July 22

Friday 22, 2005:

Microsoft releases the final name for its next-gen operating system, Longhorn. The name will be "Windows Vista".

Tuesday 22, 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.

Monday 22, 2002:

Israel assasinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, Ezzedeen-al-qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians.

Tuesday 22, 1997:

The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.

Wednesday 22, 1992:

Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.

Monday 22, 1991:

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee apartment.

Friday 22, 1977:

Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.

Sunday 22, 1962:

Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.

Monday 22, 1946:

King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.

Saturday 22, 1944:

The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland

Thursday 22, 1943:

Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.

Wednesday 22, 1942:

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

Thursday 22, 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.

Sunday 22, 1934:

Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.

Saturday 22, 1933:

Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.

Saturday 22, 1916:

In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.

Wednesday 22, 1908:

Albert Fisher establishes the Fisher Body Company to manufacture carriage and automobile bodies.

Friday 22, 1864:

Outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.

Wednesday 22, 1812:

British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.

Monday 22, 1805:

inconclusive battle of Cape Finisterre fought between a combined French and Spanish fleets under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.

Friday 22, 1796:

Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.

Monday 22, 1793:

Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico.

Wednesday 22, 1587:

Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.

Saturday 22, 1499:

The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.

Tuesday 22, 1298:

Edward I (Longshanks) of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his scottish schiltrons outside the town.

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