{"id":15192,"date":"2022-06-22T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=210343"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:16:09","slug":"22-june-on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/22-june-on-this-day-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"22 June: On this day in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Elinor Evans\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 22 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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22 June 1483\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr Ralph Shaw preached a sermon at St Paul\u2019s Cross declaring the late Edward IV<\/a>\u2019s marriage to Elizabeth Woodville<\/a> invalid, his children illegitimate and their uncle, Richard of Gloucester (later Richard III<\/a>), the rightful king.<\/p>\n

22 June 1610<\/h3>\n

William Seymour secretly married Arbella Stuart at Greenwich. News of the marriage caused great consternation at court \u2013 the pair were both direct descendants of the Tudor line, so there was the danger of a rival dynasty to that of James I. The pair were separated and imprisoned for marrying without royal permission. Both escaped from captivity and fled for the continent. Seymour managed to reach Ostend but the ship carrying Arbella was overtaken and she was taken back to the Tower<\/a>, where she remained until her death in 1615.<\/p>\n

22 June 1679\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

James, Duke of Monmouth, defeats Scottish Covenanters\u00a0at Bothwell Bridge, on the Clyde near Hamilton. The Covenanters had rebelled against what they saw as the repressive policies of the Duke of Lauderdale, Charles II<\/a>\u2019s secretary of state in Scotland.<\/p>\n

22 June 1922\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Herrin Massacre. Nineteen strikebreaking miners and guards were murdered by a mob in Herrin, Illinois. Nobody was ever convicted for the crime.<\/p>\n

22 June 1941\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Adolf Hitler<\/a> launched Operation Barbarossa<\/a>, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. In the next six months Germany occupied what is now Belarus, much of the Ukraine and surrounded Leningrad.<\/p>\n

22 June 1948: The Windrush<\/em> arrives at Tilbury<\/h3>\n

West Indian \u00e9migr\u00e9s answer Britain\u2019s call for help<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

On a grey, misty day in June 1948, a former German passenger liner arrived at Tilbury docks on the Thames Estuary \u2013 to a storm of media attention. The name of the vessel was the Empire Windrush<\/a> <\/em>and its arrival in Britain that day \u2013 after setting off from Kingston, Jamaica a month earlier \u2013 is now widely remembered as a landmark moment in modern British history.<\/p>\n

The reason for its significance lies not in the identity of the ship itself, but in the men and women it had carried across the Atlantic. The hundreds of people who disembarked from the Windrush made up one of the first large groups of West Indians to emigrate to postwar Britain \u2013 and they had made the journey because their help was needed.<\/p>\n

Three years after the end of the Second World War<\/a>, severe labour shortages were proving a drag on the British economy. In response, the government came up with the British Nationality Act 1948, giving citizens of Britain\u2019s colonies and the Commonwealth the right to settle in the UK.<\/p>\n

Some of those who stepped off the Windrush<\/em> in June 1948 had already arranged accommodation and work. Others, however, arrived with nothing to do and nowhere to live. Some 230 passengers set up home in an old air-raid shelter in Clapham before heading to the labour exchange in neighbouring Brixton. Hostility to their arrival was widespread. Those looking for homes to rent often encountered signs declaring \u201cNO BLACKS\u201d; others were beaten for befriending white people.<\/p>\n

For all that, many of the Windrush\u2019s<\/em> passengers thrived in England. None more so than Sam King, a former RAF engineer. King not only went on to become mayor of Southwark, but helped launch the forerunner of the Notting Hill Carnival. Today, more than 70 years after the Windrush\u2019s famous journey, the carnival is cherished as a celebration of Caribbean culture in London.\u00a0| Written by Helen Carr<\/strong><\/p>\n

22 June 1981: John McEnroe erupts at Wimbledon<\/h3>\n

The tennis star\u2019s meltdown leaves spectators in shock<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

John McEnroe entered the 1981 Wimbledon<\/a> championships as oneof the most famous sportsmen in the world. The year before, aged just 21, he had lost an epic final to Bj\u00f6rn Borg. With his brash, swashbuckling style, McEnroe was already a firm favourite with younger fans, earning the nickname \u201cSuperbrat\u201d. Nobody, though, could have expected what came next.<\/p>\n

McEnroe was widely expected to cruise to victory in the opening round against his fellow American Tom Gullikson \u2013 as indeed he did. But the two men had only been on court for two games when, living up to his billing, Superbrat lost his temper in spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n

When McEnroe\u2019s serve \u2013 an ace, he thought \u2013 was ruled out by the chair umpire, his passion boiled over. \u201cChalk came up all over the place,\u201d he burst out. \u201cYou can\u2019t be serious, man. You cannot be serious! That ball is on the line. Chalk flew up. It was clearly in. How can you possibly call that out?\u201d<\/p>\n

At that there were gasps from the crowd. \u201cEverybody knows it\u2019s in in the whole stadi- um, and you call it out?\u201d McEnroe screamed. \u201cYou guys are the absolute pits of the world, you know that?\u201d<\/p>\n