What are the important events that happened on June 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 22: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 22 is the 173^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 9, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,175,840 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontatrigon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 240 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,566 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 22 Historical Events

• 1633 –
  The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
• 1774 –
  The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• 1813 –
  War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
• 1839 –
  Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
• 1907 –
  The London Underground’s Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
• 1918 –
  The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• 1942 –
  Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
• 1944 –
  Opening day of the Soviet Union’s Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
• 1945 –
  World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
• 1976 –
  The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.

Who were born on June 22?

• 1885 –
  Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
• 1892 –
  Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)
• 1903 –
  John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
• 1907 –
  Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)
• 1941 –
  Terttu Savola, Finnish politician
• 1948 –
  Steve Eastin, American actor
• 1958 –
  Bruce Campbell, American actor
• 1959 –
  Mike O'Meara, American radio personality
• 1964 –
  Dan Brown, American writer
• 1973 –
  Carson Daly, American television personality

Who died on June 22?

• 1276 –
  Pope Innocent V (b. c. 1225)
• 1892 –
  Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
• 1931 –
  Armand Fallières, French politician, President of France (b. 1841)
• 1942 –
  August Froehlich, German Roman Catholic priest, member of the resistance against Nazism and martyr (b.1891)
• 1974 –
  Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
• 1980 –
  Dimitrios Partsalidis, Greek politician (b. 1905)
• 1990 –
  Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
• 1997 –
  Don Henderson, English actor (b. 1932)
• 1997 –
  Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1919)
• 2007 –
  Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1964)