Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 22

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 * 1807 – The British warship HMS Leopard (1790) pursued and attacked the American frigate USS Chesapeake (1799) (pictured) in the belief that the crew of the latter included deserters from the Royal Navy.
 * 1812 – France declared war on Russia, starting Napoleon's invasion two days later.
 * 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of a forthcoming American attack, Laura Secord walked 20 mi from Queenston, Upper Canada, to warn British lieutenant James FitzGibbon (depicted).
 * 1922 – Irish Republican Army gunmen assassinated British member of parliament Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson.
 * 1941 – World War II: German minister of foreign affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop presented a declaration of war to the Soviet ambassador Vladimir Dekanozov in Berlin.
 * 1966 – Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyễn Cao Kỳ crushed the Buddhist Uprising.
 * 2009 – Two Metro trains collided in Washington, D.C., killing nine people and injuring eighty others.
 * 2022 – An earthquake registering 6.2 Mw caused the deaths of at least 1,000 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
 * Born/died this day: | Paulinus of Nola |d|431| Sayf al-Dawla |b|916| Aymon, Count of Savoy|d|1343| Lucrezia Tornabuoni |b|1427| Matthew Henry |d|1714| Matthias Vanden Gheyn |d|1785| Maximilian von Spee |b|1861| Howard Staunton |d|1874| Pascual Díaz y Barreto |b|1876| Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo |d|1937|  Terttu Savola |b|1941| Meryl Streep |b|1949| Elizabeth Warren |b|1949| Cyndi Lauper |b|1953| Lola Baldwin |d|1957| Erin Brockovich|b|1960| Judy Garland |d|1969| Lee Min-ho|b|1987| Pat Nixon |d|1993|