July 22
July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years ) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar , with 162 days remaining.
Events
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 - inconclusive battle of Cape Finisterre fought between combined French and Spanish fleets under Admiral Villeneuve and British under Admiral Calder .
1812 - Peninsular War : British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington ) defeat French troops near Salamanca in 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 - Holocaust : The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
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 .
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.
Births
1519 - Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
1784 - Friedrich Bessel , mathematician
1822 - Gregor Mendel , Austrian pioneering geneticist (d. 1884 )
1844 - William Archibald Spooner , known for verbal inversions called spoonerisms (d. 1930 )
1859 - Emma Lazarus , American poet (d. 1887 )
1882 - Edward Hopper , painter (d. 1967 )
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz , quantum physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1975 )
1890 - Rose Kennedy , mother of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1995 )
1893 - James Whale , film director (d. 1957 )
1894 - Oskar Maria Graf , writer (d. 1967 )
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét , American author (d. 1943 )
1898 - Alexander Calder , artist (d. 1976 )
1905 - Doc Cramer , Major League Baseball player (d. 1990 )
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt , author on etiquette
1913 - Gorni Kramer , Italian bandleader and songwriter
1916 - Marcel Cerdan , world champion boxer (d. 1949 )
1923 - Bob Dole - Senator from Kansas, U.S. presidential candidate
1923 - Mukesh , singer (d. 1976 )
1924 - Margaret Whiting , singer
1932 - Oscar De la Renta , fashion designer
1934 - Louise Fletcher , Academy Award -winning actress in 1976
1936 - Tom Robbins , author
1939 - Terence Stamp , actor
1939 - Erhard Walther , artist
1940 - Alex Trebek , American game show host
1941 - George Clinton , musician
1944 - Estelle Bennett , singer, (Ronettes )
1946 - Mireille Mathieu , French singer
1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik , Russia musician (d. 2000 )
1947 - Albert Brooks , comedian
1947 - Danny Glover , actor
1947 - Don Henley , drummer, singer, songwriter
1948 - Otto Waalkes , comedian
1948 - S.E. Hinton , author
1949 - Alan Menken , composer
1954 - Al Di Meola , guitarist
1955 - Willem Dafoe , actor
1961 - Keith Sweat , singer
1964 - David Spade , comedian
1965 - Shawn Michaels , professional wrestler
1971 - Kristine Lilly , American soccer player
1972 - Paulinho , footballer
1973 - Rufus Wainwright , singer and songwriter
1983 - Shelby Belle , actress
Deaths
1461 - Charles VII of France (b. 1403 )
1645 - Gaspar de Guzman , Count of Olivares, Duke of San Lucar
1676 - Pope Clement X
1832 - Napoleon II of France
1904 - Wilson Barrett , actor
1916 - James Whitcomb Riley , author, poet
1922 - Jokichi Takamine , chemist
1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. , theatrical producer
1934 - John Dillinger , bank robber, shot at the Biograph Theater in Chicago
1950 - William Lyon Mackenzie King , tenth Prime Minister of Canada
1967 - Carl Sandburg , poet
1974 - Wayne Morse , former Senator from Oregon
1989 - Martti Talvela , Finnish bass (b. 1935 )
1990 - Manuel Puig , author
1998 - Hermann Prey , German bass-baritone (b. 1929 )
1998 - Alan Shepard , astronaut
2000 - Eric Christmas , actor
2003 - Wahome Muthahi , Kenyan humourist
2003 - Qusay Hussein of Iraq , son of Saddam Hussein
2003 - Uday Hussein of Iraq , son of Saddam Hussein
2004 - Sacha Distel , singer
2004 - George Kidd , Canadian diplomat
Holidays and observances
External links
July 21 - July 23 - June 22 - August 22 -- listing of all days
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