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, 486,984 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 ‘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

• 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.
• 1864 –
  American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
• 1916 –
  In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
• 1933 –
  Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15596 mi in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
• 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.
• 1976 –
  Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan’s conquest of the country in the Second World War
• 1992 –
  Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
• 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)
• 1913 –
  Licia Albanese, American opera singer
• 1948 –
  S. E. Hinton, American novelist
• 1955 –
  Willem Dafoe, American actor
• 1963 –
  Emilio Butragueño, Spanish footballer
• 1964 –
  David Spade, American actor and comedian
• 1969 –
  Despina Vandi, Greek singer
• 1972 –
  Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
• 1976 –
  Kokia, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1980 –
  Kate Ryan, Belgian singer

Who died on July 22?

• 1619 –
  Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
• 1734 –
  Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1669)
• 1824 –
  Thomas McNamara Russell, Royal Navy admiral
• 1990 –
  Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)
• 2000 –
  Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)
• 2000 –
  Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)
• 2000 –
  Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
• 2005 –
  Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician (b. 1978)
• 2008 –
  Estelle Getty, American comedic actress (b. 1923)
• 2011 –
  Tore Eikeland, Norwegian politician (b. 1990)