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June 22 in history

224 sourced entries recorded on June 22, from 217 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 217 BCEEgyptian native hoplites under Ptolemy IV crush the Seleucid army under Antiochus III in the Battle of Raphia near Gaza. The realization of their military importance leads to demands by native Egyptians for greater privileges and so to the development of racial difficulties which will weaken the Ptolemy dynasty in the future.source
  • 168 BCEThe Battle of Pydna (in southern Macedonia) gives Roman forces under Lucius Aemilius Paulus a crushing victory over Perseus and his Macedonian forces, thus ending the Third Macedonian War. Perseus is captured by the Romans and will spend the rest of his life in captivity at Alba Fucens, near Rome.source
  • 813Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars, led by Krum, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire, defeat Emperor Michael I near Edirne (modern Turkey). The Byzantine army (26,000 men) is destroyed by a counter-attack of Bulgarian heavy cavalry, while trapped in the valley. Krum captures the Byzantine camp and a rich prize, including gold and weaponry.source
  • 910Battle of Rednitz: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine). After the battle Louis IV, together with the East Frankish duchies Franconia, Lotharingia, Bavaria and Saxony, agrees to pay tribute to the Hungarian state.source
  • 1301Nicola Boccasini, who will become Pope Benedict XI in 1303, begins his duties as the Roman Catholic apostolic legate to Hungary, having been appointed as the personal representative of Pope Boniface VIII.source
  • 1325King Robert issues a commission to enquire into and report on the rights that had been granted by his predecessors to the citizens of Dundee after they had appealed to him to re-establish those rights.source
  • 1325Ismail, Sultan of Granada, begins the siege of Martos in the Spanish Kingdom of Castile, but loses control of his troops, who pillage the city after two weeks.source
  • 1362An alliance is formed between England and Castile.source
  • 1372The Kingdom of France and the Crown of Castile defeat the Kingdom of England in the Battle of La Rochelle, and France gains control of the English Channel for the first time since 1340.source
  • 1402Battle of Bryn Glas: Welsh rebels under Owain Glyndŵr defeat the English on the England/Wales border. The Welsh capture Edmund Mortimer, son of the 3rd Earl, who defects to the Welsh cause, on 30 November marrying Owain's daughter Catrin.source
  • 1402Battle of Nesbit Moor: An English force decisively defeats a returning Scottish raiding party.source
  • 1424Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt under the leadership of Egyptian general Ibn bint al-Aqsarayi launch a series of military expeditions marking the start of the Mamluk campaigns against Cyprus (1424–1426).source
  • 1476Burgundian Wars: In the Battle of Morat, The Burgundians suffer a crushing defeat, losing half of its army of at least 12,000 soldiers, at the hands of the Swiss, who sustain only 410 casualties.source
  • 1476Charles is defeated a second time at the Battle of Moratsource
  • 1484The first known book printed by a woman, Anna Rügerin, is an edition of Eike of Repgow's compendium of customary law, the Sachsenspiegel, produced in Augsburg.source
  • 1485King Richard III of England, alerted to news that Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, is planning to invade England, orders his lords to be fully alert.source
  • 1527Jakarta, modern-day capital of Indonesia, is founded as Jayakarta.source
  • 1543King Henry VIII of England declares war on King Francis I of France, one month after sending an ultimatum.source
  • 1552Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, the Spanish Governor of Luxembourg, is taken prisoner by France and remains captive for almost five years.source
  • 1555Adil Shah Suri becomes the Sultan of the Sur Empire at Delhi in India after Sikandar Shah Suri is forced to flee from the Mughal Empire forces.source
  • 1559King Philip II of Spain and the 14-year-old Elisabeth of Valois are married in Spain, having married by proxy in January.source
  • 1564French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing what is now the United States, and, with the help of a relief force commanded by René Goulaine, establish Fort Caroline in Florida, near what is now the city of Jacksonville.source
  • 1564French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing the modern-day United States, and establish Fort Caroline in Floridasource
  • 1593Battle of Sisak in Croatia: The Habsburgs defeat the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1606By Act of Parliament in England, all Roman Catholics in England become required to swear an oath of allegiance to King James I, a Protestant raised in the Presbyterian Church in Scotland.source
  • 1607Christopher Newport sails back to England.source
  • 1611English explorer and sea captain Henry Hudson, his teenage son John, and seven crewmen are set adrift in or near Hudson Bay, after a mutiny on his ship Discovery. They are never seen again.source
  • 1614the Synod of Kilkenny regulates discipline and practice in the Catholic Province of Dublin.source
  • 1633the Roman Catholic Church forces Galileo Galilei to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System. According to legend, he claims Eppur si muove.source
  • 1636The Battle of Tornavento is fought in north-west Italy in the course of the Thirty Years' War, as France and Savoy respond to an attack by Spain. While the battle is a stalemate, the city of Castano Primo is heavily damaged.source
  • 1667June 19–24 – The raid on the Medway in England is carried out when a fleet from the Dutch Republic under Admiral Michiel de Ruyter takes Sheerness fort, sails up the River Medway, raids Chatham Dockyard, and tows away the royal flagship The Royal Charles.source
  • 1669Roux de Marsilly, accused of plotting the assassination of King Louis XIV, is publicly tortured in Paris, France.source
  • 1671The Ottoman Empire declares war on Poland.source
  • 1675The Royal Danish Academy of Surgery is founded as a replacement for the old Theatrum Anatomico-chirurgicum.source
  • 1679Battle of Bothwell Bridge in Scotland: Royal forces led by James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and John Graham of Claverhouse subdue the Scottish Covenanters.source
  • 1679Battle of Bothwell Bridge in Scotland: Royal forces led by the Duke of Monmouth and John Graham of Claverhouse subdue the Scottish Covenanters.source
  • 1680The Sanquhar Declaration, written by Richard Cameron, leader of the Covenanters who oppose the control of religion in Scotland by King Charles, is read aloud by Richard's brother Michael Cameron at the public square in the village of Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire.source
  • 1692Pope Innocent XII issues the papal bull Romanum decet Pontificem, intended to prohibit the office of cardinal-nephew and restrict related sinecures within the Roman Catholic church.source
  • 1694An annular solar eclipse is visible across North America and the Atlantic Ocean.source
  • 1698The executions of 57 leaders of the Streltsy uprising begin and continue until June 28.source
  • 1715Tsar Peter the Great of Russia witnesses the attempt of 45 Dutch and English ships to enter the small harbour at Saint Petersburg and decides that additional harbours are necessary for Russia to be able import Western goods.source
  • 1725malt riots in Glasgow against higher taxes on Scottish malt used in the production of distilled beverages. Wade's troops enter the city.source
  • 1727June 22 (July 11 Old Style) – George, Prince of Wales, becomes King George II of Great Britain, on the death of his father.source
  • 1727On the death of his father, King George I of Great Britain, the Prince of Wales becomes King George II of Great Britain.source
  • 1743The rebel army reach Stockholm, where they are dispersed by the military.source
  • 1756The Coup of 1756, an attempted coup d'état planned by Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden, to abolish the rule of the Riksdag of the Estates and reinstate absolute monarchy in Sweden with the support of the Hovpartiet, is exposed and subdued.source
  • 1760Britain's Captain John Byron, commanding HMS Fame, locates France's Captain Giraudais but runs aground on June 25 before it can attack.source
  • 1772Somersett's Case: Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, delivers the decision that leads to the end of slavery in England.source
  • 1772Somersett's Case: Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice delivers the decision that slavery is not supported by the common law of England.source
  • 1774The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America, enlarging its territory as far south as the Ohio River and west to the Mississippi River, in the area now occupied by the U.S. states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio and granting freedom of religion for Roman Catholics.source
  • 1782HDMS Det Store Bælt is launched at Bodenhoffs Plads in Copenhagen.source
  • 1785The Academy of Surgery is founded in Copenhagen, replacing the Theatrum Anatomico-chirurgicum from 1736.source
  • 1793June 20–22 – Haitian Revolution: Battle of Cap-Français – French Republican troops and black slave insurgents defeat Royalist and slave owner settlers.source
  • 1794June 17 - June 26 – Battle of Fleurus: The Austrians and their allies are defeated by France, leading to the loss of the Austrian Netherlands.source
  • 1807Chesapeake–Leopard affair: British Royal Navy fourth rate HMS Leopard attacks and boards United States Navy frigate USS Chesapeake off Norfolk, Virginia, seeking deserters. This act of British aggression plays a role in the run-up to the War of 1812.source
  • 1807The Chesapeake–Leopard affair: The British warship HMS Leopard captures and boards the USS Chesapeake.source
  • 1814First cricket match is played at Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood.source
  • 1815Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon abdicates again; Napoleon II (1811–1832), age 4, nominally rules for two weeks (22 June to 7 July).source
  • 1817King Ferdinand VII of Spain, by royal decree, makes the production and sale of tobacco a legal endeavor in Cuba, thus sparking the birth of the Cuban cigar industry.source
  • 1819Act of Parliament to abolish private appeals following acquittals in criminal cases and to abolish trial by combat, in the aftermath of Ashford v Thornton (1818).source
  • 1825Sir Walter Scott's "Tales of the Crusaders" The Betrothed and The Talisman are published (as "by the author of Waverley") by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh.source
  • 1825Cotton Mills Regulation Act establishes a maximum of 12-hour day for children under 16.source
  • 1826The Pan-American Congress of Panama is opened in Panama City by Simon Bolivar as an attempt to unify the republics of the Americas that have recently declared independence from Spain, or to at least make a federation to agree on a common defense policy and create a common military. The Congress lasts for 23 days without an agreement.source
  • 1838June 20–22 - Battle of Peñacerradasource
  • 1839Louis Daguerre receives a patent for his camera (commercially available by September at the price of 400 francs).source
  • 1840June 12–23 – The World Anti-Slavery Convention is organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, at Exeter Hall in London, England. Arguments over the exclusion of women from the convention have important ramifications for the movement for women's suffrage in the United States.source
  • 1843The Times sends a special correspondent to South Wales to cover the Rebecca Riots.source
  • 1844The Delta Kappa Epsilon student fraternity is founded at Yale College in the United States. ΔΚΕ will be home to many well known figures, such as U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford and Theodore Roosevelt.source
  • 1844Influential North American student fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale College.source
  • 1846the North British Railway is opened to public traffic between Edinburgh and Berwick-upon-Tweed, the first line to cross the border between Scotland and England. Edinburgh Waverley railway station is opened.source
  • 1848The French government dissolves the national workshops in Paris, giving the workers the choice of joining the army or going to workshops in the provinces. The following day, the June Days Uprising begins in response.source
  • 1853Guimarães is elevated to city status by Queen Maria II of Portugal.source
  • 1861Tooley Street fire breaks out and takes the life of James Braidwood, first superintendent of the London Fire Brigade.source
  • 1866In Sweden, the Riksdag of the Estates votes to replace itself by an elected two-chamber Riksdag.source
  • 1870The office of the Solicitor General of the United States is set up, to supervise and conduct government litigation in the United States Supreme Court.source
  • 1870The U.S. Congress creates the United States Department of Justice.source
  • 1872A Grand Trunk Railway express passenger train from Toronto to Montreal derails near Shannonville, Ontario, killing 34.source
  • 1874Andrew Taylor Still starts the movement for osteopathic medicine in the United States at Kirksville, Missouri.source
  • 1878Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld leaves Karlskrona on a voyage that will make him the first man to navigate the Northern Sea Route, a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, along the Siberian coast.source
  • 1884The seven surviving members of the 25-man Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, led by Adolphus Greely, are rescued by Winfield Scott Schley. One more died on the homeward journey.source
  • 1887The Fremantle Town Hall is opened.source
  • 1893The flagship HMS Victoria of the British Mediterranean Fleet collides with HMS Camperdown and sinks in 10 minutes; Vice-admiral Sir George Tryon goes down with his ship.source
  • 1893HMS Victoria, flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, collides with HMS Camperdown and sinks in ten minutes, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon going down with it.source
  • 1894Dahomey becomes a French colony.source
  • 189422 June / 23 June – Glamorgan play against the touring South Africans. The Glamorgan team contains three Wales rugby internationals, Billy Bancroft, Selwyn Biggs and Ralph Sweet-Escott.source
  • 1897The second Victoria Bridge is opened in Brisbane by the Governor of Queensland, Lord Lamington. The previous bridge was destroyed by floodwaterssource
  • 1897The British Empire celebrates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, marking the 60th year of her reign. No other British monarch will celebrate such a jubilee until Victoria's great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II in 2012.source
  • 1899Pelloux's patience with the obstruction to his public safety provisions snaps and he issues an unconstitutional royal decree. The decree was fiercely obstructed by the Socialist Party of Italy (PSI) and Extreme Left. More moderate politicians like Giuseppe Zanardelli and Giovanni Giolitti also join the opposition.source
  • 1903Torbjørg Utne, hotelier (born 1812).source
  • 1904The trans-Atlantic passenger liner SS Norge departs from Copenhagen, embarking on what will become her last voyage. On 28 June, she wrecks off the American coast, resulting in more than 630 casualties.source
  • 1904The first of 62,000 Chinese labourers arrive in South Africa to relieve the shortage of unskilled mine workers.source
  • 1906Haakon VII and Maud of Wales are crowned monarch and consort of Norway in the Nidaros Cathedral.source
  • 1907The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.source
  • 1910June 14–23 – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.source
  • 1910DELAG Zeppelin dirigible Deutschland makes the first commercial passenger flight, from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany; the flight takes 9 hours.source
  • 1910The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours.source
  • 1911George V and Mary are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, at Westminster Abbey in London.source
  • 1911Coronation of George V and Queen Mary at Westminster Abbey, London.source
  • 1915The Imperial Valley earthquakes shook southeastern Southern California, causing six deaths and financial losses of $900,000. Each shock in this doublet earthquake measured 5.5 Mw and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).source
  • 1918Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn.source
  • 1918Hammond Circus Train Wreck: A locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his troop train into the rear of a circus train near Hammond, Indiana. The circus train held 400 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.source
  • 1921July 12 – The Third Congress of the Communist International takes place.source
  • 1921June 15 – 29-year-old African American Bessie Coleman obtains her pilot's licence in France and becomes the first black woman to have a pilot's licence.source
  • 1922Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British Army field marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London; the assassins are sentenced to death on July 18.source
  • 1930The growth of the Nazi Party continues as they become the second biggest party in the Landtag of Saxonysource
  • 1933Nazi Germany outlaws the Social-Democratic Party (SPD).source
  • 1938Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis knocks out Max Schmeling in the first round of their rematch, at Yankee Stadium in New York City.source
  • 1939The British ambassador in Bucharest notifies London that the Romanian government is allowing large numbers of illegal Jewish migrants to travel to Palestine.source
  • 1940WWII: Second Armistice at Compiègne: The French Third Republic and Nazi Germany sign an armistice, ending the Battle of France in the Forest of Compiègne, in the same Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to conclude the Armistice with Germany in 1918. This divides France into a Zone occupée in the north and west, under the Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany), and a southern Zone libre, Vichy France.source
  • 1941Turkey declared neutrality in the recently started Germany-USSR War.source
  • 1941WWII: The First Sisak Partisan Brigade, the first anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe, is founded by Yugoslav partisans near Sisak, Croatia.source
  • 1941WWII: Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany (with allies) invades the Soviet Union and declares war on it. Winston Churchill promises all possible British assistance to the Soviet Union in a worldwide broadcast: "Any man or state who fights against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe." Italy and Romania declare war on the Soviet Union.source
  • 1941Germany attacked Soviet Union, Estonian partisans (Forest Brothers) started revolting in Southern Estonia.source
  • 1941Rapid escalation of the Holocaust in Lithuania: Between now and the end of the year, an estimated 190,000-195,000 out of 210,000 Lithuanian Jews will be massacred, killing an estimated 95% of the nation's Jewish population.source
  • 1941337 left-wing activists arrested to prevent.source
  • 1943June 20–23 – The Detroit race riot of 1943 in the United States kills 34 people (25 African Americans, 9 whites), wounds hundreds more and damages and destroys property worth millions.source
  • 1944Operation Bagration: A general attack by Soviet forces clears the German forces from Belarus, resulting in the destruction of German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.source
  • 1948British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark (laid down May 1945) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.source
  • 1948The ship HMT Empire Windrush brings more than 800 Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Tilbury near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain.source
  • 1948David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S., because of alleged antisemitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.source
  • 1949A Typhoon Della, torrential massibie rain and landslide hit, many ship and fishing boat plunged around Uwa Sea, Ehime Prefecture, 468 person were human fatalities, including a passenger ferry Aoba Maru, and 367 persons were hurt, according to Japanese government official confirmed report.source
  • 1954Sarah Mae Flemming is expelled from a bus in South Carolina, for sitting in a white-only section.source
  • 1954Parker–Hulme murder case: Pauline Parker, 16 and her friend Juliet Hulme, 15, bludgeon Parker's mother to death using a brick, at Victoria Park in New Zealand.source
  • 19601960 Quebec general election: the ruling Union nationale, led by Antonio Barrette, is defeated by the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Lesage, beginning the 'Quiet Revolution' in the historically conservative Canadian province.source
  • 1961Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of his connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba.source
  • 1962Air France Flight 117 (a Boeing 707 jet) crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe in the West Indies, killing all 113 on board, the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks, and the third fatal 707 crash of the year.source
  • 1962An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board.source
  • 1965The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed in Tokyo.source
  • 1967A law is passed abolishing compulsory military service.source
  • 1969Taça de Portugal Finalsource
  • 1972June 14–23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.source
  • 1972June 22–30 — Typhoon Ora strucks the Philippines and Southern China.source
  • 1977The Uniting Church in Australia is formed following the union of the majority of Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational Union churches in Australia.source
  • 1977The government abandons plan to build a nuclear power plant at Remerschen, due to fears that the country wouldn't have enough police to protect the site from protestors.source
  • 1978Charon, a satellite of Pluto, is discovered.source
  • 1979The WHA formally ceases operations, completing the merger with the NHL.source
  • 1979Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.source
  • 1979June 9–23 – The 1979 Cricket World Cup is held in England with West Indies defeating England in the final.source
  • 1981Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr is deposed.source
  • 1983Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old Vatican girl, mysteriously disappears in Rome while returning home from a music lesson. The disappearance of the girl led to many speculations involving international terrorism, Italian organized crime, and even a plot inside the Vatican to cover a sexual scandal inside the Holy See. Because of all these theories, the Orlandi case would later become Italy's most famous mystery.source
  • 1984Virgin Atlantic makes its inaugural flight.source
  • 1985British and Irish police foil a "mainland bombing campaign" sponsored by the Provisional Irish Republican Army which targets luxury vacation resorts.source
  • 1986In one of the most famous FIFA World Cup matches, Argentinian football player Diego Maradona scores one handball goal (nicknamed the "Hand of God") and then dribbles past the entire English football team to score a second goal (nicknamed "The Goal of the Century") with Argentina winning 2–1 against England.source
  • 1986In one of the most famous FIFA World Cup matches, Argentinian football player Diego Maradona scores a handball goal (nicknamed the "Hand of God") and then dribbles past the entire English football team to score a second goal (nicknamed "The Goal of the Century") with Argentina winning 2–1 against England.source
  • 1988Omri Casspi, the first Israeli basketball player in the NBA.source
  • 1989The University of Limerick and Dublin City University are raised to the status of universities, the first established in Ireland since independence in 1922.source
  • 1989British police arrest 260 people celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge.source
  • 1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities.source
  • 1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting three Canadian and eight U.S. cities.source
  • 1993Japan's New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party.source
  • 1995Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways Flight 857 (Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara.source
  • 19981998 Sokcho submarine incidentsource
  • 2002Operation Determined Path begins.source
  • 2002Ashok Singhal, leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), announces that the VHP is no longer bound by its earlier promise to the government to await a court ruling before embarking on the construction of a temple to the god Rama on the site of the destroyed Babri mosque at Ayodhya.source
  • 20022002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake: A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes north-western Iran, killing over 200 people.source
  • 2003Real Madrid clinches the Primera división, the top football league in Spain, beating Real Sociedad by two points. The very next day, Real fires its manager, Vicente del Bosque.source
  • 2006Mahendra Chaudhry warns that the Fiji Labour Party will withdraw from the coalition government if government programs continue to be biased towards indigenous Fijians.source
  • 2007June 22–June 24 – Canadian professional wrestler Chris Benoit commits a double-murder suicide on his wife and youngest son at their home in Fayetteville, Georgia, United States.source
  • 2007The 2007 Ellie tornado becomes the only F5 tornado recorded under the use of the Fujita scale in Canada, reaching windspeeds up to 320 mph (510 km/h).source
  • 2009A protest by European milk farmers outside a Council of the European Union meeting in Luxembourg City ends in rioting.source
  • 2010June 22–25 – A tennis match between Nicolas Mahut and John Isner at the Wimbledon Championships, becomes the longest tennis match in history.source
  • 2011President al-Bashir threatens to cut off pipelines of South Sudanese petroleum if a deal for oil is not agreed upon by 1 July.source
  • 2011Former Winter Hill Gang leader James "Whitey" Bulger is arrested in Santa Monica, California following an anonymous tip.source
  • 2012Fernando Lugo is removed from power. Vice President Federico Franco becomes the new president of Paraguay.source
  • 2017The African and Caribbean War Memorial unveiled in Brixton, London.source
  • 2018June 22–July 1 – The 2018 Mediterranean Games are held in Tarragona, Spain.source
  • 2022A 6.2 earthquake strikes the Durand Line between Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 1,163 people.source
  • 2025Iran–Israel war: The United States carries out B-2 bomber airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.source

Births

  • 662Rui Zong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (died 716)source
  • 916ySayf al-Dawla, Hamdanid emir (died 967)source
  • 1000Robert I, duke of Normandy (died 1035)source
  • 1427Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Italian writer, adviser and spouse of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (died 1482)source
  • 1450Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara (died 1493)source
  • 1477Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English noble (died 1530)source
  • 1593Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, Parliamentarian politician and military figure in the English Civil War (died 1671)source
  • 1662Peter Rodsteen, government official and landowner (died 1714)source
  • 1670Eva von Buttlar, German mystic sectarian (died 1721)source
  • 1680Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (died 1754)source
  • 1696Joost van Hemert, merchant and ship-owner (died 1775)source
  • 1701Nicolai Eigtved, Danish architect (died 1754)source
  • 1712Michael Heltzen, mining engineer (died in 1770).source
  • 1757George Vancouver, British explorer (died 1798)source
  • 1757George Vancouver, naval officer, explorer (d.1798)source
  • 1777William Brown (admiral), Irish-born first admiral of Argentina (died 1857)source
  • 1802Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek, Russian orientalist, historian and philologist.source
  • 1805Giuseppe Mazzini Italian patriot, statesman and writer (died 1872)source
  • 1806Magnús Eiríksson, theologiansource
  • 1837Paul Morphy, American chess player (died 1884)source
  • 1845Richard Seddon, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1906)source
  • 1933Dianne Feinstein, American politician, Senator and mayor of San Francisco (died 2023)source
  • 1949Elizabeth Warren, American academic and politician, U.S. Senator (D-Mass.) since 2013source
  • 1949Meryl Streep, American actresssource
  • 1978Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (died 2011)source
  • 1987Khalid Sebil Lashkari.source
  • 2009Dominik Kočik, darts playersource

Deaths

  • 207 BCEHasdrubal Barca, Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War (born 245 BC)source
  • 431Paulinus of Nola, Christian bishop and poet (born 354)source
  • 910Gebhard, Frankish noblemansource
  • 910Gerhard I, Frankish noblemansource
  • 947Qian Hongzuo, king of Wuyue (born 928)source
  • 1017Leo Passianos, Byzantine generalsource
  • 1101Roger I, Norman noblemansource
  • 1101Roger I, count of Sicily, dies at Mileto in Calabria after a 30-year reign. He is succeeded by his 8-year-old son Simon of Hauteville, while his mother, Adelaide del Vasto, acts as his regent.source
  • 1125Lambert of St-Bertin, French chroniclersource
  • 1276Innocent V dies after a 5-month reign at Rome. He is succeeded by Adrian V (or Hadrian) as the 186th pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • 1276Innocent V, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1220)source
  • 1343Aimone, Count of Savoy (born 1291)source
  • 1429Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian mathematician and astronomer (born 1380)source
  • 1453Álvaro de Luna, Spanish knight and statesmansource
  • 1462Catherine of Alençon, duchess (born before 1396)source
  • 1521Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice (born 1436)source
  • 1535John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed) (born c. 1469)source
  • 1535Cardinal John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, is executed for his refusal to swear an oath of loyalty to King Henry VIII of England.source
  • 1538Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1511–1538) (born 1467)source
  • 1664Katherine Philips, Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1631)source
  • 1664Katherine Philips, poet (born 1631)source
  • 1714Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (born 1662)source
  • 1764Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63source
  • 1792Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Arabian Wahhabi preacher (born 1703)source
  • 1872Rudecindo Alvarado, military leader (born 1792)source
  • 1893Sir George Tryon, British admiral (born 1832)source
  • 1922Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, British field marshal and politician (born 1864)source
  • 1969Judy Garland, American actress and singer (born 1922)source
  • 1987Yun Il-seon, politician, pathologist, and anatomist (born 1896)source