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June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days remaining until the end of the year.

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 Archived 2005-08-17 at the Wayback Machine, 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 – François 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 Jürgen 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 Müller'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 Möbius, 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 – Géza 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 Aurélio 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 – Gérard Mourou, French physicist
• 1945 – Rainer Brüderle, German politician
• 1946 – Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
• 1946 – Józef 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 – Cédric 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 Fallières, 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 – Gérard 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)