Notable Historical Events on July 22nd
July 22nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
259 |
St Dionysius elected as Pope, succeeding Sixtus II |
1099 |
First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem. |
1298 |
English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk |
1306 |
King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France |
1456 |
Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II |
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. |
1489 |
"Tractate Niddah" a talmudic edition, 1st printed |
1489 |
Treaty of Frankfurt signed between Maximilian of Austria and King Charles VIII of France |
1515 |
First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland & Holy Roman Empire - rise of the Habsburgs influence |
1535 |
Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Adm Barbarossa |
1582 |
Willem van Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft |
1587 |
2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC |
1627 |
English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [OS=June 12] |
1632 |
Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for king Philip IV |
1648 |
10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre during Khmelnytsky Uprising |
1686 |
City of Albany, NY chartered |
1691 |
Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France |
1729 |
Diamonds found in Minas Geras Brazil |
1731 |
Spain signs Treaty of Vienna |
1739 |
Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia & threaten Belgrade |
1775 |
George Washington takes command of US troops |
1793 |
Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada. |
1796 |
Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland |
1812 |
Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain |
1859 |
V E Walker takes 10-74 in an innings for England v Surrey |
1864 |
Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8449 conf, 3641 US die |
1865 |
V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex v Lancs |
1893 |
Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" in Colorado |
1898 |
Crew of Belgium RV Belgica see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs - 1st expedition to endure Antarctic winter |
1901 |
Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro |
1901 |
British House of Lords, in its role as court, rules trade unions can be sued for actions of its members - in Taff Vale Case |
1905 |
Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0 |
1912 |
5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes |
1912 |
In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea |
1916 |
A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10 |
1917 |
British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades |
1918 |
Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park |
1919 |
De Falla & Massine's "Three-cornered Hat" premieres in London |
1921 |
25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD |
1922 |
Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St Louis teams are on top |
1923 |
Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508) |
1925 |
Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher |
1926 |
105°F (41°C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record) |
1926 |
108°F (42°C), Troy, NY (state record) |
1926 |
Cin Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning |
1933 |
1st solo flight round the world 7d 19hrs (Wiley Post) |
1933 |
Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida", NYC-1st negro prima donna in US |
1934 |
Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents. |
1935 |
Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia |
1936 |
Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs |
1937 |
Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections |
1937 |
Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court |
1939 |
Jane Bolin becomes the 1st African American female judge (NY) |
1940 |
Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks |
1942 |
4th Russian army forms with 80 tanks |
1942 |
Gasoline rationing using coupons begins |
1942 |
Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp |
1943 |
US forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily |
1944 |
Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation |
1946 |
Estelle Bennett, rocker (Ronettes) |
1946 |
Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel |
1947 |
-8°F (-13°C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record) |
1950 |
Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge |
1950 |
King Leopold returns to Belgium after 6 years in exile |
1951 |
General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal |
1952 |
Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution |
1954 |
US Virgin Islands adopt constitution (Revised Organic Act) |
1954 |
WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon |
1955 |
Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11 |
1958 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island |
1959 |
Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D premieres |
1959 |
Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen |
1960 |
Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories |
1961 |
WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off |
1962 |
44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink GC PA |
1962 |
Chicago White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles) |
1962 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament |
1963 |
Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles" |
1963 |
Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
1965 |
Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of Brit Cons party |
1967 |
1st major appearance by Vanilla Fudge (Village Theater NYC) |
1967 |
Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in 9th inning |
1967 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Ladies' Golf Open |
1967 |
Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour |
1968 |
Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state school system |
1969 |
Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit |
1969 |
USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite |
1971 |
Sudanese military counter-coup under premier Numeiry |
1972 |
10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record) |
1972 |
Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus |
1972 |
2 Catholics are abducted, beaten, and shot dead in a Loyalist area of Belfast |
1973 |
28th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
1975 |
US House of Representives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee |
1976 |
"Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 106 performances |
1979 |
Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
1981 |
Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life |
1982 |
Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle |
1983 |
-128.6°F (-89.2°C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record) |
1983 |
Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games |
1983 |
Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world |
1983 |
Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law |
1984 |
113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St Andrews |
1984 |
22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1) |
1984 |
Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win) |
1984 |
Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France |
1986 |
House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion |
1987 |
Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome |
1987 |
Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian) |
1987 |
US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf |
1988 |
500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research |
1989 |
Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1990 |
119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St Andrews Scotland |
1990 |
90th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson |
1990 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament |
1990 |
Greg LeMond of US wins his 3rd Tour de France |
1991 |
Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978 |
1992 |
Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison |
1992 |
Soyuz TM-15 launches |
1993 |
NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR |
1993 |
Soyuz TM-17 lands |
1994 |
23rd & last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th) |
1994 |
Doc Gooden admitted to Betty Ford Center |
1994 |
Mariners play Red Sox as home team at Fenway, as Kingdome is repaired |
1994 |
Military coup in Gambia: Pres Dawda Jawara flees |
1994 |
OJ Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder |
1994 |
William Sigei runs world record 10k (26:52.53) |
1995 |
Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), lands |
1995 |
Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her two children in South Carolina |
1997 |
Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris |
1997 |
The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario. |
1997 |
Greg Maddux throws a complete game with just 76 pitches |
1997 |
The first shipments of oil produced from Kazakhstan's Tengiz field arrive at terminals on the Black Sea for subsequent export through the Bosphoros Strait |
2001 |
130th British Golf Open: David Duval shoots a 274 at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club |
2002 |
Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians. |
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. See 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings |
2007 |
136th British Golf Open: Pádraig Harrington shoots a 277 at Carnoustie Golf Links |
2011 |
Norway 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. |
2012 |
Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq |
2012 |
Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India |
2012 |
At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China |
2012 |
141st British Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 273 at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club |
2013 |
89 people are killed and 500 are injured by earthquakes in Gansu province, China |
2013 |
Mike Babcock is named head coach of Team Canada for the second team, this time for the 2014 Winter Olympics (they would repeat as gold medalists) |
2016 |
Second Possible Zika Infection Is Found in Florida |
2016 |
Americas|Brazilian Scientists ID Common Mosquito as a Zika Source |
2016 |
Pokemon GO launches in Japan, bringing global smash-hit game home |
2016 |
NBA pulls All-Star Game from Charlotte over transgender law-report |
2016 |
Fox News chief Ailes resigns after sexual harassment claims |
2016 |
Ted Cruz's non-endorsement brought attacks, but long-term impact unclear |
2017 |
Six dead in worst Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed for years |
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