July 22 in History

Historical Events on July 22

1686 Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.

1805 Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Cape Finisterre: An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet 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 Salamanca, Spain.

1864 American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.

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.

1943 World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.

1976 Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.

2011 Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.

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Famous Birthdays on July 22

1940 Alex Trebek

1965 Shawn Michaels

1988 Thomas Kraft

1992 Selena Gomez

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Famous Deaths on July 22

1916 James Whitcomb Riley

1950 William Lyon Mackenzie King

1974 Wayne Morse

1995 Harold Larwood

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