July
22
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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