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Today in History ~ July 22
Events1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
1306 - King Phillip the Fair orders expulsion of Jews from France
1456 - Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II
1587 - 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC
1620 - Dutch pilgrims left for America. Their ship -- called the "Speedhaven" -- set sail from Delfshaven, Holland.
1648 - 10 000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre
1793 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean by land. [H]
1796 - Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
1812 - Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca Spain
1864 - Battle of Atlanta -- Confederate troops under Gen. John Hood were defeated by Union forces under Gen. William Sherman.
1916 - San Francisco California a bombing during a Preparedness Day (organized by the city's chamber of commerce and business leaders in support of America's possible entrance into WW1) parade killed ten people and wounded forty [H]
1917 - Alexandr Kerensky becomes Russian PM
1917 - British bomb German lines at Ypres 4 250 000 grenades
1933 - American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours.
1934 - John Dillinger the first person to receive the FBI's appellation of "Public Enemy No. 1" was killed by federal agents as he left Chicago's Biograph movie theater. [H]
1937 - Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
1937 - The Senate rejected President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
1942 - Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300 000) are sent to death at Treblinka extermination Camp
1942 - Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
1943 - American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily.
1946 - Menachen Begin's Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people.
1960 - Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
1963 - Chicago-based Vee Jay Records released "Introducing the Beatles". The album was virtually ignored by U.S. record buyers.
1975 - The House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
1982 - Biggest mass wedding Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2 200 couples in NYC
1983 - Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law
1987 - US begins escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
1988 - 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1990 - Greg LeMond of US wins his 3rd Tour de France
1991 - Cannibal and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is caught confesses to killing 17 males over a thirteen-year period.
1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
1994 - OJ Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder
1994 - A federal judge ordered The Citadel, a state-financed military college in Charleston, S.C., to open its doors to women.
1995 - Susan Smith, the mother who had confessed to drowning her two young sons by allowing her car to roll into a lake with the boys locked inside, was convicted by a jury in Union, S.C., of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1997 - More than 2,000 people gathered in Milan, Italy, for a memorial Mass for slain fashion designer Gianni Versace; the mourners included Princess Diana and singer-songwriter Elton John.
1999 - The ashes of John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife and her sister were buried at sea off the coast of Massachusetts. The three had died in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard six days earlier.
1999 - China outlawed the Falun Gong, or Buddhist Law, religious sect and began detaining thousands of its members.
2001 - President Bush and other world leaders closed out a summit in Genoa, Italy, with a vow to wage a united attack on global poverty and disease. They failed, however, to resolve a sharp dispute over global warming.
Birthdays Today
1822 - Gregor Mendel, monk/geneticist, discoverer of laws of heredity
1844 - Anglican clergyman William Archibald Spooner _ whose slips of the tongue caused words and syllables to be transposed and gave rise to the term "spoonerisms" _ was born in London.
1849 - Emma Lazarus, Jewish poet ("New Colossus"-base of Statue ofLiberty)
1882 - Edward Hopper, US painter (House by the Railroad)
1889 - Alexander Calder (sculptor)
1890 - Rose Kennedy (mother of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy)
1892 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor/Nazi war criminal
1898 - Alexander Calder, sculptor (mobiles, stabiles)
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benet (Pulitzer prize-winning poet: [1937], John Brown's Body [1929], Western Star [1944]; writer: The Devil and Daniel Webster)
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benet US, writer (Devil & Daniel Webster)
1905 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble)
1913 - Licia Albanese, Bari Italy, operatic soprano (NY Met Opera)
1922 - Jim Rivera (baseball)
1923 - Robert Dole (U.S. Senate majority leader, 1996 GOP candidate for president of U.S.)
1924 - Margaret Whiting (singer: Moonlight in Vermont, It Might as Well be Spring, Now is the Hour, Far Away Places, A Tree in the Meadow, w/Jimmy Wakely: Slippin' Around, Wedding Bells Will Soon Be Ringing)
1928 - Orson Bean (Dallas Burroughs) (comedian, actor: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; game show panelist: To Tell the Truth, I've Got a Secret, Keep Talking; author: 25 Ways to Cook a Mouse)
1930 - Marcia Henderson (actress: Naked Hills, Thunder Bay)
1932 - Oscar De La Renta (fashion designer)
1937 - Chuck Jackson (singer: Any Day Now, I Don't Want to Cry)
1939 - Terence Stamp (actor: Superman: The Movie, Far from the Madding Crowd, Alien Nation, Billy Budd, Wall Street, Young Guns, The Real McCoy)
1940 - Alex Trebek (game show host: Jeopardy, Concentration, The $128,000 Question; narrator: Heart of Courage)
1941 - Thomas Wayne (Perkins) (singer: Tragedy)
1944 - Bobby Sherman (singer: Little Woman, Julie, Do Ya Love Me; actor: Shindig, Here Come the Brides, Getting Together; founder of TAC-5, a paramedics group)
1944 - Sparky (Albert) Lyle (baseball: NY Yankees pitcher: Cy Young Award [1977])
1947 - Albert Brooks (Einstein) (actor: Broadcast News, Lost in America, Private Benjamin, Taxi Driver)
1947 - Cliff Johnson (baseball)
1947 - Danny Glover (actor: Lethal Weapon series, Silverado, Escape from Alcatraz, Chiefs, The Color Purple, Angels in the Outfield, Places in the Heart)
1947 - Don Henley (drummer, singer: groups: Shiloh; The Eagles: Hotel California; solo: Dirty Laundry, All She Wants to Do is Dance, The End of the Innocence; songwriter: The Boys of Summer)
1951 - J.V. (James Victor) Cain (football)
1955 - Willem Dafoe (actor: Platoon, Mississippi Burning, Clear and Present Danger, New York Nights)
1956 - Scott Sanderson (baseball)
Famous deaths
1387 - French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57
1497 - Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies at about 52
1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, monk/mathematician (found 1st asteroid), dies at 80
1832 - Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte, [l'Aiglon], king of Rome, dies at 21
1870 - Josef Strauss, composer, dies at 42
1934 - John Dillinger, shot dead outside Biograph Theater in Chicago, at 33
by the FBI; was public enemy number one. [H]
1967 - Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89
1974 - Wayne L Morse, (Sen-D-Oregon), dies at 73
1992 - Wayne McLaren, model (Marlboro Man), dies of lung cancer at 51
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