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Events
July 22
838 – Battle
of Anzen: the Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat
by the Abbasids.
1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first
Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King
Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace
and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
1456 – Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi,
Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman
Empire
1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – A 500-man raiding party led
by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th
Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's
brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1499 – Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial
army of Emperor Maximilian I.
1587 – Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers
arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish
the deserted colony.
1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality
by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners
from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which,
when passed by each countries' Parliaments, lead to the creation
of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming
the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing
of Canada.
1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area
in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the
superintendent of the surveying party.
1797 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish
and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars.
During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm
and the arm had to be partially amputated.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle
of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought
between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles
Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert
Calder.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca
– British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of
Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta,
Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful
attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald
Hill.
1894 – The first ever motorized racing event is held in France
between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by Comte
Jules-Albert de Dion.
1916 – In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market
Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring
40.
1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around
the world traveling 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in 7 days, 18 hours
and 45 minutes.
1934 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy
No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1937 – New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian
gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1942 – Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the
Warsaw Ghetto begins.
1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city
of Palermo.
1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes
its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
1946 – King David Hotel bombing: a Zionist underground organisation,
the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of
the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate
Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
1951 – Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") are
the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically
several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines
for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest
of the country in the Second World War
1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police
discover human remains in his apartment.
1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes
from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1993 – Great Flood of 1993: levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois
rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated
by the Army Corps of Engineers.
1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron,
Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
2002 – Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of
Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided
by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam
Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein,
Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt
begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005
London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
2011 – Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first
being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central
Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island
of Utøya.
Holidays
and observances
Birthday
of former King Sobhuza II (Swaziland)
Christian Feast Day:
Abd-al-Masih (martyr)
Markella
Mary Magdalene
July 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Parents' Day can fall, while 28 July is
the latest; celebrated on the fourth Sunday in July. (United
States)
Pi Approximation Day, also see March 14--Pi Day
Ratcatcher's Day
Revolution Day (The Gambia)
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