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July 22July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. (David Albing, creator of the elf deck was born on this day) 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 Medelln, 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, pioneering geneticist (d. 1884)
- 1844 - William Archibald Spooner, known for verbal inversions called spoonerisms (d. 1930)
- 1849 - Emma Lazarus, poet
- 1882 - Edward Hopper, painter (d. 1967)
- 1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, quantum physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 (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 Bent, author (d. 1943)
- 1898 - Alexander Calder, artist (d. 1976)
- 1905 - Doc Cramer, Major League Baseball center fielder (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 - former Senator from Kansas, former Presidential candidate
- 1923 - Mukesh, singer (d. 1976)
- 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
- 1944 - Estelle Bennett, singer, member of the Ronettes
- 1946 - Mireille Mathieu, singer
- 1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik, pioneering Russian-music ensemble leader and arrangist (d. 2000)
- 1947 - Albert Brooks, comedian
- 1947 - Danny Glover, actor
- 1947 - Don Henley, drummer, singer, songwriter
- 1948 - Otto Waalkes, comedian
- 1949 - Alan Menken, composer
- 1954 - Al Di Meola, guitarist
- 1955 - Willem Dafoe, actor
- 1961 - Keith Sweat, R&B/Soul singer
- 1964 - David Spade, comedian
- 1965 - Shawn Michaels, professional wrestler
- 1971 - Kristine Lilly, American soccer star, all-time US leader in international matches played (men or women)
- 1972 - Paulinho, major Corinthians soccer player
- 1973 - Rufus Wainwright, singer, songwriter
- 1983 - Shelby Belle, pornographic 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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