Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 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. 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 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, Illinois'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, Wisconsin apartment. 1992 - Near Medellin, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradiction to the United States. 2003 - Members 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 1784 - Friedrich Bessel, mathematician 1822 - Gregor Mendel, pioneering geneticist († 1884) 1849 - Emma Lazarus, poet 1882 - Edward Hopper, painter († 1967) 1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, quantum physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 († 1975) 1890 - Rose Kennedy, mother of President John F. Kennedy († 1995) 1893 - James Whale, film director († 1957) 1894 - Oskar Maria Graf, writer († 1967) 1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét, author († 1943) 1898 - Alexander Calder, artist († 1976) 1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, author on etiquette 1916 - Marcel Cerdan, World Champion Boxer († 1949) 1923 - Bob Dole - former Senator from Kansas, former Presidential candidate 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 1946 - Mireille Mathieu, singer 1947 - Albert Brooks, comedian 1947 - Danny Glover, actor 1947 - Don Henley, drummer, singer, songwriter 1948 - Otto Waalkes, comedian 1954 - Al DiMeola 1955 - Willem Dafoe, actor 1971 - Kristine Lilly, American soccer star, all-time leader in international matches played (men or women) 1975 - Markus Metzenthin, economist Deaths 1645 - Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Duke of San Lucar 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 1990 - Manuel Puig, author 1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut 2000 - Eric Christmas, actor 2003 - Qusay Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein 2003 - Uday Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein Holidays and observances Saint Mary Magdalene Swaziland - Birthday of former King Sobhuza II Pi Approximation Day Ratcatcher's Day. See:The Pied Piper of Hamelin. See Also: July 21 - July 23 - June 22 - August 22 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.