On this day in History - Jul 22
1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
1461 - Charles VII of France dies (b. 1403) . King of France (1422-61)
1499 - Battle of Dornach The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I
1461 - Charles VII of France dies (b. 1403) . King of France (1422-61)
1499 - Battle of Dornach The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I
1519 - Pope Innocent IX was born (d. 1591)
1587 - Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1621 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, was born (d. 1683). English politician
1645 - Gaspar de Guzman, dies. Count of Olivares, Duke of San Lucar
1676 - Pope Clement X dies.
1702 - O português Pedro Vaz de Sequeira assume (pela 2º vez) o governo de Macau
1734 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, dies. Lord Chancellor of England
1784 - Friedrich Bessel, was born. Mathematician
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.
1822 - Gregor Mendel, was born (1884). Austrian geneticist.
1832 - Napoleon II of France dies
1844 - William Archibald Spooner, was born (d. 1930). Known for verbal inversions called spoonerisms.
1859 - Emma Lazarus, was born (d. 1887). American poet.
1863 - Decreto de D. Luís I estabelece a criação do Museu da Marinha - Portugal
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.
1868 - Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
1882 - Edward Hopper, was born (d. 1967). Painter.
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, was born (d. 1975). German quantum physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1888 - Nascimento de Selman Abraham Waksman. Bioquímico americano - Prémio Nobel em 1952.
1890 - Rose Kennedy, was born (d. 1995).mother of John F. Kennedy.
1893 - James Whale, was born (d. 1957). Film director.
1894 - Oskar Maria Graf, was born (†28.6.1967). German writer. He was involved in the 1918 March Revolution and was forced into exile in the USA for his anti-fascist views in 1933. Some of his novels warn of the dangers of national socialism and others are utopian.
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét, was born (d. 1943). American author.
1898 - Alexander Calder, was born (d. 1976). American artist.
1904 - Wilson Barrett, dies. Actor
1905 - Doc Cramer, was born (d. 1990). Baseball player.
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, was born. Author on etiquette
1908 - Albert Fisher establishes the Fisher Body Company to manufacture carriage and automobile bodies.
1908 - Morte de Sir Randal Cremer. Prémio Nobel da Paz em 1903.
1912 - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes.
1913 - Gorni Kramer, was born. Italian bandleader and songwriter
1916 - Marcel Cerdan, was born (d. 1949). Boxer.
1916- In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, dies. Author, poet.
1918 - Morte do escritor peruano Manuel González Prada
1922 - Jokichi Takamine, dies. Chemist
1923 - Bob Dole was born. U.S. Senator from Kansas and Presidential candidate
1923 - Mukesh, was born (d. 1976). Singer.
1924 - Margaret Whiting, was born. Singer.
1925 - Petrol from coal. The chemists, Fischer and Tropsch, patented a process for making carbon dioxide from coal
1932 - Oscar De la Renta, was born. Fashion designer .
1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., dies. Theatrical producer.
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 - Louise Fletcher, was born. Academy Award-winning actress in 1976
1934 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1934 - John Dillinger, dies. Bank robber, shot at the Biograph Theater in Chicago
1936 - Tom Robbins, was born. Author
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.
1939 - Terence Stamp, was born. Actor
1939 - Erhard Walther, was born. Artist
1940 - Alex Trebek, was born. Canadian-born game show host
1941 - George Clinton, was born. Musician
1941 - Invasão da União Soviética pelo exército alemão, dando início à «Operação Barbarossa».
1942 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
1944 - Estelle Bennett, was born. Singer (Ronettes)
1946 - Mireille Mathieu, was born. French singer
1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik, was born (d. 2000). Russia musician.
1946 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.
1947 - Albert Brooks, was born. Comedian
1947 - Danny Glover, was born. Actor
1947 - Don Henley, was born. Drummer, singer, and songwriter
1948 - Otto Waalkes, was born. Comedian
1948 - S.E. Hinton, was born. Author
1949 - Alan Menken, was born. Composer
1949 - Lasse Viren, was born. Finnish athlete. 5000 and 10000 metres running olympic gold medalist 1972 and 1976, 5th in marathon 1976 Olympics.
1950 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, dies. Tenth Prime Minister of Canada
1952 - Polish constitution adopted (National Day)
1954 - Al Di Meola, was born. Guitarist
1955 - Willem Dafoe, was born. Actor
1961 - Keith Sweat, was born. Singer
1962 - Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1964 - Steve Ballesteros wins the Britsh Golf Open
1964 - David Spade, was born. Comedian
1964 - Patrick Labyorteaux,was born. American actor
1965 - Shawn Michaels, was born. Professional wrestler
1967 - Carl Sandburg, dies. Poet
1971 - Kristine Lilly, was born. American soccer player
1973 - Rufus Wainwright, was born. Singer and songwriter
1974 - Wayne Morse, dies. Former Senator from Oregon.
1974 - Morte da escritora salvadorenha Claudia Lars.
1975 - Markus Metzenthin, was born. Economist.
1976 - Nina Moric was born in Zagabria, Croatia. Actress and model. She was the runner-up in the 1996 Elite "Look Of The Year" contest
1977 - Brian Rohr, was born. Artist, healer
1977 - Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1983 - Shelby Belle, was born. Actress .
1986 - Great Britain bans the cane as punishment in the schools
1987 - Joshua Small, was born. Singer, songwriter.
1988 - Morte do pintor italiano Luigi Lucioni
1989 - Martti Talvela, dies (b. 1935). Finnish bass.
1990 - Manuel Puig, dies. Author .
1990 - Greg Lemond of US wins bicycling's 3rd tour de France
1990 - Nick Faldo of England wins the British Open Golf championship
1991 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee apartment.
1992 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1994 - O. J. Simpson é julgado inocente da morte de sua ex-mulher.
1994 - Prisão de Jeffrey Dahmer. Serial killer norte-americano
1997 - The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
1998 - Hermann Prey, dies (b. 1929). German bass-baritone.
2000 - Eric Christmas, dies (b. 1916). British actor.
1587 - Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1621 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, was born (d. 1683). English politician
1645 - Gaspar de Guzman, dies. Count of Olivares, Duke of San Lucar
1676 - Pope Clement X dies.
1702 - O português Pedro Vaz de Sequeira assume (pela 2º vez) o governo de Macau
1734 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, dies. Lord Chancellor of England
1784 - Friedrich Bessel, was born. Mathematician
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.
1822 - Gregor Mendel, was born (1884). Austrian geneticist.
1832 - Napoleon II of France dies
1844 - William Archibald Spooner, was born (d. 1930). Known for verbal inversions called spoonerisms.
1859 - Emma Lazarus, was born (d. 1887). American poet.
1863 - Decreto de D. Luís I estabelece a criação do Museu da Marinha - Portugal
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.
1868 - Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
1882 - Edward Hopper, was born (d. 1967). Painter.
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, was born (d. 1975). German quantum physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1888 - Nascimento de Selman Abraham Waksman. Bioquímico americano - Prémio Nobel em 1952.
1890 - Rose Kennedy, was born (d. 1995).mother of John F. Kennedy.
1893 - James Whale, was born (d. 1957). Film director.
1894 - Oskar Maria Graf, was born (†28.6.1967). German writer. He was involved in the 1918 March Revolution and was forced into exile in the USA for his anti-fascist views in 1933. Some of his novels warn of the dangers of national socialism and others are utopian.
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét, was born (d. 1943). American author.
1898 - Alexander Calder, was born (d. 1976). American artist.
1904 - Wilson Barrett, dies. Actor
1905 - Doc Cramer, was born (d. 1990). Baseball player.
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, was born. Author on etiquette
1908 - Albert Fisher establishes the Fisher Body Company to manufacture carriage and automobile bodies.
1908 - Morte de Sir Randal Cremer. Prémio Nobel da Paz em 1903.
1912 - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes.
1913 - Gorni Kramer, was born. Italian bandleader and songwriter
1916 - Marcel Cerdan, was born (d. 1949). Boxer.
1916- In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, dies. Author, poet.
1918 - Morte do escritor peruano Manuel González Prada
1922 - Jokichi Takamine, dies. Chemist
1923 - Bob Dole was born. U.S. Senator from Kansas and Presidential candidate
1923 - Mukesh, was born (d. 1976). Singer.
1924 - Margaret Whiting, was born. Singer.
1925 - Petrol from coal. The chemists, Fischer and Tropsch, patented a process for making carbon dioxide from coal
1932 - Oscar De la Renta, was born. Fashion designer .
1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., dies. Theatrical producer.
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 - Louise Fletcher, was born. Academy Award-winning actress in 1976
1934 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1934 - John Dillinger, dies. Bank robber, shot at the Biograph Theater in Chicago
1936 - Tom Robbins, was born. Author
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.
1939 - Terence Stamp, was born. Actor
1939 - Erhard Walther, was born. Artist
1940 - Alex Trebek, was born. Canadian-born game show host
1941 - George Clinton, was born. Musician
1941 - Invasão da União Soviética pelo exército alemão, dando início à «Operação Barbarossa».
1942 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
1944 - Estelle Bennett, was born. Singer (Ronettes)
1946 - Mireille Mathieu, was born. French singer
1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik, was born (d. 2000). Russia musician.
1946 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.
1947 - Albert Brooks, was born. Comedian
1947 - Danny Glover, was born. Actor
1947 - Don Henley, was born. Drummer, singer, and songwriter
1948 - Otto Waalkes, was born. Comedian
1948 - S.E. Hinton, was born. Author
1949 - Alan Menken, was born. Composer
1949 - Lasse Viren, was born. Finnish athlete. 5000 and 10000 metres running olympic gold medalist 1972 and 1976, 5th in marathon 1976 Olympics.
1950 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, dies. Tenth Prime Minister of Canada
1952 - Polish constitution adopted (National Day)
1954 - Al Di Meola, was born. Guitarist
1955 - Willem Dafoe, was born. Actor
1961 - Keith Sweat, was born. Singer
1962 - Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1964 - Steve Ballesteros wins the Britsh Golf Open
1964 - David Spade, was born. Comedian
1964 - Patrick Labyorteaux,was born. American actor
1965 - Shawn Michaels, was born. Professional wrestler
1967 - Carl Sandburg, dies. Poet
1971 - Kristine Lilly, was born. American soccer player
1973 - Rufus Wainwright, was born. Singer and songwriter
1974 - Wayne Morse, dies. Former Senator from Oregon.
1974 - Morte da escritora salvadorenha Claudia Lars.
1975 - Markus Metzenthin, was born. Economist.
1976 - Nina Moric was born in Zagabria, Croatia. Actress and model. She was the runner-up in the 1996 Elite "Look Of The Year" contest
1977 - Brian Rohr, was born. Artist, healer
1977 - Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1983 - Shelby Belle, was born. Actress .
1986 - Great Britain bans the cane as punishment in the schools
1987 - Joshua Small, was born. Singer, songwriter.
1988 - Morte do pintor italiano Luigi Lucioni
1989 - Martti Talvela, dies (b. 1935). Finnish bass.
1990 - Manuel Puig, dies. Author .
1990 - Greg Lemond of US wins bicycling's 3rd tour de France
1990 - Nick Faldo of England wins the British Open Golf championship
1991 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee apartment.
1992 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1994 - O. J. Simpson é julgado inocente da morte de sua ex-mulher.
1994 - Prisão de Jeffrey Dahmer. Serial killer norte-americano
1997 - The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
1998 - Hermann Prey, dies (b. 1929). German bass-baritone.
2000 - Eric Christmas, dies (b. 1916). British actor.
2002 - O brasileiro Sérgio Vieira de Mello é escolhido para chefiar a Comissão de Direitos Humanos da ONU
2003 - Wahome Muthahi, dies, Kenyan humourist
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.
2004 - Sacha Distel, dies. Singer
2004 - George Kidd, dies. Canadian diplomat.
2003 - Wahome Muthahi, dies, Kenyan humourist
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.
2004 - Sacha Distel, dies. Singer
2004 - George Kidd, dies. Canadian diplomat.
2004 - Morte do saxofonista norte-americano Illinois Jacquet
2004 - O português José Manuel Durão Barroso é confirmado para presidir a Comissão Europeia
Saint Mary Magdalene
Swaziland - Birthday of former King Sobhuza II
Pi Approximation Day
Ratcatcher's Day. See:The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
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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