Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 22
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HMS Victoria sinking
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HMS Leopard (right) fires on USS Chesapeake
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King George V and Queen Mary
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Diego Maradona
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Laura Secord warning James FitzGibbon
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| Teachers' Day in El Salvador | refimprove |
| 217 BC – Syrian Wars: Forces under [[Ptolemy IV Philopator|Template:Nowrap]] of Egypt defeated [[Antiochus III the Great|Template:Nowrap the Great]] of the Seleucid Empire at the Battle of Raphia. | refimprove |
| 168 BC – Third Macedonian War: Roman forces defeated Macedonian King Perseus at the Battle of Pydna. | more footnotes |
| 813 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Outnumbered Bulgarian forces defeated the Byzantine army at the Battle of Versinikia. | Inappropriate tone; ancient primary sources |
| 1633 – Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System by the Roman Inquisition, after which, as legend has it, he muttered under his breath, "And yet it moves." | refimprove section |
| 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally collided with and sank the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria, taking 358 crew members with her. | unreferenced section |
| 1937 – Camille Chautemps became Prime Minister of France for the third time, in the second Popular Front ministry. | refimprove |
| 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Union began its operation to expel German forces from the Belorussian SSR and eastern Poland. | refimprove section |
| 1948 – More than 800 West Indian immigrants disembarked from the British troopship Template:HMT at Tilbury, England, becoming known as the "Windrush generation". | Lots of citations needed |
| 1969 – The surface of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, U.S., caught on fire, helping to spur the environmental movement. | refimprove section, outdated |
| 1978 – Working at the U.S. Naval Observatory, American astronomer James W. Christy discovered Charon, then considered the sole moon of Pluto. | refimprove section |
| 2009 – Citing declining sales due to the emergence of digital photography, the Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome reversal film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. | refimprove section |
| Leonardo Loredan |d|1521| | refimprove section |
| * 2013 – A group of militants stormed a high-altitude Pakistani mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit-Baltistan, killing ten climbers and one local guide. | tagged for cleanup |
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- 1807 – The British warship Template:HMS pursued and attacked the American frigate Template:USS (pictured) in the belief that the crew of the latter included deserters from the Royal Navy.
- 1812 – France declared war on Russia, starting Napoleon's invasion two days later.
- 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of a forthcoming American attack, Laura Secord walked Template:Cvt from Queenston, Upper Canada, to warn British lieutenant James FitzGibbon (depicted).
- 1922 – Irish Republican Army gunmen assassinated British member of parliament Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson.
- 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.
- 1966 – Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyễn Cao Kỳ crushed the Buddhist Uprising.
- 2009 – Two Metro trains collided in Washington, D.C., killing nine people and injuring eighty others.
- 2022 – An earthquake registering 6.2 Mw caused the deaths of at least 1,000 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- Born/died this day: | Paulinus of Nola |d|431| Sayf al-Dawla |b|916| Aymon, Count of Savoy|d|1343| Lucrezia Tornabuoni |b|1427| Matthew Henry |d|1714| Matthias Vanden Gheyn |d|1785| Maximilian von Spee |b|1861| Howard Staunton |d|1874| Pascual Díaz y Barreto |b|1876| Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo |d|1937| Terttu Savola |b|1941| Meryl Streep |b|1949| Elizabeth Warren |b|1949| Cyndi Lauper |b|1953| Lola Baldwin |d|1957| Erin Brockovich|b|1960| Judy Garland |d|1969| Lee Min-ho|b|1987| Pat Nixon |d|1993|
Notes
- Capture of USS Chesapeake appears on June 1, so Chesapeake–Leopard affair should not appear in the same year
June 22: Windrush Day (United Kingdom)
- 1593 – Habsburg troops defeated a larger Ottoman force at the Battle of Sisak in the Kingdom of Croatia, triggering the Long Turkish War.
- 1911 – King George V and Queen Mary (both pictured) were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.