On this day: June 22

Events on June 22

• 217 BC Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Wikipedia
• 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
• 431 The Council of Ephesus, the third ecumenical council, begins, dealing with Nestorianism. Wikipedia
• 816 Election of pope Stephen IV following the death of pope Leo III earlier that month. 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
• 1807 The British warship HMS Leopard pursued and attacked the American frigate USS Chesapeake in the belief that the crew of the latter included deserters from the Royal Navy. Wikipedia
• 1812 France declared war on Russia, starting Napoleon's invasion two days later. Wikipedia
• 1813 War of 1812: After learning of a forthcoming American attack, Laura Secord walked 20 mi (32 km) from Queenston, Upper Canada, to warn British lieutenant James FitzGibbon. Wikipedia
• 1870 The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress. Wikipedia
• 1911 King George V and Queen Mary were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London. Wikipedia
• 1922 Irish Republican Army gunmen assassinated British member of parliament Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. 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
• 1944 World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre. Wikipedia
• 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end with an American flag-raising ceremony. Wikipedia
• 1966 Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyễn Cao Kỳ crushed the Buddhist Uprising. Wikipedia
• 1978 Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy. Wikipedia
• 1979 Former British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him. Wikipedia
• 1984 Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark. Wikipedia
• 2002 A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck northwestern Iran, killing at least 230 people and injuring 1,300 others; the official response, perceived to be slow, later caused widespread public anger. Wikipedia
• 2009 Two Metro trains collided in Washington, D.C., killing nine people and injuring eighty others. Wikipedia
• 2012 Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco. Wikipedia
• 2022 An earthquake registering 6.2 Mw caused the deaths of at least 1,000 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Wikipedia
• 2023 Irish broadcaster RTÉ announced that between 2017 and 2022 it had paid €345,000 more than had been previously disclosed to presenter Ryan Tubridy. Wikipedia
• 2025 The United States conducts airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Wikipedia

Born on June 22

• 1373 Elizabeth Bonifacia, heiress of Poland (died 1399) Wikipedia
• 1757 George Vancouver, English lieutenant and explorer (died 1798). 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
• 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
• 1947 Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian lieutenant and politician, President of Ghana (died 2020) 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
• 1987 Lee Min-ho, South Korean actor, singer, model, creative director and businessman Wikipedia
• 1996 Rodri, Spanish footballer Wikipedia
• 1996 Mikel Merino, Spanish footballer Wikipedia

Died on June 22

• 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
• 2017 Quett Masire, Botswanan politician (born 1926) 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

Sources

• Wikipedia — “June 22” — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/June 22” — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikidata — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

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 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for June 22 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.