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This day in history: 22 June

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386 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 22 June.
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2025: The United States conducts airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.

Holidays and observances

Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)

Christian feast day: Aaron of Aleth

Christian feast day: Alban, first recorded Martyr in Britain (commemoration, Anglicanism)

Christian feast day: Blessed Pope Innocent V

Christian feast day: Eusebius of Samosata (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: John Fisher (Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: June 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Nicetas of Remesiana

Christian feast day: Paulinus of Nola

Christian feast day: Thomas More (Catholic Church)

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus)

Father's Day (Guernsey, Isle of Man, and Jersey)

Events

2025The United States conducts airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.

2022An earthquake occurs in eastern Afghanistan resulting in over 1,000 deaths.

2015The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are killed and 18 people are injured.

2012A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.

2012Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.

2009A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others ar

2007The small town of Elie, Manitoba is hit by Canada's most intense tornado on record.

2002An 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.

2000Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.

1990Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.

1986The 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 late

1984Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.

1979Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.

1978Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.

1969The 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.

1966Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Buddhist Uprising.

1965The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed.

1962Air France Flight 117 crashes on approach to Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, killing 112 people.

1948King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India.

1948The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.

1945World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end with an American flag-raising ceremony.

1944U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.

1944World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.

1942The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by U.S. Congress.

1942World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.

1941World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.

1940World 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.

1922British Army Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is killed by the Irish Republican Army helping to spark the Irish Civil War.

1918The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.

1911George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1911Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.

1907The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.

1898Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26 km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two

1897British 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.

1893The 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.

1870The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.

1839Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.

1813War 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.

1812France declares war on Russia, starting Napoleon's invasion.

1807In the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.

Born on this day

2006Zépiqueno Redmond, Dutch footballer

2001Luciano Gondou, Argentine footballer

1999Sam Retford, Australian-English actor

1996Mikel Merino, Spanish footballer

1996Rodri, Spanish footballer

1994Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus, Brazilian footballer

1994Marnus Labuschagne, South African-Australian cricketer

1994Sébastien Haller, French-Ivorian footballer

1993Danny Ward, Welsh footballer

1993Loris Karius, German footballer

1992Harry Reid, British actor

1992Ura Kazuki, Japanese sumo wrestler

1991Hugo Mallo, Spanish footballer

1990Sebastian Jung, German footballer

1989Cédric Mongongu, Congolese footballer

1989Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor

1988Omri Casspi, Israeli basketball player

1987Danny Green, American basketball player

1987Lee Min-ho, South Korean actor, singer, model, creative director and businessman

1987Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer

1985Thomas Leuluai, New Zealand rugby league player

1984Dustin Johnson, American golfer

1984Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player

1984Jerome Taylor, Jamaican cricketer

1984Rubén Iván Martínez, Spanish footballer

1983Allar Raja, Estonian rower

1982Andoni Iraola, Spanish footballer and manager

1982Ian Kinsler, American baseball player

1982Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model

1981Aquivaldo Mosquera, Colombian footballer

1981Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player (died 2017)

1980Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player

1980Stephanie Jacobsen, Hong Kong-Australian actress

1979Joey Cheek, American speed skater

1979Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist

1978Champ Bailey, American football player

1978Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (died 2011)

1975Urmas Reinsalu, Estonian academic and politician, 28th Estonian Minister of Defence

1974Donald Faison, American actor

1974Jo Cox, British politician (died 2016)

Died on this day

2025Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor (born 1926)

2023Harry Markowitz, American Nobel economist (born 1927)

2022Bruton Smith, American racetrack promoter (born 1927)

2022Yves Coppens, French anthropologist (born 1934)

2018Vinnie Paul, American musician (born 1964)

2017Mao Kobayashi, Japanese newscaster and actress (born 1982)

2017Quett Masire, Botswanan politician (born 1926)

2015James Horner, American composer and conductor (born 1953)

2014Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American author and academic (born 1945)

2014Rama Narayanan, Indian director and producer (born 1949)

2013Allan Simonsen, Danish race car driver (born 1978)

2013Henning Larsen, Danish architect, designed the Copenhagen Opera House (born 1925)

2012Juan Luis Galiardo, Spanish actor and producer (born 1922)

2011Coşkun Özarı, Turkish footballer and coach (born 1931)

2008Dody Goodman, American actress and dancer (born 1914)

2008George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author (born 1937)

2008Natalia Bekhtereva, Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (born 1924)

2007Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (born 1964)

2004Bob Bemer, American computer scientist and engineer (born 1920)

2004Mattie Stepanek, American poet and author (born 1990)

2003Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian war novelist (born 1924)

1997Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist and politician (born 1919)

1997Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (born 1956)

1995Al Hansen, American sculptor and author (born 1927)

1995Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter (born 1931)

1993Pat Nixon, American educator, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1912)

1990Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)

1988Dennis Day, American singer and actor (born 1916)

1987Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (born 1899)

1984Joseph Losey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)

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“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”

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