July 22

July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar, with 162 days remaining.

Events

   * 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.
   * 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 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, Illinois'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, Wisconsin apartment.
   * 1992 - Near Medellin, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from
     his luxury prison fearing extradiction to the United States.

Births

   * 1784 - Friedrich Bessel, mathematician
   * 1822 - Gregor Mendel, pioneering geneticist (+ 1884)
   * 1849 - Emma Lazarus, poet
   * 1882 - Edward Hopper, painter (+ 1967)
   * 1887 - Gustav Hertz, quantum physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
     Physics 1925 (+ 1975)
   * 1890 - Rose Kennedy, mother of President John F. Kennedy (+ 1995)
   * 1893 - James Whale, film director (+ 1957)
   * 1894 - Oskar Maria Graf, writer (+ 1967)
   * 1898 - Stephen Vincent Benet, author (+ 1943)
   * 1898 - Alexander Calder, qrtist (+ 1976)
   * 1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, author on etiquette
   * 1916 - Marcel Cerdan, World Champion Boxer (+ 1949)
   * 1923 - Bob Dole - former Senator from Kansas, former Presidential
     candidate
   * 1924 - Margaret Whiting, singer
   * 1932 - Oscar De la Renta, fashion designer
   * 1934 - Louise Fletcher, actress, won Academy Award for Best Actress in
     1976
   * 1936 - Tom Robbins, author
   * 1939 - Terence Stamp, actor
   * 1939 - Erhard Walther, artist
   * 1940 - Alex Trebek, game show host
   * 1941 - George Clinton, musician
   * 1946 - Mireille Mathieu, singer
   * 1947 - Albert Brooks, comedian
   * 1947 - Danny Glover, actor
   * 1947 - Don Henley, drummer, singer, songwriter
   * 1948 - Otto Waalkes, comedian
   * 1954 - Al DiMeola
   * 1955 - Willem Dafoe, actor

Deaths

   * 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
   * 1990 - Manuel Puig, author
   * 1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut
   * 2000 - Eric Christmas, actor
   * 2003 - Qusay Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein
   * 2003 - Uday Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein

Holidays and observances

   * Saint Mary Magdalene
   * Swaziland - Birthday of former King Sobhuza II
   * Pi Approximation Day
   * Ratcatcher's Day. See:The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

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