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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_22" title="June 22">June 22</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Boat_Festival" title="Dragon Boat Festival">Dragon Boat Festival</a></b> in China (2023)
</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/1807" title="1807">1807</a> – The British warship <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Leopard_(1790)" title="HMS Leopard (1790)">HMS <i>Leopard</i></a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake%E2%80%93Leopard_affair" title="Chesapeake–Leopard affair">pursued and attacked</a></b> the American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate">frigate</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chesapeake_(1799)" title="USS Chesapeake (1799)">USS <i>Chesapeake</i></a> in the belief that the crew of the latter included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertion" title="Desertion">deserters</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a>.</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>: German minister of foreign affairs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop" title="Joachim von Ribbentrop">Joachim von Ribbentrop</a> presented <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_on_the_Soviet_Union" title="German declaration of war on the Soviet Union">a declaration of war</a></b> to the Soviet ambassador <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Dekanozov" title="Vladimir Dekanozov">Vladimir Dekanozov</a> in Berlin.</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/2022" title="2022">2022</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2022_Afghanistan_earthquake" title="June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake">An earthquake</a></b> registering 6.2 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale">M<sub>w</sub></a> caused the deaths of at least 1,000 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymon,_Count_of_Savoy" title="Aymon, Count of Savoy">Aymon, Count of Savoy</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1343); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucrezia_Tornabuoni" title="Lucrezia Tornabuoni">Lucrezia Tornabuoni</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1427); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Min-ho" title="Lee Min-ho">Lee Min-ho</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1987); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Nixon" title="Pat Nixon">Pat Nixon</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1993)</p>
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