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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: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.
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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