Historical Events and Current Affairs on July 22

1099 : First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon elected 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 defeats 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 defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas 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 of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1686 : Albany, New York 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 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 : Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition - Battle of Cape Finisterre - Inconclusive naval action 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 what else Spain! Salamanca, 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.
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 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 : Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
1942 : The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1943 : 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.
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.
1983 : Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1992 : Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1997 : The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
1999 : The first version of MSN Messenger was released by Microsoft.
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

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