1876
Jun 22, Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, married Frank Butler, marksman.


1983
Jun 22, Emanuela Orlandi (b.1968), the daughter of a Vatican messenger, disappeared after a music lesson in Rome. She was 15 at the time. Her self-proclaimed kidnappers demanded the release of Ali Agca, who wounded the Pope in 1981, for her freedom. They never offered any proof they had the girl or that she was alive.


1992
Jun 22, Anastasia, a daughter of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, was identified as one of the skeletons excavated in Ekaterinburg, Russia.


1997
Jun 22, Dr. Nancy W. Dickey was named the first female president of the American Medical Association.


2002
Jun 22, In Meerwala, Pakistan, Mukhtar Mai (18) was gang raped in the Punjab on orders from a tribal council after her brother (13) was accused of socializing with a higher-caste Mastoi girl. It was later reported that the affair was fabricated to cover up sodomy of boy by Mastoi tribesmen. Six death sentences were handed down for the crime on Sep 1. In 2005 a lower court overturned 5 convictions, but Pakistan’s high court threw out the acquittal. In 2009 Mukhtar Mai married the police officer who was assigned to protect her as her case gained notoriety, becoming his 2nd wife. On april 21, 2011, Pakistan's Supreme Court freed five men accused in the gang-rape. The ruling left just one of the initial 14 suspects in prison.


2004
Jun 22, A federal judge granted class-action status to a lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of 1.6 million women who claimed discrimination in pay and promotions.


2005
Jun 22, A Romanian monk and four nuns were charged with murder after a nun died during an exorcism. Maricica Irina Cornici (23) was crucified and left without food for three days. a minor traffic encounter. On Jun 25 Edwin Ramos (21), an alleged member of MS-13, was arrested in El Sobrante on murder charges. On May 9, 2012, Ramos was convicted on 3 first-degree murder charges in the killings of Tony Bologna (48) and his two sons (16,20). On June 11, 2012, Ramos was sentenced to 3 consecutive life terms with no possibility of parole. An FBI report in 2006 had implicated Ramos in the killing of Rolando Valladares. On July 9, 2012, Wilfredo Reyes (31), suspected of aiding Ramos, was arrested in North Carolina along with Jose Antonio Mejia, a suspected MS-13 gang member.


2011
Jun 22, In Colombia women of Barbacoas announced that they would deny their partners sex until authorities began paving a 35-mile (57-km) road linking the town of 35,000 people with the provincial capital of Pasto. Army engineers began work on Oct 11 and the sex strike was declared over.


2011 Jun 22, The Myanmar military-backed government deported Hollywood actress Michelle Yeoh, who stars as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming movie, on the same day as she arrived in Yangon. The Luc Besson movie about Suu Kyi's life, "The Lady," is due out later this year.

2014 Jun 22, In northern Nigeria suspected Islamist militants kidnapped as many as 91 villagers, most of them women and young girls, in Borno state. 63 girls and women managed to escape on July 4.


2013
Jun 22, In Ohio a plane carrying wing walker Jane Wicker crashed at The Vectren Air Show near Dayton. Wicker and the pilot were killed.