What are the important events that happened on July 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 22: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 22 is the 203rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 162 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 9, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,753,142,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatrigon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 210 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,596 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 22 Historical Events
- 1499 –Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
- 1686 –Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
- 1793 –Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
- 1916 –In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
- 1933 –Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15596 mi in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
- 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.
- 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
- 1977 –Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
- 2002 –Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas’s military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
- 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.
Who were born on July 22?
- 1535 –Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
- 1849 –Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
- 1941 –Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
- 1942 –Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer
- 1964 –Rafael Addison, American basketball player
- 1971 –Kristine Lilly, American footballer
- 1974 –Amean J, Pakistani photographer
- 1978 –Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer
- 1981 –Ala Ghawas, Bahraini singer and songwriter
- 1988 –Jeremy Schilling, Jewish-American radio personality
Who died on July 22?
- 1525 –Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (b. c. 1426)
- 1540 –John Zápolya, Voivode of Transylvania and King of Hungary (b. 1487)
- 1645 –Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
- 1903 –Cassius Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
- 1904 –Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
- 1906 –William Snodgrass, Canadian Presbyterian minister and the sixth Principal of Queen’s College, now Queen’s University (b. 1827)
- 1932 –Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
- 1988 –Duane Jones, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2007 –Mike Coolbaugh, American baseball player and coach (b. 1972)
- 2008 –Greg Burson, American voice actor (b. 1949)
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