What happened on July 22? There are more than 281 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About July 22
July 22 is the 204th day of the year 2024. There are 162 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 30th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Lexington, Kentucky 40594 sunrise will occur at 06:31 AM and sunset will occur at 08:56 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Cancer. The modern birthstone for this month is Ruby while the mystical birthstone is Ruby.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 191 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For July 22
- 838Battle of Anzen: the Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
- 1099First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1298Wars 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.
- 1456Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire
- 1484Battle 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.
- 1499Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
- 1587Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
- 1686Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
- 1706The 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.
- 1793Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
- 1796Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio “Cleveland” after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
- 1797Battle 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.
- 1805Napoleonic 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.
- 1812Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
- 1864American 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.
- 1894The 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.
- 1916In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
- 1933Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15596 mi in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
- 1934Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
- 1937New 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.
- 1942Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
- 1942The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
- 1943World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
- 1944The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
- 1946King 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.
- 1951Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, “Gypsy”) are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
- 1962Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
- 1976Japan 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
- 1977Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
- 1983Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
- 1991Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
- 1992Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
- 1993Great Flood of 1993: levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
- 1997The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
- 2002Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas’s military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
- 2003Members 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.
- 2005Jean 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.
- 2011Norway 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.
Who Were Born On July 22?
- 1210Joan of England, Queen of Scots, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
- 1478King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
- 1510Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
- 1535Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
- 1559Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
- 1621Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1683)
- 1711Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
- 1713Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
- 1733Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
- 1755Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839)
- 1784Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
- 1844William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
- 1848Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
- 1849Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
- 1863Alec Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1952)
- 1878Janusz Korczak, Polish children’s author and pediatrician (d. 1942)
- 1882Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
- 1887Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
- 1888Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
- 1888Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
- 1889James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
- 1890Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American Kennedy family matriarch (d. 1995)
- 1892Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983)
- 1893Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
- 1893Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
- 1895León de Greiff, Colombian poet (d. 1976)
- 1898Alexander Calder, American sculptor and inventor (d. 1976)
- 1898Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer and novelist (d. 1943)
- 1908Amy Vanderbilt, American etiquette authority (d. 1974)
- 1909Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
- 1913Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
- 1913Licia Albanese, American opera singer
- 1915Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (d. 2000)
- 1916Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
- 1916Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
- 1921William V. Roth, Jr., American politician (d. 2003)
- 1922Dick Hoerner, American football player (d. 2010)
- 1922Orson Bean, American actor
- 1923Bob Dole, American politician, 1996 Republican Presidential candidate
- 1923Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
- 1923The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
- 1924Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
- 1926Bryan Forbes, English film director, actor and writer
- 1928Orson Bean, American film actor
- 1929John Barber, British racing driver
- 1932Oscar De la Renta, Dominican fashion designer
- 1934Louise Fletcher, American actress
- 1935Tom Cartwright, English cricketer (d. 2007)
- 1936Tom Robbins, American novelist
- 1937Chuck Jackson, R&B singer
- 1937John Price, English cricketer
- 1937Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer
- 1937Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
- 1939Gila Almagor, Israeli actress
- 1939Terence Stamp, English actor
- 1940Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host
- 1940Judith Walzer Leavitt, American college professor
- 1941George Clinton, American singer and musician (Parliament, Funkadelic)
- 1941Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
- 1942Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer
- 1943Bobby Sherman, American singer and actor
- 1943Kay Bailey Hutchison, American politician
- 1944Anand Satyanand, New Zealander politician
- 1944Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
- 1944Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes) (d. 2009)
- 1944Rick Davies, British keyboardist (Supertramp)
- 1944Sparky Lyle, American baseball player
- 1946Danny Glover, American actor
- 1946Johnson Toribiong, President of Palau
- 1946Mireille Mathieu, French singer
- 1946Paul Schrader, American film director and screenwriter
- 1946Stephen M. Wolownik, American musicologist (d. 2000)
- 1947Albert Brooks, American comedian
- 1947Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and drummer (Eagles)
- 1947Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
- 1948Otto Waalkes, German comedian
- 1948S. E. Hinton, American novelist
- 1949Alan Menken, American composer
- 1949Emir Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai
- 1949Lasse Virén, Finnish long distance runner
- 1951J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979)
- 1951Patriarch Daniel of Romania, Head of the Romanian Orthodox Church
- 1953Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist
- 1953Paul Quarrington, Canadian playwright and educator (d. 2010)
- 1953Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
- 1954Al Di Meola, American guitarist
- 1954Lonette McKee, American actress
- 1954Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor
- 1954Steve LaTourette, American politician
- 1955Willem Dafoe, American actor
- 1957Dave Stieb, American baseball player
- 1958David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1984)
- 1958Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and coach
- 1960Jon Oliva, American vocalist and keyboardist (Savatage)
- 1961Calvin Fish, English racing driver
- 1961Keith Sweat, American singer
- 1962Alvin Robertson, American basketball player
- 1962Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer
- 1963Emilio Butragueño, Spanish footballer
- 1963Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls)
- 1963Rob Estes, American actor
- 1964Adam Godley, British actor
- 1964Bonnie Langford, English actress and dancer
- 1964David Spade, American actor and comedian
- 1964Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist
- 1964John Leguizamo, Colombian actor
- 1964Rafael Addison, American basketball player
- 1965Doug Riesenberg, American football player
- 1965Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor
- 1965Shawn Michaels, American professional wrestler
- 1966Shaun Cohen, South African professional wrestler
- 1966Tim Brown, American football player
- 1967Irene Bedard, American actress
- 1967Lauren Booth, British journalist
- 1968Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
- 1969Despina Vandi, Greek singer
- 1970Craig Baird, New Zealand racing driver
- 1970Jason Becker, American musician
- 1970Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1971Kristine Lilly, American footballer
- 1972Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
- 1972Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
- 1972Seth Fisher, American comic book artist and penciller (d. 2006)
- 1973Daniel Jones, English-born Australian musician (Savage Garden)
- 1973Mike Sweeney, American baseball player
- 1973Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
- 1973Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer
- 1974Amean J, Pakistani photographer
- 1974Franka Potente, German actress
- 1974Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress
- 1975Sam Jacobson, American basketball player
- 1976Kokia, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1977Ezio Galon, Italian rugby player
- 1977Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
- 1978A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
- 1978Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
- 1978Martyn Lee, English radio presenter
- 1978Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer
- 1979James Mason, British professional wrestler
- 1979Lucas Luhr, German racing driver
- 1979Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
- 1980Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
- 1980Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
- 1980Scott Dixon, New Zealand racing driver
- 1980Tablo, Korean hip-hop musician (Epik High)
- 1981Ala Ghawas, Bahraini singer and songwriter
- 1982Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1983Arsenie Todiraş, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
- 1983Clemens von Grumbkow, German rugby player
- 1983Dries Devenyns, Belgian cyclist
- 1983Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model
- 1983Steven Jackson, American football player
- 1984Stewart Downing, English footballer
- 1985Akira Tozawa, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1985Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-born American rugby player
- 1986Steve Johnson, American football player
- 1987Charlotte Kalla, Swedish cross-country skier
- 1988Jeremy Schilling, Jewish-American radio personality
- 1988Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer
- 1991Matthew James, English footballer
- 1992Selena Gomez, American actress and pop singer
- 1993Amber Beattie, English actress
- 1996Skyler Gisondo, American actor
- 1997Field Cate, American actor
- 1998Madison Pettis, American actress
- 2002Prince Felix of Denmark, Danish royalty
Who Died On July 22?
- 1362Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
- 1387Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
- 1461Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
- 1525Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (b. c. 1426)
- 1540John Zápolya, Voivode of Transylvania and King of Hungary (b. 1487)
- 1619Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
- 1633Trijntje Keever, Dutch woman presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b. 1616)
- 1645Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
- 1676Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
- 1726Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (birth year unknown)
- 1734Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1669)
- 1789Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)
- 1802Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist (b. 1771)
- 1824Thomas McNamara Russell, Royal Navy admiral
- 1826Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)
- 1832Napoleon II, Emperor of the French and King of Rome (b. 1811)
- 1852Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
- 1864James B. McPherson, American army general, in the Battle of Atlanta (b. 1828)
- 1869John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (b. 1806)
- 1902Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)
- 1903Cassius Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
- 1904Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
- 1906William Snodgrass, Canadian Presbyterian minister and the sixth Principal of Queen’s College, now Queen’s University (b. 1827)
- 1908William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
- 1915Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
- 1916James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (b. 1849)
- 1918Indra Lal Roy, Indian flying ace (b. 1898)
- 1920William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
- 1922Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
- 1932Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
- 1932Florenz Ziegfeld, American theatrical producer (b. 1867)
- 1932Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
- 1934John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903)
- 1950William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
- 1958Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
- 1967Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
- 1968Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908)
- 1970George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (b. 1912)
- 1974Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (b. 1900)
- 1979J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
- 1979Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
- 1986Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
- 1988Duane Jones, American actor (b. 1936)
- 1989Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
- 1990Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)
- 1992Wayne McLaren, American stuntman, actor and rodeo rider who portrayed the Marlboro Man (b. 1940)
- 1995Harold Larwood, English cricketer (b. 1904)
- 1996Rob Collins, English keyboardist (The Charlatans) (b. 1956)
- 1998Fritz Buchloh, German football player and coach (b. 1909)
- 1998Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
- 1999Gar Samuelson, American drummer (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
- 2000Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)
- 2000Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)
- 2000Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
- 2001Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
- 2003Qusay Hussein, Iraqi politician, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
- 2003Uday Hussein, Iraqi politician, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
- 2003Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
- 2004George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
- 2004Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
- 2004Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
- 2005Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
- 2005Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician (b. 1978)
- 2006James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)
- 2006José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
- 2007Jarrod Cunningham, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
- 2007László Kovács, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (b. 1933)
- 2007Mike Coolbaugh, American baseball player and coach (b. 1972)
- 2007Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
- 2007Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
- 2008Estelle Getty, American comedic actress (b. 1923)
- 2008Greg Burson, American voice actor (b. 1949)
- 2009Peter Krieg, German documentary filmmaker, producer and writer (b. 1947)
- 2009Richard M. Givan, Indiana Supreme Court chief justice (b. 1921)
- 2010Kenny Guinn, American politician (b. 1936)
- 2011Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
- 2011Tore Eikeland, Norwegian politician (b. 1990)
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