WillDekkard
07-22-2010, 05:52 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - July 22nd
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* 838 Battle of Anzen: the Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
* 1099 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
* 1298 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town.
* 1456 Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade John Hunyadi, Regent of Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of Ottoman Empire
* 1484 Battle 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.
* 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 North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
* 1686 Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
* 1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
* 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 Battle of Cape Finisterre an inconclusive naval action is 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 Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
* 1894 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.
* 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 the 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 World War II: 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.
* 1951 Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") were the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
* 1962 Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
* 1976 Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed in Japan's imperial conquest of the country in the Second World War
* 1977 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
* 1983 Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
* 1992 Near Medellνn, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
* 1993 Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
* 1997 The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
* 2002 Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
* 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 Jean 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.
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This Date in History - July 22nd
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* 838 Battle of Anzen: the Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
* 1099 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
* 1298 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town.
* 1456 Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade John Hunyadi, Regent of Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of Ottoman Empire
* 1484 Battle 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.
* 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 North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
* 1686 Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
* 1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
* 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 Battle of Cape Finisterre an inconclusive naval action is 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 Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
* 1894 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.
* 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 the 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 World War II: 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.
* 1951 Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") were the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
* 1962 Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
* 1976 Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed in Japan's imperial conquest of the country in the Second World War
* 1977 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
* 1983 Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
* 1992 Near Medellνn, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
* 1993 Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
* 1997 The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
* 2002 Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
* 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 Jean 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.
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