On this day: June 22

Events on June 22

• 168 BC Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War. Wikipedia
• 813 Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian. Wikipedia
• 1527 Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta. Wikipedia
• 1555 A Mughal army under Humayun and Bairam Khan defeats an Afghan army under Sikandar Shah Suri in the battle of Sirhind, allowing Humayun to capture Delhi and reestablish the Mughal Empire in India. Wikipedia
• 1593 Habsburg troops defeated a larger Ottoman force at the Battle of Sisak in the Kingdom of Croatia, triggering the Long Turkish War. Wikipedia
• 1593 Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans. Wikipedia
• 1633 The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy. Wikipedia
• 1774 The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America. Wikipedia
• 1783 A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France. Wikipedia
• 1813 War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a thirty kilometres (19 mi) journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon. Wikipedia
• 1897 British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged. Wikipedia
• 1940 World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918. Wikipedia
• 1941 World War II: German minister of foreign affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop presented a declaration of war to the Soviet ambassador Vladimir Dekanozov in Berlin. Wikipedia
• 1941 World War II: As Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation. Wikipedia
• 1941 World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Wikipedia
• 1942 World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk. Wikipedia
• 1944 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill. Wikipedia
• 1948 King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India. Wikipedia
• 1962 Air France Flight 117 crashes on approach to Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, killing 112 people. Wikipedia
• 1969 The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Wikipedia
• 1986 The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup. Wikipedia
• 1990 Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin. Wikipedia
• 2000 Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people. Wikipedia
• 2002 An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response. Wikipedia
• 2012 Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco. Wikipedia
• 2025 The United States conducts airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Wikipedia

Born on June 22

• 1000 Robert I, duke of Normandy (died 1035) Wikipedia
• 1373 Elizabeth Bonifacia, heiress of Poland (died 1399) Wikipedia
• 1767 Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher, academic, and politician, Interior Minister of Prussia (died 1835). Wikipedia
• 1805 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and politician (died 1872). Wikipedia
• 1837 Paul Morphy, American chess player (died 1884) Wikipedia
• 1850 Ignác Goldziher, Hungarian scholar of Islam (died 1921) Wikipedia
• 1856 Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist (died 1925). Wikipedia
• 1864 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and academic (died 1909) Wikipedia
• 1898 Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss soldier and author (died 1970) Wikipedia
• 1906 Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002) Wikipedia
• 1910 Konrad Zuse, German computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer (died 1995) Wikipedia
• 1936 Kris Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2024) Wikipedia
• 1939 Ada Yonath, Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (died 2026) Wikipedia
• 1940 Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016) Wikipedia
• 1943 J. Michael Kosterlitz, British-American physicist Wikipedia
• 1949 Meryl Streep, American actress Wikipedia
• 1949 Elizabeth Warren, American academic and politician Wikipedia
• 1953 Cyndi Lauper, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress Wikipedia
• 1964 Dan Brown, American author and academic Wikipedia
• 1966 Joanna Kołaczkowska, Polish cabaret performer (died 2025) Wikipedia
• 1987 Lee Min-ho, South Korean actor, singer, model, creative director and businessman Wikipedia
• 1996 Rodri, Spanish footballer Wikipedia

Died on June 22

• 207 BC Hasdrubal Barca, Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War (born 245 BC) Wikipedia
• 1101 Roger I of Sicily, Norman nobleman (born 1031) Wikipedia
• 1276 Innocent V, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1225) Wikipedia
• 1925 Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic (born 1849) Wikipedia
• 1931 Armand Fallières, French politician, 9th President of France (born 1841) Wikipedia
• 1936 Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1882) Wikipedia
• 1965 David O. Selznick, American screenwriter and producer (born 1902) Wikipedia
• 1969 Judy Garland, American actress and singer (born 1922) Wikipedia
• 1987 Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (born 1899) Wikipedia
• 1990 Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908) Wikipedia
• 1993 Pat Nixon, American educator, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1912) Wikipedia
• 2008 George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author (born 1937) Wikipedia
• 2015 James Horner, American composer and conductor (born 1953) Wikipedia
• 2023 Harry Markowitz, American Nobel economist (born 1927) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Aaron of Aleth Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Alban, first recorded Martyr in Britain (commemoration, Anglicanism) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Pope Innocent V Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Eusebius of Samosata (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: John Fisher (Catholic Church) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Nicetas of Remesiana Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Paulinus of Nola Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Thomas More (Catholic Church) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: June 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia) Wikipedia
• Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus) Wikipedia
• Father's Day (Guernsey, Isle of Man, and Jersey) Wikipedia
• Teachers' Day (El Salvador) Wikipedia
• Windrush Day (UK) Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “June 22” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.