June 22 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 Birka to Rotterdam , broke apart in the North Sea because of improper construction. All 15 crew members drowned.From 2001
2002 – An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people2003 – 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 )– 19301902 – 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 activist1930 – 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 prelate1930 – Walter Bonatti , Italian mountaineer (d. 2011 )– 19501932 – Amrish Puri , Indian actor (d. 2005 )1932 – Prunella Scales , British actress1932 – 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 actor1936 – Hermeto Pascoal , Brazilian composer and musician1936 – 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 winner1940 – Abbas Kiarostami , Iranian film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2016 )1940 – Esther Rantzen , British television presenter1941 – 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 commentator1943 – Eumir Deodato , Brazilian pianist , composer and producer 1943 – Klaus Maria Brandauer , Austrian actor1944 – Helmut Dietl , German movie director (d. 2015 )1944 – Gérard Mourou , French physicist 1945 – Rainer Brüderle , German politician1946 – 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 producer1949 – Meryl Streep , American actress1949 – Lindsay Wagner , American actress1949 – Alan Osmond , American singer1949 – Larry Gunstrom , American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd )1949 – Elizabeth Warren , American politician1949 – Carlo Petrini , Italian journalist , activist and writer 1950 – Zenonas Petrauskas , Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009 )1950 – Adrian Nastase , Romanian politician– 19701951 – Craig Gruber , American musician (d. 2015 )1952 – Graham Greene , Canadian actor1952 – Alastair Stewart , English journalist and newsreader1953 – Cyndi Lauper , American singer1953 – Wim Eijk , Dutch archbishop 1954 – Wolfgang Becker , German film director and writer1954 – Freddie Prinze , American actor and comedian (d. 1977 )1956 – Wang Guozhen , Chinese poet (d. 2015 )1956 – Shah Mehmood Qureshi , Pakistani politician1956 – Derek Forbes , Scottish musician (Simple Minds )1957 – Danny Baker , English comedy writer, journalist, DJ and screenwriter1957 – Arkadi Ghukasyan , former President of Nagorno-Karabakh 1958 – Bruce Campbell , American actor1960 – Erin Brockovich , American activist1960 – Tracy Pollan , American actress1961 – Jimmy Somerville , Scottish singer-songwriter and musician 1962 – Bobby Gillespie , Scottish singer and musician1962 – Clyde Drexler , former NBA player1962 – Campino , German singer1962 – Emmanuelle Seigner , French actress and musician1963 – Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi , Japanese sumo wrestler1964 – Amy Brenneman , American actress1964 – Miroslav Kadlec , Czech footballer 1964 – Dan Brown , American writer (The Da Vinci Code )1964 – John Penrose , English politician1965 – Uwe Boll , German director1965 – L'ubomir Moravcik , Slovakian footballer 1968 – Darrell Armstrong , American basketball player1968 – Melinda Nadj Abonji , Hungarian-Swiss writer and musician1970 – Michel Elefteriades , Greek-Lebanese politician and businessman1970 – Steven Page , Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies )– 19851973 – Carson Daly , American talk show host, MTV VJ 1974 – Jo Cox , British politician (d. 2016 )1974 – Joseph Vijay , Indian actor1974 – Sabina Nore , Austrian artist 1974 – Donald Faison , American actor1976 – Gordon Moakes , English singer and musician1978 – Champ Bailey , American football player1978 – Dan Wheldon , British IRL race car driver (d. 2011 )1979 – Jai Rodriguez , American television personality1979 – Leire Martinez , Basque singer and songwriter 1980 – Ilya Bryzgalov , Russian ice hockey player1981 – 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 model1984 – Janko Tipsarevic , Serbian tennis player1984 – Giorgos Apostolidis , Greek basketball player1984 – Dustin Johnson , American golfer 1984 – Ruben Ivan Martinez , Spanish footballer 1985 – Sofaklis Schortsanitis , Greek basketball player1985 – Rosa Kato , Italian-Japanese model and actress 1985 – Scott MacIntyre , American singer-songwriter and pianist From 1986
1986 – Dwayne Anderson , American basketball player1986 – Ramin Ott , American Samoan footballer 1987 – Nikita Rukavytsya , Ukrainian-Australian footballer 1987 – Danny Green , American basketball player1987 – Cory Gunz , American rapper and songwriter 1987 – Lee Min Ho , South Korean actor, model and singer1988 – Portia Doubleday , American actress1989 – Jung Yong-hwa , South Korean musician, singer and songwriter1989 – Andreas Mikkelsen , Norwegian rally driver1989 – Karla Crome , British actress1989 – Cédric Mongongu , Congolese footballer 1990 – Sebastian Jung , German footballer 1991 – Giuseppe De Luca , Italian footballer 1991 – Katie Jarvis , English actress1991 – Emil Larsen , Danish footballer 1993 – Caydee Denney , American figure skater 1993 – Loris Karius , German footballer 2006 – Anna Hursey , Welsh table tennis playerDeaths
Up to 1950
431 – Paulinus of Nola , Latin poet1276 – 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 , Kazakhstan I folk singer (b. 1846 )– 20001956 – 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 officer2019 – Stepan Shakaryan , Azerbaijani-Armenian composer (b. 1935 )