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, 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.