June 22

Events
Up to 1950
217 BC Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
168 BC Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
816 Pope Stephen IV is elected.
1593 Battle of Sisak: Slovene - Croat troops defeat the Turks.
1622 Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch-Portuguese War.
1633 The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
1634 Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn marries Saskia van Uylenburgh.
1675 The Greenwich Royal Observatory is founded.
1774 The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules for governance of the colony of Quebec in what was then British North America.
1783 The poisonous cloud from the erupting Laki volcanic crater in Iceland reaches Le Havre, on France's English Channel coast.
1813 War of 1812: After learning of American plans to carry out a surprise attack on the Beavers Dams, Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn James FitzGibbon.
1825 British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1866 Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
1870 The United States Congress creates the United States Department of Justice.
1893 The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
1898 Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
1906 The Flag of Sweden is adopted as the country's official national flag.
1907 The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
1911 George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII, who had died in 1910.
1918 The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 people and injures 127 in Hammond, Indiana.
1919 Law student Jens Oliver Lisberg first raises the current Flag of the Faroe Islands in the village of Famjin.
1922 Herrin massacre: 19 strikeboarders and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
1936 Austrian philosopher Moritz Schlick is murdered by a former student at the University of Vienna.
1937 Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France.
1940 France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
1941 Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
1941 First Croatian anti-fascist armed unit (partisans) founded near Sisak, Croatia.
1941 June coup in Lithuania against the Soviets starts.
1942 Erwin Rommel is promoted to the rank of Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk, in Libya.
1944 Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
1950 The longship replica Ormen Friske , en route from Birka to Rotterdam, broke apart in the North Sea because of improper construction. All 15 crew members drowned.
1951 2000
1955 The Disney film Lady and the Tramp has its premiere.
1957 The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time.
1962 An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113
1963 Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.
1964 Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc) is officially declared "President for Life" in Haiti.
1974 In Hamburg, during the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the East Germany national football team defeats the West Germany national football team 1-0 in a Group Stage match, with the goal scored by Jurgen Sparwasser.
1976 Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
1978 Pluto's moon Charon is discovered.
1984 William Schnoebelen and his wife Sharon are "saved" by a tract from Chick Publications. There is some debate over the reliability of this, however.
1986 Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scores the Hand of God goal and the "Goal of the Century" against England during the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
1989 Dublin City University and University of Limerick are established in Ireland.
1990 Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is removed.
1993 Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, California, United States is injured by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber.
1996 The Quake computer game is released.
2000 A ferry sinking on the Yangtze River in Sichuan province, China, kills 131 people.
From 2001
2002 An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people
2003 The largest hailstone ever recorded falls from a thunderstorm in Aurora, Nebraska, United States.
2004 In Belgium, Marc Dutroux is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and murdering young girls.
2006 At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo of Brazil equals Gerd Muller's overall World Cup goal-scoring record of 14. He beats the record five days later.
2008 Filipino ferry Princess of the Stars runs aground in a typhoon, killing around 800 people.
2009 Two Washington, DC metro trains collide, killing 9 people.
2010 The longest match in professional tennis history begins at Wimbledon, in which John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the fifth, and deciding, set two days later.
2012 President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and is succeeded by Federico Franco.
2012 A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter airplane is shot down by Syrian Armed Forces, killing both pilots on board. This worsens the already strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
2019 Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is elected President of Mauritania, in what would be the country's first peaceful transfer of power since gaining independence from France in 1960.
2022 June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake occurs, killing at least 1000 people.
Births
Up to 1900
662 Emperor Ruizong of Tang of China (d. 716)
1000 Robert I, Duke of Normandy (d. 1035)
1680 Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
1684 Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
1738 Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
1757 George Vancouver, English navigator, naval surveyor (d. 1798)
1767 Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
1792 James Baeumont Neilson, Scottish inventor (d. 1865)
1805 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian jurist and activist (d. 1872)
1820 James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (d. 1909)
1821 Theodor Mobius, German philologist (d. 1890)
1830 Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, professor and composer (d. 1915)
1837 Ernst Ziller, German architect (d. 1923)
1837 Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
1845 Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)
1856 H. Rider Haggard, writer (d. 1925)
1861 Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
1864 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)
1871 Arthur Wynne, English-American inventor of the Crossword (d. 1945)
1871 William MacDougall, English psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
1874 Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, shooter, gymnast and athlete (d. 1930)
1874 Walter F. Otto, German scholar (d. 1958)
1876 Gwen John, Welsh painter (d. 1939)
1879 John J. Dempsey, American politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico (d. 1958)
1880 Johannes Drost, Dutch backstroke swimmer (d. 1954)
1884 James Rector, American sprinter (d. 1949)
1885 Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
1887 Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
1888 Harold Ritz Burton, 45th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1964)
1890 Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician (d. 1970)
1892 Emil Telmanyi, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 1988)
1896 Leonard W. Murray, Canadian admiral (d. 1971)
1897 Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)
1898 Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
1899 Michal Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)
1899 Artur Kukk, Estonian wrestler (d. 1958)
1899 Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer (d. 1980)
1900 Oskar Fischinger, German animator, filmmaker and painter (d. 1967)
1901 1930
1902 Marguerite De La Motte, American movie actress (d. 1950)
1903 Carl Hubbell, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
1903 John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer and aviator (d. 2001)
1906 Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (d. 2002)
1907 Marta Colvin, Chilean sculptor (d. 1995)
1909 Buddy Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)
1909 Katherine Dunham, American dancer (d. 2006)
1909 Mike Todd, American movie and theatre producer (d. 1958)
1910 John Hunt, Indian-British mountaineer (d. 1998)
1910 Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
1910 Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)
1912 Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
1919 Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
1920 Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (d. 1986)
1920 Jovito Salonga, Filipino politician (d. 2016)
1921 Joseph Papp, director, producer (d. 1991)
1922 Osvaldo Fattori, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
1924 Geza Vermes, Hungarian-British scholar (d. 2013)
1926 Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer and filmmaker (d. 2015)
1926 Rachid Solh, Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014)
1928 Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 2010)
1928 Ralph Waite, American actor (d. 2014)
1929 Bruce Kent, British social activist
1930 Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
1930 Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and young victim of crime (d. 1932)
1930 John Joseph Scanlan, Roman Catholic prelate
1930 Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer (d. 2011)
1931 1950
1932 Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
1932 Prunella Scales, British actress
1932 Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Queen Consort of Iran (d. 2001)
1933 Dianne Feinstein, United States Senator and former Mayor of San Francisco
1933 Libor Pesek, Czech conductor
1936 Kris Kristofferson, American country music singer, songwriter and actor
1936 Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian composer and musician
1936 Izatullo Khayoyev, Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2015)
1937 Bernie McGann, American musician (d. 2013)
1938 Virginio De Paoli, Italian footballer (d. 2009)
1939 Robert Kramer, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1939 Ada Yonath, Israeli chemist, Nobel Prize winner
1940 Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1940 Esther Rantzen, British television presenter
1941 Marco Aurelio Garcia, Brazilian politician (d. 2017)
1941 Ed Bradley, American journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent (d. 2006)
1943 Brit Hume, American FOX News anchor and commentator
1943 Eumir Deodato, Brazilian pianist, composer and producer
1943 Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
1944 Helmut Dietl, German movie director (d. 2015)
1944 Gerard Mourou, French physicist
1945 Rainer Bruderle, German politician
1946 Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1946 Jozef Oleksy, Polish politician (d. 2015)
1947 Octavia E. Butler, American science fiction author (d. 2006)
1947 David Lander, American actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
1947 David Landau, British-Israeli journalist (d. 2015)
1947 Bruno Latour, French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist
1947 Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana (d. 2020)
1948 Todd Rundgren, American singer, songwriter and recording producer
1949 Meryl Streep, American actress
1949 Lindsay Wagner, American actress
1949 Alan Osmond, American singer
1949 Larry Gunstrom, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949 Elizabeth Warren, American politician
1949 Carlo Petrini, Italian journalist, activist and writer
1950 Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
1950 Adrian Nastase, Romanian politician
1951 1970
1951 Craig Gruber, American musician (d. 2015)
1952 Graham Greene, Canadian actor
1952 Alastair Stewart, English journalist and newsreader
1953 Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1953 Wim Eijk, Dutch archbishop
1954 Wolfgang Becker, German film director and writer
1954 Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
1956 Wang Guozhen, Chinese poet (d. 2015)
1956 Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani politician
1956 Derek Forbes, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)
1957 Danny Baker, English comedy writer, journalist, DJ and screenwriter
1957 Arkadi Ghukasyan, former President of Nagorno-Karabakh
1958 Bruce Campbell, American actor
1960 Erin Brockovich, American activist
1960 Tracy Pollan, American actress
1961 Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician
1962 Bobby Gillespie, Scottish singer and musician
1962 Clyde Drexler, former NBA player
1962 Campino, German singer
1962 Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress and musician
1963 Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
1964 Amy Brenneman, American actress
1964 Miroslav Kadlec, Czech footballer
1964 Dan Brown, American writer (The Da Vinci Code)
1964 John Penrose, English politician
1965 Uwe Boll, German director
1965 L'ubomir Moravcik, Slovakian footballer
1968 Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player
1968 Melinda Nadj Abonji, Hungarian-Swiss writer and musician
1970 Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician and businessman
1970 Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
1971 1985
1973 Carson Daly, American talk show host, MTV VJ
1974 Jo Cox, British politician (d. 2016)
1974 Joseph Vijay, Indian actor
1974 Sabina Nore, Austrian artist
1974 Donald Faison, American actor
1976 Gordon Moakes, English singer and musician
1978 Champ Bailey, American football player
1978 Dan Wheldon, British IRL race car driver (d. 2011)
1979 Jai Rodriguez, American television personality
1979 Leire Martinez, Basque singer and songwriter
1980 Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
1981 Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017)
1981 Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist (Editors)
1981 Monty Oum, American animator (d. 2015)
1982 Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
1984 Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player
1984 Giorgos Apostolidis, Greek basketball player
1984 Dustin Johnson, American golfer
1984 Ruben Ivan Martinez, Spanish footballer
1985 Sofaklis Schortsanitis, Greek basketball player
1985 Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
1985 Scott MacIntyre, American singer-songwriter and pianist
From 1986
1986 Dwayne Anderson, American basketball player
1986 Ramin Ott, American Samoan footballer
1987 Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer
1987 Danny Green, American basketball player
1987 Cory Gunz, American rapper and songwriter
1987 Lee Min Ho, South Korean actor, model and singer
1988 Portia Doubleday, American actress
1989 Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean musician, singer and songwriter
1989 Andreas Mikkelsen, Norwegian rally driver
1989 Karla Crome, British actress
1989 Cedric Mongongu, Congolese footballer
1990 Sebastian Jung, German footballer
1991 Giuseppe De Luca, Italian footballer
1991 Katie Jarvis, English actress
1991 Emil Larsen, Danish footballer
1993 Caydee Denney, American figure skater
1993 Loris Karius, German footballer
2006 Anna Hursey, Welsh table tennis player
Deaths
Up to 1950
431 Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet
1276 Pope Innocent V (b. 1225)
1429 Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1535 John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill (b. 1469)
1691 Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
1699 Josiah Child, English merchant, economist and politician (b. 1630)
1727 King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1813 Anton Graff, Swiss painter (b. 1736)
1868 Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801)
1872 Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentine general (b. 1795)
1874 Howard Staunton, English chess player (b. 1810)
1892 Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
1896 Benjamin Bristow, American politician (b. 1832)
1905 Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1913 Stefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
1925 Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1931 Armand Fallieres, President of France (b. 1841)
1933 Henry Birkin, English racing driver (b. 1896)
1935 Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
1936 Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (b. 1882)
1942 August Froehlich, German priest and Resistance activist (b. 1891)
1945 Isamu Cho, Japanese general (b. 1895)
1945 Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (b. 1887)
1945 Jambyl, KazakhstanI folk singer (b. 1846)
1951 2000
1956 Walter de la Mare, English author and poet (b. 1873)
1959 Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
1961 Maria of Yugoslavia, Romanian-born Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
1965 David O. Selznick, American movie producer (b. 1902)
1969 Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
1974 Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
1977 Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1978 Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914)
1979 Louis Chiron, Monegasque racing driver (b. 1899)
1987 Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
1988 Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
1990 Ilya Frank, Russian physicist (b. 1908)
1992 Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
1993 Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
1995 Al Hansen, American artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck (b. 1927)
1995 Yves Congar, French theologian and cardinal (b. 1904)
1997 Gerard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
From 2001
2001 Luis Carniglia, Argentine footballer and coach (b. 1917)
2002 Darryl Kile, American Major League baseball player (b. 1968)
2002 Ann Landers, American writer (b. 1918)
2004 Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
2004 Bob Bemer, American computer pioneer (b. 1920)
2008 George Carlin, American comedian and actor (b. 1937)
2013 Allan Simonsen, Danish racing driver (b. 1978)
2013 Henning Larsen, Danish architect (b. 1925)
2013 Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish politician (b. 1945)
2014 Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American university professor and writer (b. 1945)
2015 Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (b. 1941)
2015 James Horner, American film score composer (b. 1953)
2015 James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, Scottish nobleman (b. 1929)
2016 Amjad Sabri, Pakistani singer (b. 1970)
2016 Joan Acker, American sociologist (b. 1924)
2016 John William Ashe, Antiguan diplomat (b. 1954)
2016 Vasily Bochkaryov, Russian politician (b. 1949)
2016 Jim Boyd, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
2016 Marc Allan Feldman, American physician and politician (b. 1960)
2016 David J. Hickson, British theorist (b. 1931)
2016 Harry Rabinowitz, British composer and conductor (b. 1916)
2017 Gunter Gabriel, German singer, musician and composer (b. 1942)
2017 Frank Kush, American football player (b. 1929)
2017 Keith Loneker, American football player and actor (b. 1971)
2017 Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (b. 1925)
2017 Nikolai Zhugan, Soviet-Russian pilot (b. 1917)
2018 Geoff Case, Australian rules football player (b. 1935)
2018 Nahum Korzhavin, Russian-American poet (b. 1925)
2018 Dick Leitsch, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1935)
2018 Deanna Lund, American actress (b. 1937)
2018 Geoffrey Oryema, Ugandan-born French guitarist (b. 1953)
2018 Vinnie Paul, American rock music drummer (b. 1964)
2018 Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (b. 1926)
2018 Sally Pierone, American art director and psychiatrist (b. 1921)
2019 Judith Krantz, American author (b. 1928)
2019 Leevi Lehto, Finnish poet, translator and programmer (b. 1951)
2019 Se'are Mekonnen, Ethiopian army officer
2019 Stepan Shakaryan, Azerbaijani-Armenian composer (b. 1935)
Holidays
Roman Catholic Church: Feast day of Thomas More
Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)
Teachers' Day (El Salvador)
Days of the year