22 June History
- 1558 - The French take the French town of Thioville from the English.
- 1772 - Slavery is outlawed in England.
- 1807 - British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
- 1864 - Confederate General A. P. Hill turns back a Federal flanking movement at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, Virginia.
- 1876 - General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages.
- 1910 - German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.
- 1911 - King George V of England crowned.
- 1915 - Austro-German forces occupy Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
- 1925 - France and Spain agree to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
- 1930 - A son is born to Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
- 1933 - Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.
- 1938 - Joe Louis floors Max Schmeling in the first round of the heavyweight bout at Yankee Stadium.
- 1940 - France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
- 1941 - Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invades the Soviet Union.
- 1942 - A Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
- 1944 - President Franklin Roosevelt signs the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
- 1956 - The battle for Algiers begins as three buildings in Casbah are blown up.
- 1970 - President Richard Nixon signs the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
- 1973 - Skylab astronauts splash down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
- 1980 - The Soviet Union announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
- 1981 - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.
- 1995 - Nigeria's former military ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his chief deputy are charged with conspiracy to overthrow Gen. Sami Abacha's military government.
22 June Birthdays
- 1757 - George Vancouver, English navigator.
- 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front).
- 1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, wife of Charles Lindbergh (Gifts from the Sea).
- 1906 - Billy Wilder, film director (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment).
- 1921 - Joseph Papp, theater director and producer, founder of the New York Public Theatre and Shakespeare-in-the-Park.
- 1941 - Ed Bradley, broadcast journalist.