July 22

EVENTS

1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.

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.

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.

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1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.

1942 – Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.

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.

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.

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.

BRITHS

1890 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist, wife of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.

1940 – Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host

1946 – Danny Glover, American actor

DEATHS

1832 – Napoleon II, French emperor.

1864 – James B. McPherson, American army general

1869 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge

2008 – Estelle Getty, American actress

FEAST DAY

St. Mary Magdalene is considered by the Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches to be a saint, with a feast day of July 22.

 

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