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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_22" title="June 22">June 22</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1593" title="1593">1593</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_monarchy" title="Habsburg monarchy">Habsburg</a> troops defeated a larger <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> force at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sisak" title="Battle of Sisak">Battle of Sisak</a></b> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Croatia_(Habsburg)" title="Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg)">Kingdom of Croatia</a>, triggering the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Turkish_War" title="Long Turkish War">Long Turkish War</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911" title="1911">1911</a> – King <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_V" title="George V">George V</a></b> and Queen <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Teck" title="Mary of Teck">Mary of Teck</a></b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_George_V_and_Mary" title="Coronation of George V and Mary">were crowned</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a> in London.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941" title="1941">1941</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: As <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers" title="Axis powers">Axis</a> troops <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">began their invasion of the Soviet Union</a></b>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Activist_Front" title="Lithuanian Activist Front">Lithuanian Activist Front</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Uprising_in_Lithuania" title="June Uprising in Lithuania">started an uprising</a></b> to liberate Lithuania from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_the_Baltic_states_(1940)" title="Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940)">Soviet occupation</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a> – Former British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a> leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Thorpe" title="Jeremy Thorpe">Jeremy Thorpe</a> was <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe_affair" title="Thorpe affair">acquitted of conspiracy to murder</a></b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Josiffe" title="Norman Josiffe">Norman Scott</a>, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002" title="2002">2002</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Bou%27in-Zahra_earthquake" title="2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake">An earthquake</a></b> registering 6.5 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale">M<sub>w</sub></a> struck northwestern Iran, killing at least 230 people and injuring 1,300 others, and later causing widespread public anger at the slow official response.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Staunton" title="Howard Staunton">Howard Staunton</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1874); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Rabearivelo" title="Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo">Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1937); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren" title="Elizabeth Warren">Elizabeth Warren</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1949); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryl_Streep" title="Meryl Streep">Meryl Streep</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1949)</p>
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