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, 28,693,440 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 ‘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
- 1587 –Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
- 1796 –Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio “Cleveland” after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1934 –Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
- 1942 –Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
- 1951 –Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, “Gypsy”) are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
- 1991 –Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
- 2002 –Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas’s military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
- 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.
Who were born on July 22?
- 1887 –Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
- 1893 –Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
- 1916 –Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
- 1944 –Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
- 1946 –Danny Glover, American actor
- 1946 –Mireille Mathieu, French singer
- 1948 –S. E. Hinton, American novelist
- 1961 –Keith Sweat, American singer
- 1982 –Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1992 –Selena Gomez, American actress and pop singer
Who died on July 22?
- 1802 –Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist (b. 1771)
- 1864 –James B. McPherson, American army general, in the Battle of Atlanta (b. 1828)
- 1932 –Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
- 1934 –John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903)
- 1968 –Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908)
- 1979 –J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
- 2003 –Uday Hussein, Iraqi politician, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
- 2004 –George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
- 2004 –Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
- 2005 –Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
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