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Events on the 22nd of July in history

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22 Jul 0259 Dionysius elected as Bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II
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22 Jul 0260 St Dionysius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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22 Jul 0838 Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
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22 Jul 1099 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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22 Jul 1209 Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
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22 Jul 1298 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
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22 Jul 1298 English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
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22 Jul 1306 King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France
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22 Jul 1456 Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire
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22 Jul 1484 Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
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22 Jul 1489 "Tractate Niddah" a talmudic edition, 1st printed
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22 Jul 1489 Treaty of Frankfurt
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22 Jul 1499 Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
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22 Jul 1515 Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria
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22 Jul 1515 Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire
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22 Jul 1515 Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia and succession to Hungarian throne
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22 Jul 1535 Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Admiral Barbarossa
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22 Jul 1582 Willem van Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft
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22 Jul 1587 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off North Carolina
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22 Jul 1587 Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
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22 Jul 1587 2nd English colony established on Roanoke Island off NC
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22 Jul 1632 Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for King Philip IV
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22 Jul 1648 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre
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22 Jul 1686 City of Albany, New York chartered
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22 Jul 1686 Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
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22 Jul 1691 Battle at Aghrim: English / Dutch army beats France
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22 Jul 1706 The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries' Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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22 Jul 1729 Diamonds found in Minas Geras Brazil
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22 Jul 1731 Spain signs Treaty of Vienna
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22 Jul 1739 Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia and threaten Belgrade
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22 Jul 1775 George Washington takes command of the troops
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22 Jul 1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
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22 Jul 1796 Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleveland
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22 Jul 1796 Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
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22 Jul 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.
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22 Jul 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.
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22 Jul 1812 Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
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22 Jul 1812 Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain
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22 Jul 1854 J R Hind discovers asteroid #30 Urania
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22 Jul 1859 V E Walker takes 10-74 in an innings for England vs. Surrey
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22 Jul 1864 Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8449 conf, 3641 US die
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22 Jul 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.
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22 Jul 1864 Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman & suffers terrible losses
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22 Jul 1865 V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex vs. Lancs
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22 Jul 1893 Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful, " in Colorado
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22 Jul 1894 The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
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22 Jul 1898 Belgica crew see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter
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22 Jul 1901 Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
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22 Jul 1905 Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0
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22 Jul 1908 W Lorenz discovers asteroid #665 Sabine
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22 Jul 1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes
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22 Jul 1916 In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing ten and injuring 40.
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22 Jul 1916 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10
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22 Jul 1917 Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian Prime Minister
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22 Jul 1917 British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades
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22 Jul 1917 M Wolf discovers asteroids #879 Ricarda, #880 Herba & #881 Athene
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22 Jul 1918 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
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22 Jul 1921 25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia Country Club - Maryland
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22 Jul 1922 Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St. Louis teams are on top
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22 Jul 1923 Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)
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22 Jul 1923 Walter Johnson becomes the 1st to strikeout 3,000
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22 Jul 1925 Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
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22 Jul 1926 105
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22 Jul 1926 108
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22 Jul 1926 Cin Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning
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22 Jul 1930 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1306 Scythia
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22 Jul 1930 H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1666 van Gent, #1752 van Herk &
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22 Jul 1933 1st solo flight round the world 7d 19hrs (Wiley Post)
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22 Jul 1933 Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida, " NYC-1st negro prima donna in US
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22 Jul 1933 Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
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22 Jul 1933 Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight
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22 Jul 1934 Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
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22 Jul 1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1359 Prieska & #1360 Tarka
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22 Jul 1935 Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia
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22 Jul 1936 Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs
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22 Jul 1937 Irish Premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
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22 Jul 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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22 Jul 1937 Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
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22 Jul 1939 1st black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC)
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22 Jul 1940 Dutch Prime Minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks
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22 Jul 1942 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks
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22 Jul 1942 Gasoline rationing using coupons begins
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22 Jul 1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp
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22 Jul 1942 The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
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22 Jul 1942 Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
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22 Jul 1942 Gasoline rationing begins in US during WW II
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22 Jul 1943 US forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily
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22 Jul 1943 World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
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22 Jul 1943 Allied forces captured Palermo, Sicily
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22 Jul 1944 The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
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22 Jul 1944 Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
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22 Jul 1946 King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
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22 Jul 1946 Estelle Bennett, rocker (The Ronettes)
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22 Jul 1947 -8
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22 Jul 1950 Frank Worrell completes 261 vs. England at Trent Bridge
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22 Jul 1950 King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium
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22 Jul 1951 Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal
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22 Jul 1951 Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
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22 Jul 1952 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
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22 Jul 1952 Polish constitution adopted (National Day)
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22 Jul 1954 Virgin Islands (US) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act)
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22 Jul 1954 WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
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22 Jul 1955 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon
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22 Jul 1955 Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11
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22 Jul 1959 Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen
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22 Jul 1960 Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
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22 Jul 1961 WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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22 Jul 1962 44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink Golf Club - Pennsylvania
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22 Jul 1962 Chicago White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles)
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22 Jul 1962 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament
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22 Jul 1962 Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
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22 Jul 1962 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
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22 Jul 1963 Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles"
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22 Jul 1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Jul 1963 Sarawak achieve independence.
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22 Jul 1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson to retain heavywieght championship
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22 Jul 1963 The Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles"
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22 Jul 1964 Steve Ballesteros wins the Britsh Golf Open
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22 Jul 1965 Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Conservative party
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22 Jul 1967 1st major appearance by Vanilla Fudge (Village Theater NYC)
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22 Jul 1967 Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in the 9th inning
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22 Jul 1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as openoing act of the Monkees' tour
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22 Jul 1969 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit
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22 Jul 1969 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
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22 Jul 1971 Sudan military counter coup under Premier Numeiry
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22 Jul 1972 10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)
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22 Jul 1972 Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
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22 Jul 1973 Sue Berning wins her 3rd US Golf Open championship
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22 Jul 1975 House of Reps votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E Lee
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22 Jul 1976 "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 106 performances
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22 Jul 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.
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22 Jul 1977 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
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22 Jul 1979 Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
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22 Jul 1981 Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life
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22 Jul 1982 Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City
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22 Jul 1982 Academic Text Processing Service established in Seattle
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22 Jul 1983 Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games
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22 Jul 1983 Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
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22 Jul 1983 -128
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22 Jul 1983 Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
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22 Jul 1983 Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law
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22 Jul 1984 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St. Andrews
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22 Jul 1984 22nd Tennis Federation Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1)
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22 Jul 1984 Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win)
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22 Jul 1984 Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
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22 Jul 1984 Kathy Whitworth wins a record 85th pro golf tournament
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22 Jul 1986 House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion
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22 Jul 1987 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome
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22 Jul 1987 Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian)
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22 Jul 1987 US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
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22 Jul 1988 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
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22 Jul 1990 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St. Andrews Scotland
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22 Jul 1990 90th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson
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22 Jul 1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
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22 Jul 1990 Greg Lemond of US wins bicycling's 3rd tour de France
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22 Jul 1990 Nick Faldo of England wins the British Open Golf championship
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22 Jul 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
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22 Jul 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978
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22 Jul 1992 Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison
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22 Jul 1992 Soyuz TM-15 launches
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22 Jul 1992 Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
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22 Jul 1993 New York Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR
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22 Jul 1993 Soyuz TM-17 lands
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22 Jul 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.
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22 Jul 1994 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)
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22 Jul 1994 Doc Gooden admitted to Betty Ford Center
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22 Jul 1994 Mariners play Red Sox as home team at Fenway, as Kingdome is repaired
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22 Jul 1994 Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees
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22 Jul 1994 OJ Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder
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22 Jul 1994 William Sigei runs world record 10k (26:52.53)
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22 Jul 1995 Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), lands
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22 Jul 1995 Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in South Carolina
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22 Jul 1997 Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris
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22 Jul 1997 The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
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22 Jul 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.
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22 Jul 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.
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22 Jul 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.
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