| 71281 | June 22 | Event | 1870 – US Congress created the United States Department of Justice |
| 71282 | June 22 | Event | 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. |
| 71283 | June 22 | Event | 1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged. |
| 71284 | June 22 | Event | 1898 – Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba. |
| 71285 | June 22 | Event | 1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted. |
| 71286 | June 22 | Event | 1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. |
| 71287 | June 22 | Event | 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| 71288 | June 22 | Event | 1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana. |
| 71289 | June 22 | Event | 1922 – Herrin Massacre: Nineteen strikebreakers and three union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois. |
| 71290 | June 22 | Event | 1940 – France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany. |
| 71291 | June 22 | Event | 1941 – Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. |
| 71292 | June 22 | Event | 1941 – The June Uprising in Lithuania begins. |
| 71293 | June 22 | Event | 1942 – Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk. |
| 71294 | June 22 | Event | 1942 – Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress |
| 71295 | June 22 | Event | 1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre. |
| 71296 | June 22 | Event | 1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill. |
| 71297 | June 22 | Event | 1945 – The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end. |
| 71298 | June 22 | Event | 1954 – In Christchurch, New Zealand, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Pauline's mother because they think she is in the way of their friendship. |
| 71299 | June 22 | Event | 1957 – The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar). |
| 71300 | June 22 | Event | 1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. |
| 71301 | June 22 | Event | 1978 – Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy. |
| 71302 | June 22 | Event | 1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport. |
| 71303 | June 22 | Event | 1986 – The controversial Hand of God goal by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century also by Maradona. Argentina would win 2–1 and go on to win |
| 71304 | June 22 | Event | 1990 – Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin. |
| 71305 | June 22 | Event | 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response. |
| 71306 | June 22 | Event | 2007 – An F5 tornado strikes Elie, Manitoba in Canada part of the town is destroyed, but there are no fatalities or injuries. |
| 71307 | June 22 | Event | 2009 – A Washington D.C Metro train was traveling southbound at the Fort Totten station when it collided into another train sitting in the station. Nine people were killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others w |
| 71308 | June 22 | Event | 2012 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco. |
| 71309 | June 22 | Event | 2012 – A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria. |
| 71310 | June 22 | Event | 2015 – The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All 6 of the gunmen are killed, with 18 people injured |