History Events on July 22

World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.

#Axis_powers

Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond's second consecutive Tour de France victory.

#Greg_LeMond

Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl in the Old Zürich War.

#Battle_of_St._Jakob_an_der_Sihl

Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.

#Napoleonic_Wars

Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.

#Battle_of_Anzen

First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.

#First_Crusade

Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.

#Massacre_at_Béziers

Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.

#Alexander_Mackenzie_(explorer)

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.

#Napoleonic_Wars

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.

#Paris-Rouen_(motor_race)

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.

#Wars_of_Scottish_Independence

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.

#New_Deal

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.

#Acts_of_Union_1707

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

#Roanoke_Colony

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

#Gasoline

Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.

#Great_Flood_of_1993

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

#Mariner_program

Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.

#Preparedness_Day_Bombing

The Holocaust in Poland: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.

#The_Holocaust_in_Poland

Crown Colony of Sarawak gains self-governance.

#Crown_Colony_of_Sarawak

American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.

#American_Civil_War

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

#Polish_Committee_of_National_Liberation

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 Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.

#King_David_Hotel_bombing

Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.

#Deng_Xiaoping

Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.

#Battle_of_Dornach

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

#Blue_Water_Bridge

Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.

#Gia_Long

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

#Albany,_New_York

2013 Dingxi earthquakes, a series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.

#2013_Dingxi_earthquakes

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.

#101st_Airborne_Division

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

#Medellín

World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.

#Allied_invasion_of_Sicily

Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.

#Martial_law_in_Poland

2011 Norway attacks: first a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.

#2011_Norway_attacks

William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.

#William_Shakespeare

Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.

#Philippines

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.

#Battle_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_(1797)

Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.

#Wiley_Post

Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.

#Katharine_Lee_Bates

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

#Connecticut_Land_Company

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.

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.

Ottoman wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.