July 22

is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining.

Events

1099 - Godfrey of Bouillon elected first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem
1298 - Battle of Falkirk - Edward I (Longshanks) of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his scottish schiltrons outside the town.
1456 - Siege of Belgrade - John Hunyadi, Regent of Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of Ottoman Empire
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 arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1793 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico.
1796 - Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition - inconclusive battle of Cape Finisterre fought between a combined French and Spanish fleets 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 of Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
1908 - Albert Fisher establishes the Fisher Body Company to manufacture carriage and automobile bodies.
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 first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "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 - 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: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.
1962 - Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1977 - Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1991 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee apartment.
1992 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1997 - The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
2002 - Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians.
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 - A man is murdered by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. See 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings
2005 - The last Buick LeSabre rolls off the assembly line.

Births

1210 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
1478 - King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1510 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
1519 - Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
1535 - Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
1559 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
1621 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1683)
1711 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
1713 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
1733 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
1784 - Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
1822 - Gregor Mendel, Austrian geneticist (d. 1884)
1844 - William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
1859 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
1882 - Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1888 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1973)
1893 - James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
1898 - Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1905 - Doc Cramer, baseball player (d. 1990)
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, American author on etiquette (d. 1974)
1913 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter
1916 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
1921 - William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
1923 - Bob Dole, U.S. Senator from Kansas and Presidential candidate
1923 - Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1924 - Margaret Whiting, singer
1928 - Orson Bean, American film actor
1932 - Oscar De la Renta, Dominican-born fashion designer
1934 - Louise Fletcher, American actress
1936 - Tom Robbins, American author
1939 - Terence Stamp, English actor
1940 - Alex Trebek, Canadian-born game show host
1941 - George Clinton, American musician
1941 - Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
1943 - Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas
1944 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes)
1944 - Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp)
1944 - Sparky Lyle, baseball player
1946 - Mireille Mathieu, French singer
1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (d. 2000)
1947 - Albert Brooks, American comedian
1947 - Danny Glover, American actor
1947 - Don Henley, American drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles)
1948 - S.E. Hinton, American author
1948 - Otto Waalkes, German comedian
1949 - Alan Menken, American composer
1949 - Lasse Virén, Finnish athlete
1954 - Lonette McKee, American actress
1954 - Al Di Meola, American guitarist
1955 - Willem Dafoe, American actor
1958 - David Von Erich, Professional wrestler
1960 - Jon Oliva, American musician (Savatage)
1961 - Keith Sweat, American singer
1962 - Steve Albini, Writer, Recording Engineer
1963 - Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls)
1964 - Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor
1964 - John Leguizamo, Colombian actor
1964 - David Spade, American actor and comedian
1964 - Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist
1965 - Shawn Michaels, American professional wrestler
1966 - Tim Brown, American football player
1970 - Jason Becker, American musician
1970 - Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player
1971 - Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
1972 - Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
1973 - Mike Sweeney, baseball player
1973 - Petey Pablo, American Rapper
1973 - Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer and songwriter
1974 - Daddy Kev, American record producer and engineer
1974 - Franka Potente, German actress
1978 - Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1980 - Scott Dixon, New Zealand race car driver
1980 - Dirk Kuyt, Dutch football striker
1980 - Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1983 - Arsenium, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1984 - Kinzie Kenner, American actress
1984 - Stewart Downing, English footballer
1988 - Taylor Toth, American figure skater

Deaths

1362 - Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (poisoned) (b. 1324)
1387 - Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
1461 - King Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
1525 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
1540 - John Zápolya, King of Hungary
1619 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
1645 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
1676 - Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
1713 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
1734 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England
1789 - Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (executed) (b. 1715)
1802 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist (b. 1771)
1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)
1832 - Emperor Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)
1852 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
1904 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
1908 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
1915 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
1918 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian World War I pilot (killed in combat) (b. 1898)
1922 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
1932 - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (b. 1867)
1934 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (shot) (b. 1903)
1950 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, tenth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1958 - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
1967 - Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
1974 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (b. 1900)
1979 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1989 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
1990 - Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)
1998 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2000 - Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
2000 - Alexander Dallin, Stanford Professor (b. 1924)
2003 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
2003 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
2003 - Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2004 - Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2004 - George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician (shot) (b. 1978)

Holidays and observances

Catholic - the feasts of at least 7 saints:
- St. Mary Magdalene
- St. Dabius/Davius
- St. Joseph of Palestine (Count Joseph)
- St. Mineve
- St. Vandrille/Wandre Gisilus
Swaziland - Birthday of former King Sobhuza II
Pi Approximation Day
Ratcatcher's Day. See:The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

External links

BBC: On This Day

21 July - 23 July - 22 June - 22 August -- listing of all days

Gourt Home::Gourt :: July 22

Events

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