What are the important events that happened on July 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 22: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 22 is the 204th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 162 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 9, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 478,224 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetragon’ day.
Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 191 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,231 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 22 Historical Events
- 838 –Battle of Anzen: the Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
- 1099 –First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1686 –Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
- 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 – 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.
- 1894 –The first ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by Comte Jules-Albert de Dion.
- 1992 –Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
- 1993 –Great Flood of 1993: levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on July 22?
- 1944 –Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
- 1949 –Lasse Virén, Finnish long distance runner
- 1951 –Patriarch Daniel of Romania, Head of the Romanian Orthodox Church
- 1954 –Al Di Meola, American guitarist
- 1954 –Lonette McKee, American actress
- 1957 –Dave Stieb, American baseball player
- 1966 –Tim Brown, American football player
- 1968 –Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
- 1973 –Mike Sweeney, American baseball player
- 1984 –Stewart Downing, English footballer
Who died on July 22?
- 1832 –Napoleon II, Emperor of the French and King of Rome (b. 1811)
- 1918 –Indra Lal Roy, Indian flying ace (b. 1898)
- 1920 –William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
- 1922 –Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
- 1932 –Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
- 1968 –Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908)
- 1970 –George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (b. 1912)
- 1995 –Harold Larwood, English cricketer (b. 1904)
- 1998 –Fritz Buchloh, German football player and coach (b. 1909)
- 2005 –Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
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