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 203^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 162 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 9, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,219,040 minutes 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 ‘dihectatrigon’ 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 210 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 4,596 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 22 Historical Events

• 1298 –
  Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
• 1499 –
  Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
• 1706 –
  The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries’ Parliaments, lead to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1797 –
  Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
• 1942 –
  Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
• 1983 –
  Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
• 1991 –
  Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
• 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.
• 1997 –
  The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
• 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.

Who were born on July 22?

• 1478 –
  King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
• 1711 –
  Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
• 1913 –
  Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
• 1934 –
  Louise Fletcher, American actress
• 1944 –
  Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes) (d. 2009)
• 1953 –
  Paul Quarrington, Canadian playwright and educator (d. 2010)
• 1954 –
  Lonette McKee, American actress
• 1958 –
  David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1984)
• 1966 –
  Tim Brown, American football player
• 1997 –
  Field Cate, American actor

Who died on July 22?

• 1387 –
  Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
• 1540 –
  John Zápolya, Voivode of Transylvania and King of Hungary (b. 1487)
• 1645 –
  Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
• 1726 –
  Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (birth year unknown)
• 1826 –
  Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)
• 1832 –
  Napoleon II, Emperor of the French and King of Rome (b. 1811)
• 1934 –
  John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903)
• 1989 –
  Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
• 1998 –
  Fritz Buchloh, German football player and coach (b. 1909)
• 1999 –
  Gar Samuelson, American drummer (Megadeth) (b. 1958)