Events
of the day
World
Brain Day
World
Federation of Neurology (WFN)
838
β Battle of Anzen: the Byzantine emperor Theophilos
suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
1099 β First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is
elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre
of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1298 β Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle
of Falkirk β King Edward I of England and his
longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish
schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
1456 β Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade
β John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary,
defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire
1484 β Battle of Lochmaben Fair β 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 β Battle of Dornach β The Swiss decisively
defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian
I.
1587 β Colony of Roanoke: a second group of
English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off
North Carolina to re-establish the deserted
colony.
1686 β Albany, New York is formally chartered
as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1706 β 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 β Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific
Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete
a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
1796 β Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company
name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after
Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of
the surveying party.
1797 β 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 β Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition
β Battle of Cape Finisterre β 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 β Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War β Battle
of Salamanca β British forces led by Arthur
Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat
French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
1864 β American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta
β outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General
John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack
on Union troops under General William T. Sherman
on Bald Hill.
1894 β 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 β In San Francisco, California, a bomb
explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness
Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
1933 β 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 β Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public
Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally
wounded by FBI agents.
1937 β 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 β The United States government begins compulsory
civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime
demands.
1942 β Holocaust: the systematic deportation
of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
1943 β World War II: Allied forces capture the
Italian city of Palermo.
1944 β The Polish Committee of National Liberation
publishes its manifesto, starting the period
of Communist rule in Poland
1946 β 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 β Dezik (ΠΠ΅Π·ΠΈΠΊ) and Tsygan (Π¦ΡΠ³Π°Π½, "Gypsy")
are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
1962 β Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft
flies erratically several minutes after launch
and has to be destroyed.
1976 β 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 β Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored
to power.
1983 β Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1991 β Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee
after police discover human remains in his apartment.
1992 β Near MedellΓn, Colombian drug lord Pablo
Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing
extradition to the United States.
1993 β 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 β The second Blue Water Bridge opens between
Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
2002 β Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief
of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
Brigades.
2003 β 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 β 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 β 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 UtΓΈya.
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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