On this day: 22 June
Events, births and deaths on 22 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
- Deaths · Arnaldo Pomodoro
- Deaths · Franco Testa
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Rachid Solh
- Births · George Englund
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1101 · Deaths · Roger I of Sicily
- 947 · Deaths · Qian Hongzuo
Events · 28
- 217 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Raphia — 217 BCE battle
- 168 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Pydna — battle of the Third Macedonian War
- 431(Julian date)First Council of Ephesus — ecumenical council in Ephesus in June–July 431, convened by Emperor Theodosius II
- 813(Julian date)Battle of Versinikia — 813 battle
- 1527(Julian date)Jakarta — capital and largest city of Indonesia
- 1555(Julian date)Battle of Sirhind — 1555 battle between the Mughal and Suri empires
- 1593Battle of Sisak — battle fought on 22 June 1593
- 1807Chesapeake–Leopard Affair — British–US June 1807 incident
- 1908Red Flag Incident — political rally in Tokyo on 22 June 1908, in which the release of Koken Yamaguchi from prison was met with by crowd waving red flags; the police suppressed the demonstration, and 10 activists were arrested
- 1911coronation of George V and Mary — formal ceremony crowning George V and Mary in 1911
- 1918Hammond circus train wreck — 1918 train wreck in Indiana, USA
- 1940Armistice of 22 June 1940 — armistice between France and Nazi Germany in World War II
- 1941Operation Barbarossa — invasion of the Soviet Union by the Nazi German-led Axis powers in Europe
- 1941Eastern Front — 1941–1945 World War II theater
- 1944Operation Bagration — 1944 large Soviet military offensive in WW2
- 1962Air France Flight 117 — 1962 aviation accident
- 1965Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea — treaty signed on June 22, 1965, establishing basic diplomatic relations between Japan and South Korea
- 1986The hand of God — goal scored by Diego Maradona
- 1986Argentina v England 1986 — 1986 FIFA World Cup Match
- 2000Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 — aviation incident; also the deadliest of a Xian Y-7
- 20022002 Buin Zahra earthquake — earthquake in Qazvin Province, Iran
- 20072007 Elie, Manitoba tornado — Powerful Tornado that impacted Elie, Manitoba
- 2008Global Anglican Future Conference — Anglican realignment conference series, 2008-
- 2009June 2009 Washington Metro train collision — collision on the Red Line of the Washington Metro
- 20122012 Turkish F-4 Phantom shootdown — event in which the Syrian military shot down a Turkish aircraft
- 2015
- 2022June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake — earthquake in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region
- 20252025 United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites — Bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States (2025)
Births · 60
- 1757George Vancouver — English naval explorer (1757–1798)
- 1767Wilhelm von Humboldt — Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
- 1805Giuseppe Mazzini — Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher
- 1837Paul Morphy — US chess player (1837–1884)
- 1850Ignaz Goldziher — Hungarian orientalist, scholar (1850-1921)
- 1856H. Rider Haggard — English adventure novelist (1856–1925)
- 1861Maximilian von Spee — German admiral (1861–1914)
- 1864Hermann Minkowski — German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)
- 1871William McDougall — British psychologist (1871–1938)
- 1885Milan Vidmar — Slovenian chess player (1885–1962)
- 1887Julian Huxley — British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975)
- 1892Robert Ritter von Greim — German field marshal (1892–1945)
- 1897Norbert Elias — German sociologist (1897–1990)
- 1898Erich Maria Remarque — German-born novelist (1898–1970)
- 1903John Dillinger — American bank robber
- 1906Billy Wilder — Austrian and American filmmaker (1906–2002)
- 1910Konrad Zuse — German computer scientist and engineer (1910 - 1995)
- 1928Ralph Waite — American actor (1928–2014)
- 1932Amrish Puri — Indian actor (1932–2005)
- 1932Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari — Queen consort of Iran from 1951 to 1958
- 1933Dianne Feinstein — American politician (1933–2023)
- 1936Kris Kristofferson — American country singer, songwriter and actor (1936-2024)
- 1939Ada Yonath — Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate (1939–2026)
- 1940Abbas Kiarostami — Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer (1940-2016)
- 1941Ed Bradley — American journalist (1941–2006)
Deaths · 60
- 431(Julian date)Paulinus of Nola — Christian bishop and saint
- 910(Julian date)Gebhard — Duke of Lorraine
- 1101(Julian date)Roger I of Sicily — Grand Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101
- 1276(Julian date)Innocent V — 185th Pope of the Catholic Church
- 1343(Julian date)Aymon, Count of Savoy — Count of Savoy
- 1429(Julian date)Jamshīd al-Kāshī — Persian astronomer and mathematician
- 1535(Julian date)John Fisher — English Roman Catholic cardinal and saint (c. 1469–1535)
- 1664Katherine Philips — Anglo-Welsh poet and translator (1632–1664)
- 1699Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet — English merchant and politician (1630-1699)
- 1714Matthew Henry — Theologian from Wales; (1662-1714)
- 1874Howard Staunton — English chess master and Shakespearean scholar (1810-1874)
- 1892Ossian Bonnet — French mathematician (1819–1892)
- 1905Francis Lubbock — Governor of Texas, 1857-1859
- 1925Felix Klein — German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)
- 1928A. B. Frost — American artist; (1851-1928)
- 1931Armand Fallières — 9th president of France (1841–1931)
- 1935Szymon Askenazy — Polish historian and statesman (1866-1935)
- 1936Moritz Schlick — German philosopher (1882-1936)
- 1938C. J. Dennis — Australian poet (1876–1938)
- 1945Mitsuru Ushijima — general in the Imperial Japanese Army (1887–1945)
- 1956Walter de la Mare — English poet and fiction writer (1873–1956)
- 1965David O. Selznick — American film producer (1902–1965)
- 1966Thaddeus Shideler — American hurdler
- 1967Li Lisan — Chinese politician (1899-1967)
- 1969Judy Garland — American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian (1922–1969)
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