July 22

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 22. From 1900 until now. July 22 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Selena Gomez (1992), Selena Gomez (1992) and Prince George of Cambridge (2013). Several movies were released around July 22 over the years, such as The Message in 1976 directed by Moustapha Akkad and Castle in the Sky in 1986 directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
But much more happened on July 22 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Swaziland - Birthday of former King Sobhuza II
Pi Approximation Day
St. Vandrille/Wandre Gisilus
St. Mineve
St. Joseph of Palestine (Count Joseph)
St. Dabius/Davius
Catholic - the feasts of at least 7 saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Ratcatcher's Day. See:The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
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Events

2019 Second Libyan Civil War, Libya–Tunisia relations: Tunisia's Ministry of Defence says that a pilot is arrested after a damaged Libyan warplane, reported to be a L-39 Albatros, makes an emergency landing on a road near the southern town of Beni Khadash. (Reuters)
2018 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): An ISIL suicide bomber kills 14 people and wounds over 60 others at a police checkpoint near Hamid Karzai International Airport. The attack coincides with Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum returning to Afghanistan after more than a year in exile in Turkey. Dostum and his entourage are unwounded. (The Wall Street Journal)
2017 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: 2017 Temple Mount crisis: A United Nations Security Council session is to be held to address the escalating violence in Jerusalem. (Deutsche Welle)
2016 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, 2016 Turkish purges: Thousands gather in Istanbul's Taksim Square in a show of support for the new powers that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has received in order to crackdown on dissent following the attempted coup. (The Telegraph)
2015 A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people in northern Afghanistan. (CNN)
2014 Operation Protective Edge:: For the second time, an inspection by United Nations officials reveals rockets being stored in a UNWRA run school in Gaza. Rockets discovered in a school a week ago were returned to Hamas by UNWRA workers. (Times of Israel)
2013 Six people – including army officers and policemen – are killed and another eleven wounded in a series of militant attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. (Reuters)
2012 Syrian uprising (2011–present):
2011 Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 people in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet government center in Oslo and a shooting at a political youth camp on the island of Utøya.
2010 15,000 villagers are to be displaced in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of British mining company Randgold Resources's search for gold. (BBC)
2009 The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurs over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
2008 Estelle Getty, actor (Sophia - The Golden Girls, Golden Palace, Nurses, Blossom, and Empty Nest, films Tootsie, Mask, Copacabana, Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot, Stuart Little, Emmy (1988) and Golden Globe (1986) Awards) dies at age 84 in California (born 1923).
2007 Voters in Cameroon go to the polls for parliamentary elections. Opposition leaders denounce the election as fraudulent. (BBC)
2006 A group of Colombian farmers has won a multimillion pound settlement from BP after the British oil and gas company was accused of benefiting from a regime of terror carried out by Colombian government paramilitaries to protect a 450-mile pipeline. (''Independent'')
2005 Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
2004 Production of the 2004 model Corvette ends, also ending production of the C5 model Corvette. Nearly 250,000 were built since the 1997 model.
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.
2002 An earthquake (magnitude 4.7) hits parts of Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
2000 ''News of the World'' urges its readers to sign a petition for Sarah's Law, new legislation in response to the murder of Sarah Payne, which would give parents the right to know whether a convicted paedophile was living in their area.
1999 The first version of MSN Messenger is released by Microsoft.
1997 Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris
1995 Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), lands
1994 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)
1993 New York Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR
1992 Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison
1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978
1990 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St. Andrews Scotland
1988 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research.
1987 US begins escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf.
1986 House of Representatives impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion.
1984 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St. Andrews
1983 Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games
1982 Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City
1981 Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome court to life in prison.
1979 Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1977 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1976 Let My People Come opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 106 performances
1975 US House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E Lee.
1972 10.84 (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)
1971 Sudan military counter coup under Premier Numeiry
1969 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit
1967 1st major appearance by Vanilla Fudge (Village Theater NYC)
1965 Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Conservative party
1964 Steve Ballesteros wins the Britsh Golf Open.
1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1962 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
1961 WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
1959 Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen
1955 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon
1954 Virgin Islands (US) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act)
1952 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1951 Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal
1950 Frank Worrell completes 261 vs. England at Trent Bridge
1948 The Dominion of Newfoundland votes to join Canada after a referendum.
1946 Estelle Bennett in New York City, New York, USA; rocker (The Ronettes).
1944 The International Monetary Fund is created at the conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
1943 US forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily
1942 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks
1940 Dutch Prime Minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks
1939 1st black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC)
1938 Britain rejected a proposal from its ambassador in Berlin, Nevile Henderson, for a four power summit on Czechoslovakia consisting of Britain, France, Germany and the U.S.S.R. London would under no circumstances accept the U.S.S.R. as a diplomatic partner.
1937 Irish Premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
1936 Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs
1935 Lester Walton appointed Minister to Liberia
1934 Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, ''Public Enemy No. 1'' John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1933 1st solo flight round the world 7d 19hrs (Wiley Post)
1926 108 degrees F (42 degrees C), Troy, New York (state record).
1925 Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
1923 Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000 in Major League Baseball.
1922 Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St. Louis teams are on top
1921 25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia Country Club - Maryland
1920 Polish–Soviet War: Poland sues for peace with Bolshevist Russia (refused).
1917 British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades
1916 In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes
1910 A wireless telegraph sent from the results in the identification, arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Hawley Crippen.
1905 Taft-Katsura Agreement.
1901 Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
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