Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 22
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Pi Approximation Day | no RS for 22/7 observance; more apt for 3/14? |
| 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon was elected the first Protector of the Holy Sepulchre in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. | needs more footnotes |
| 1456 – Forces under John Hunyadi lifted the Siege of Belgrade and defeated an Ottoman invasion into the Kingdom of Hungary. | unreferenced section |
| 1812 – Peninsular War: An Anglo-Portuguese force led by Arthur Wellesley inflicted a severe defeat on Marshal Auguste de Marmont and his French troops near Salamanca, Spain. | needs more footnotes |
| 1933 – Wiley Post became the first pilot to fly solo around the world, landing after a seven-day, nineteen-hour flight at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York City. | refimprove section |
| 1934 – Bank robber John Dillinger, whose exploits were sensationalized across the United States, was shot dead by police in an ambush outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. | multiple issues |
| 1946 – A bomb destroyed the headquarters of the British Mandate of Palestine at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing about 90 people and injuring 45 others. | missing page numbers |
| 1977 – After having been removed from power by the Gang of Four the year before, Deng Xiaoping returned to leadership positions within the Chinese Communist Party. | refimprove section |
| 1992 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxurious private prison and spent the next 17 months on the run. | refimprove |
| 1993 – During the Great Flood of 1993, levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois, US, ruptured, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. | more citations needed |
| 2002 – Following a trial that captivated Brazil, a court in São Paulo sentenced Suzane von Richthofen to 39½ years in prison for the murders of her parents. | multiple issues |
| 2003 – Coalition forces attacked a compound in Mosul, killing two of Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, the "aces of hearts and clubs" on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis. | Uday: too many quotes, Qusay: refimprove |
| 2005 – London metropolitan police killed Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian immigrant, after misidentifying him as being involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts on the city. | refimprove section |
| 2011 – Two sequential terrorist attacks in Oslo and Utøya claimed the lives of 77 people in the deadliest attack in Norway since World War II. | Overly detailed section |
| Josefa de Óbidos |d|1684| | Too much uncited |
| Sobhuza II |b|1899| | Too much uncited |
| Sándor Kocsis|d|1979| | Too much uncited |
| Harold Larwood |d|1995| | Unencyclopedic tone |
| Dennis Farina|d|2013| | Too much uncited |
Eligible
- 838 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeated Byzantine troops led by Emperor Theophilos at the Battle of Anzen, near present-day Dazman, Turkey.
- 1298 – First War of Scottish Independence: English forces led by Edward I defeated William Wallace's Scottish troops at the Battle of Falkirk.
- 1802 – Gia Long conquered Hanoi and unified modern-day Vietnam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
- 1817 – Windham William Sadler made the first successful aerial crossing of the Irish Sea, which he accomplished by balloon.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces unsuccessfully attacked Union troops at the Battle of Atlanta.
- 1894 – Jules-Albert de Dion finished first in the world's first motor race, but did not win as his steam-powered car was against the rules.
- 1944 – World War II: In opposition to the government-in-exile based in London, the Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation was proclaimed to govern territory recaptured from Germany.
- 1954 – A limited state of martial law was declared in Russell County, Alabama, due to organized crime.
- 1975 – Stanley Forman (pictured) took the Pulitzer Prize–winning photo Fire Escape Collapse, which spurred action to improve the safety of fire escapes across the United States.
- 1991 – American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after police discovered human remains in his apartment.
- 1997 – Written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece, the best-selling manga series in history, debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump.
- 2002 – The Israel Defense Forces bombed the home of Salah Shehade, the leader of the military arm of Hamas, killing him, his family and neighboring civilians.
- Born/died: | Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton|b|1552| Anthony Browne |b|1552| Thomas Macnamara Russell|d|1824| Emma Lazarus |b|1849| Augusta Fox Bronner |b|1881| Edward Hopper |b|1882| James Whale|b|1889| James Whitcomb Riley |d|1916| Indra Lal Roy|d|1918| Bob Dole |b|1923| Louise Fletcher|b|1934| Willem Dafoe|b|1955| Albertus Soegijapranata|d|1963| Alex Cole-Hamilton |b|1977| George Armitage Miller |d|2012| Prince George of Wales |b|2013| Johann Breyer|d|2014|
July 22: Feast day of Saint Mary Magdalene (Christianity)
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First flag of Sarawak
- 1209 – A crusader army captured Béziers, France, and massacred the city's inhabitants in the first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
- 1691 – Williamite forces defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Aughrim, the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland.
- 1951 – Soviet space dogs: Dezik and Tsygan were launched into a sub-orbital spaceflight from Kapustin Yar and became the first dogs to fly in space and the first to safely return.
- 1963 – The United Kingdom granted self-government to Sarawak (first flag pictured), the day would be celebrated as Sarawak Day.
- 1976 – Japan completed its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
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