June 22 is the 173th day of the year (174th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days remaining until the end of the year.
Railways
- 22 June 1953 General Directorate of State Railways and Ports became an economic state enterprise under the name of TCDD.
Events
- 217 BC – Battle of Raffia: Army of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, III. He defeated the Seleucid Army under Antiochus in Palestine.
- 431 – Inauguration of the Third Ecumenical Council, the Council of Ephesus, by Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria.
- 1633 - Convicted by the Inquisition, Galileo was forced to deny his Copernican views and his thesis that the Earth rotates.
- 1691 – II. Ahmed ascended the throne as the 21st Ottoman Sultan.
- 1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte launched an expedition to Russia.
- 1846 - Adolphe Sax patented the saxophone.
- 1911 - George V is crowned officially King of Great Britain.
- 1919 – Amasya Circular was published.
- 1925 – Journalists arrested in Istanbul on 20 June were sent to Diyarbakir to stand trial at the Eastern Independence Court.
- 1939 – Adana Electric Company was bought and nationalized.
- 1939 – In India, the party called All India Progressive Bloc is formed by Subhas Chandra Bose.
- 1940 – II. World War II, Battle of France: France surrenders to Germany with an armistice.
- 1941 – II. World War II: Nazi Germany begins invading the USSR, launching Operation Barbarossa.
- 1941 – The first armed antifascist organization was founded in Croatia.
- 1942 – Erwin Rommel is promoted to Generalfeldmarschall after capturing Tobruk.
- 1945 – The Iller Bank Establishment Law was accepted.
- 1976 - The death penalty is abolished in Canada.
- 1978 - Pluto's moon, Charon, is discovered.
- 2001 – The Constitutional Court closed the Virtue Party on the grounds that it was “the focus of actions against the principle of the secular republic”.
- 2002 – More than 6.5 people died in an earthquake measuring 261 on the Richter scale in Iran.
- 2006 – North Macedonia was admitted to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
- 2008 – The 7th grade Placement Exam prepared by MEB was held for the first time.
- 2010 – The Apple iPhone (4G) is released.
- 2012 – The F-4 type Turkish military jet, which took off from Malatya Erhaç Air Base for mission, was shot down by the Syrian Army off the Syrian territorial waters.
Births
- 1805 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian nationalist, politician, lawyer, activist, journalist, author, and freemason (d. 1872)
- 1837 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
- 1869 – Mustafa Sabri Efendi, Ottoman professor, Deputy of the Parliament and Şeyhülislam (d. 1954)
- 1871 – William McDougall, English psychologist (d. 1938)
- 1887 Julian Huxley, English evolutionary biologist (d. 1975)
- 1888 – Selman Abraham Waksman, American biochemist (d. 1973)
- 1892 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German soldier and Luftwaffe Commander of the Nazi Germany (d. 1945)
- 1893 – Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (d. 1945)
- 1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
- 1903 – John Dillinger, American gangster (d. 1934)
- 1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d. 2001)
- 1906 Billy Wilder, American director (d. 2002)
- 1908 – Pablo Dorado, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1978)
- 1909 – Mike Todd, American film and theater producer (d. 1958)
- 1915 – Cornelius Warmerdam, American athlete (d. 2001)
- 1927 – Çetin Altan, Turkish writer (d. 2015)
- 1928 – Ralph Waite, American actor and voice actor (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Steingrímur Hermannsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2010)
- 1930 – Yuri Artyuhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
- 1932 – Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiary, second wife of Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (d. 2001)
- 1936 – Kris Kristofferson, American actress and singer
- 1939 – Ada E. Yonath, Israeli molecular biologist and crystallographer
- 1940 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director (d. 2016)
- 1941 – Rashid Ghannouchi, Tunisian politician
- 1943 – Klaus Maria Brandauer, German actor
- 1944 – Gérard Mourou, French physicist and academic
- 1946 – Józef Oleksy, Polish politician and economist (d. 2015)
- 1947 – Gökmen Özdenak, Turkish football player and sports writer
- 1948 – Todd Rundgren, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer
- 1949 – Aytaç Arman, Turkish cinema and TV series actor (d. 2019)
- 1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
- 1953 - Cyndi Lauper is an American singer, songwriter and actress.
- 1954 – Wolfgang Becker, German director, screenwriter, and historian
- 1956 – Tim Russ is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and musician.
- 1957 – Arkadi Gukasyan is the third president of the de facto Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
- 1958 Bruce Campbell, American actor
- 1962 - Clyde Drexler is an American former basketball player.
- 1964 – Dan Brown, American writer
- 1964 – Miroslav Kadlec, Czech football player
- 1966 – Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress, singer and model
- 1967 – Alejandro Aravena, Chilean architect
- 1968 - Darrell Armstrong is a retired American professional basketball player.
- 1973 – Rufus Wainwright, Canadian-American singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Jo Cox, UK Labor Party MP
- 1974 - Donald Faison, American actor
- 1974 Lecy Goranson, American actress
- 1977 – Ayça Varlıer Turkish actress and singer
- 1978 – Dan Wheldon, British racing driver (b. 1978)
- 1981 – Monty Oum, American web-based animator and author (d. 2015)
- 1982 – Gustave Bebbe, Cameroonian football player
- 1984 – Janko Tipsarević, Yugoslavian-born Serbian tennis player
- 1985 – Sofoklis Shorcanitis, Greek basketball player
- 1987 – Eda Erdem, Turkish volleyball player
- 1987 – Lee Min-ho, South Korean actor
- 1987 – Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian national football player
- 1988 – Omri Casspi, Israeli Basketball Player
- 1988 - Portia Doubleday is an American actress.
- 1989 – Jung Yong Hwa, South Korean actor and singer
- 1993 – Loris Karius, German goalkeeper
- 1996 – Rodri is a Spanish national football player.
- 2000 – Mizgin Ay, Turkish sprinter
Deaths
- 1101 – Rugerro I, Norman aristocrat who was the first Earl of Sicily from 1071 to 1101 (b. 1031)
- 1276 – Innocent V, pope from January 21 to June 22, 1276 (b. 1225)
- 1429 – Gıyaseddin Cemşid, Iranian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
- 1691 – II. Süleyman, 20th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1642)
- 1816 – Ferdinando Marescalchi, Italian diplomat and politician (b. 1754)
- 1874 – Howard Staunton, English chess grandmaster (b. 1810)
- 1880 – George Merriam, American publisher (b. 1803)
- 1885 – Mohammed Ahmed, founder of the Mahdist movement in Sudan (b. 1845)
- 1912 – Ion Luca Caragiale, Screenwriter, short story, poetry writer, theater manager, political commentator, and journalist (b. 1852)
- 1925 – Felix Klein, German mathematician and mathematics educator (b. 1849)
- 1931 – Armand Fallières, French politician and President of France (b. 1841)
- 1936 – Moritz Schlick, German Philosophy (b. 1882)
- 1940 – Wladimir Köppen, Russian-German geographer, meteorologist, and botanist (b. 1846)
- 1965 – David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)
- 1969 – Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
- 1972 – Paul Czinner, Hungarian-born film director and producer (b. 1890)
- 1978 – Jens Otto Krag, former prime minister of Denmark (b. 1914)
- 1984 – Joseph Losey, American film and theater director (b. 1909)
- 1987 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
- 1990 – Ilya Frank, Soviet nuclear physicist (b. 1908)
- 1993 – Pat Nixon, wife of 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon (b. 1912)
- 1995 – Yves Congar, considered one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century (b. 1904)
- 2001 – Luis Carniglia, Argentinean former football player and manager (b. 1917)
- 2003 – Vasil Bikov, Belarusian writer (b. 1924)
- 2007 – Nusret Özcan, Turkish journalist and writer (b.1958)
- 2008 – George Carlin, American comedian (b. 1937)
- 2011 – Coşkun Özarı, Turkish football player and coach (b. 1931)
- 2014 – İzzet Özilhan, Turkish industrialist and businessman (b. 1920)
- 2015 – Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (b. 1941)
- 2015 – James Horner, American orchestral writer, conductor, and composer (b. 1953)
- 2016 – Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, Turkish academic, journalist, writer, lawyer and politician (b. 1951)
- 2016 – Amjad Sabri, Pakistani musician (b. 1976)
- 2017 – Pavel Dalaloyan, Former Russian football player (b. 1978)
- 2017 – Hervé Filion, Canadian jockey (b. 1940)
- 2017 – Gunter Gabriel, German singer, musician and composer (b. 1942)
- 2017 – Necmettin Karaduman, Turkish politician (b. 1927)
- 2017 – Keith Loneker, American actor and football player (b. 1971)
- 2017 – Quett Masire, Botswana politician (b. 1925)
- 2017 – Hartmut Neugebauer, German actor, voice actor, and dubbing dialogue director (b. 1942)
- 2018 – Halina Aszkiełowicz-Wojno, Former Polish volleyball player (b. 1947)
- 2018 – Geoff Case, Australian football player (b. 1935)
- 2018 – Nahum Korzhavin, Russian-American novelist and writer (b. 1925)
- 2018 – Olga Teresa Krzyżanowska, Polish politician (b. 1929)
- 2018 – Dick Leitsch, American LGBT Rights activist and journalist (b. 1935)
- 2018 – Deanna Lund, American actress (b. 1937)
- 2018 – Rezső Nyers, Hungarian politician, economist and former minister (b. 1923)
- 2018 – Geoffrey Oryema, Ugandan-born French musician (b. 1953)
- 2018 – Vinnie Paul is the drummer and producer of Hellyeah (b. 1964)
- 2018 – Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (b. 1926)
- 2019 – Miguel Ángel Falasca, Spanish volleyball player of Argentine descent (b. 1973)
- 2019 – Enis Fosforoğlu, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor (b. 1948)
- 2019 – Leevi Lehto is a Finnish poet, writer and translator (b. 1951)
- 2019 – Se'are Mekonnen, Ethiopian senior soldier (b. 1954)
- 2019 – Thalles Lima de Conceição Penha, Brazilian football player (b. 1995)
- 2019 – Jolene Watanabe, American professional tennis player and coach (b. 1968)
- 2020 – Pierino Prati, Italian football player (b. 1946)
- 2020 – Joel Schumacher, American film director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1939)
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