This Day in History for 22nd July

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 139

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 - Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland & Holy Roman Empire
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
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
First US President George Washington 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 - Belgica crew see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter
1901 - Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
1905 - Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0
1912 - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes
1916 - A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10
1917 - Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM
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
1933 - Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight
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 - 1st black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC)
1940 - Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks
1940 - Jacqueline Kennedy's parents divorce
1942 - 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks
1942 - Gasoline rationing using coupons begins
1942 - Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp
US General George S Patton 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, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium
1951 - Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed pres of Portugal
1952 - Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1954 - Virgin Islands (US) adopts 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 - Chic 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 peace in Detroit
1969 - USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
1971 - Sudan 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
1973 - 28th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
Confederate General Robert E Lee 1975 - House of Reps votes to restore citizenship to Gen 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)

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 221

1210 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
1478 - Philip I, (the Handsome), 1st Habsburg King of Spain (1504-06)
1510 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
1535 - Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
1559 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
1597 - Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer
1621 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury/minister (1660-73)
1642 - Johann Quirsfeld, composer
1647 - Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint
1649 - Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italy, Pope (1700-21)
1651 - Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer
1711 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
1713 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
1721 - Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer
1722 - Jean-Noel/Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian
1733 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
1755 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839)
1784 - Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (star parallax, Bessel Function)
1807 - Karolina Pawlowa, writer
1820 - Louis Powell Harvey, Governor (Union), died in 1862
1822 - Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1897
1822 - John George Walker, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1830 - Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer
1830 - William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1916
1833 - Benjamin Hanby, composer
1834 - Daniel McCook Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1844 - William Archibald Spooner, London, reverend/inventor (spoonerisms)
1848 - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
1849 - Emma Lazarus, Jewish poet ("New Colossus"-base of Statue of Liberty)
1853 - Victor Roger, composer
1863 - Alec Hearne, cricketer (brother of George & Frank, Kent 1884-1910)
1871 - Akos Buttykai, composer
1872 - David D Salas, Antillian writer (Josefina)
1873 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer
1878 - Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un destin: Martin Luther)
1879 - Gustaf Heintze, composer
1882 - Edward Hopper, US painter (House by the Railroad)
1887 - Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925)
1888 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
1889 - Frederick Preston Search, composer
Kennedy Family Matriarch Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890) 1890 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Boston Massachusetts, mom of JFK, RFK & Ted, (d. 1995)
1892 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s)/war criminal
1892 - John MacBryan, cricketer (one Test Eng v South Africa 1924 DNBat, DNbowl)
1893 - Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1894 - O M Graf, writer
1898 - Alexander Calder, sculptor (mobiles, stabiles)
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
1901 - Charles Weidman, Nebraska, modern dancer/choreographer (Candide)
1902 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer
1905 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble)
1905 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1907 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, authority on etiquette (Complete Book of Etiquette)
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
1909 - Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
1910 - Edith Abbo, daughter of Mien Wenneker/Dutch Prince Henry
1913 - Licia Albanese, Bari Italy, operatic soprano (NY Met Opera)
1913 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
1914 - Cecil Effinger, composer
1915 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. (d. 2000)
1916 - Hipolito M Ocalia, Curacao, landscape painter
1916 - Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
1916 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
1918 - Pim [Albrecht W] Lyre, Dutch lawyer/son of prince Henry
1920 - Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman
1921 - William V Roth Jr, (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971- )
1923 - Robert J Dole, (Sen-R Kansas, 1969-95)/presidential candidate (R-1996)
1923 - Bob Dole, American politician
1923 - Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1923 - Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1924 - Margaret Whiting, Detroit, singer (Kreisler Bandstand, Strauss Family)
1926 - Bryan Forbes, director/producer (Endless Games, King Rat)
1926 - Peter Michael Grayson, showman
1927 - George Hunter, South Africa, light heavyweight boxer (Oly-gold-1948)
1928 - Georg Dreyfus, composer
1928 - Orson Bean, Burlington VT, actor/comedian (To Tell the Truth)
1929 - Vivien Merchant, Manchester England, actress (Under Milk Wood)
1929 - John Barber, British racing driver
1930 - Leoncjusz Ciuciura, composer
1930 - Marcia Henderson, Andover Mass, actress (Kathleen-Aldrich Family)
1931 - Charles Huxtable, General commander (English ground armies)
1931 - Perry Lopez, NYC, actor (Chinatown, Death Wish 4)
1932 - Oscar de la Renta, Dom Rep, designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1973)
1932 - William Wilkinson, businessman/conservationist
1933 - Chuck Cassey, Chicago, choral director (Jimmy Dean Show)
Actress Louise Fletcher (1934) 1934 - Louise Fletcher, Birmingham AL, actress (One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest)
1935 - Tom Cartwright, England cricket medium pacer (5 Tests 1964-65)
1936 - Harold "Dusty" Rhodes, England cricket pace bowler (1959)
1936 - Krasimir Kyurkchiiski, composer
1936 - Tom Robbins, American author
1937 - John Price, England cricket fast-medium bowler (1964-72)
1937 - V B Ranjane, Indian cricket fast bowler (early 1960's)
1937 - Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1939 - Terence Stamp, England, actor (Collector, Alien Nations)
1939 - Gila Almagor, Israeli actress
1940 - Alex Trebek, Sudbury Ontario, TV game host (High Rollers, Jeopardy)
1940 - Stan Ross, NYC, actor
1940 - Yuriy Klimov, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
1940 - Judith Walzer Leavitt, American college professor
1941 - George Clinton, Kannapolis NC, rocker (Parliament-Funkadelic)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 8 of 8

1515 - Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria
1515 - Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia & succession to Hungarian throne
1929 - American Playwright and 1936 winner Nobel prize for literature Eugene O'Neill (40) marries 3rd wife actress Carlotta Monterey (40)
1982 - Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in NYC
1995 - "True Lies" actor Tom Arnold (36) weds Julie Champnella (25) in Dearborn, Michigan
2006 - Spanish singer David Bustamante (24) weds Spanish TV star Paula Echevarria at Basilica de Santa Maria la Real de Covadonga in the Asturias
2006 - British TV presenter Ant McPartlin (30) weds former member of "Deuce" Lisa Armstrong (29) at St. Nicholas Church in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England
2007 - Muhammad Ali's daughter Laila Ali (30) weds former NFL player Curtis Conway (36) in Marina del Rey, California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

1940 - Jacqueline Kennedy's parents divorce
2010 - "The Princess Bride" actress Robin Wright (44) divorces actor-director Sean Penn (49) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 116

1035 - Robert II/I, Duke of Normandy, dies
1362 - Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
1387 - French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57
1461 - Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), dies at 58
1477 - Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies in battle at 39
1497 - Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies at about 52
1499 - Neithart Fox, [Jonker Fox], German passage leader, slain in battle
1525 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
1619 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
1633 - Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b.1616)
1635 - Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer, dies at 45
1645 - Gaspar de Guzman, premier of Spain (1621-43), dies at 58
1676 - Clement X, [Emilio Altieri], Italian Pope (1670-76), dies at 86
1726 - Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
1734 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England
1786 - Vaclav Kalous, composer, dies at 71
1789 - Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)
1794 - Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer, dies at 59
1802 - Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, a founder of histology, dies from falling down stairs at 30
Anatomist Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1802) 1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, monk/mathematician (found 1st asteroid), dies at 80
1832 - Napoleon II of France (b. 1811), son of Napoleon I dies of tuberculosis
1840 - Josef Jawurek, composer, dies at 83
1848 - Karl Guhr, composer, dies at 60
1852 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
1861 - Barnard Elliot Bee, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 37
1863 - Carl Schuberth, composer, dies at 52
1864 - James Birdseye Mcpherson, US Union gen-major, dies in battle at 35
1864 - William Henry Talbot Walker, Confederate gen-mjr, dies in battle at 47
1868 - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer, dies at 51
1869 - John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (b. 1806)
1870 - Josef Strauss, composer, dies at 42
1880 - Anna Caroline Oury, composer, dies at 72
1902 - Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)
1903 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
1904 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
1908 - William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
1909 - D v Liliencron, writer, dies at 65
1915 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
1918 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898)
1920 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
1922 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
1929 - Bror Beckman, composer, dies at 63
1929 - Edouard baron Empain, Belgian builder (Heliopolis), dies at 76
1932 - Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71
1932 - Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71
1932 - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
1932 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
1934 - John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago, at 33
1937 - Ted McDonald, cricketer (43 wickets for Australia), dies in car crash
1950 - William LM King, premier of Canada (1921-30, 35-48), dies at 75
1952 - Antonio Maria Valencia, composer, dies at 49
1952 - August Balthazar, Belgian politician, dies at 58
1953 - Cy Kendall, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown), dies at 55
1955 - Joseph Foley, actor (Mr Peepers), dies at 45
1958 - Karl Nunes, cricketer (1st WI Test captain 1928), dies
1958 - Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author, dies at 62
1958 - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
1967 - Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89
1968 - Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author: Don Camillo/Peppone, dies at 60
1969 - Hammy Love, cricketer (NSW wicket-keeper, played for Australia), dies
1970 - George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (b. 1912)
1972 - Hugo Kauder, composer, dies at 84
1972 - Pavel Borkovek, composer, dies at 78
1974 - Edna Lewis Thomas, US actress (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 88
1974 - Lili Darvas, Hungarian actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron), dies at 68
1974 - Wayne L Morse, (Sen-D-Oregon), dies at 73
1979 - Hope Summers, actress (Clara-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 78
1979 - Soschtschenko, writer, dies at 83
1979 - Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 69
1979 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1980 - Fred Kaps [Abram PA Bongers], magician (world champ 1955), dies at 54
1987 - A G Kripal Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India), dies
1988 - Duane Jones, dies of cardiopulmonary arrest at 51
1988 - Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87
1989 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
1990 - George Wood, dies of diabetes complications at 56
1990 - Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab), dies of cancer at 70
1992 - David Wojuarowicz, artist (U2 album cover), dies of AIDs at 37
1992 - Souleiman Franjieh, president Lebanon (1970-76), dies
1992 - Wayne McLaren, model (Marlboro Man), dies of lung cancer at 51
1995 - Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter, dies at 85
1995 - Harold Larwood, cricket (98 wkts bowling for Engl 1926-34), dies at 91
1995 - Percy Humphrey, musician, dies at 90
1996 - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65
1996 - Leon Shenandoah, native American leader, dies at 81
1996 - Peter Ludwig, businessman/art collector, dies at 71
1996 - Richard Day, engineer/development expert, dies at 48
1996 - Robert Collins, keyboard player, dies at 33
1996 - Tamara Danz, singer, dies at 43
1998 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
1999 - Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
2000 - Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
2000 - Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)
2000 - Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)
2001 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
2003 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
2003 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
2003 - Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2004 - Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)