22 Julie

The 22nt o Julie is the 203rd day o the year (204t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 162 days ti come.

 Events 
 1802 - Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi an unifies Vietnam.
 1864 - American Ceevil War: Battle o Atlanta.
 1943 - Warld War II: Allied forces capture Palermo, Sicily.
 1946 - A Zionist underground organisation  bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killin 91 fowk.
 1977 - Deng Xiaoping is restored tae pouer in the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae.
 1983 - Poland revokes mairtial law.
 1994 - Yahya Jammeh comes tae pouer in the Gambie through a coup.
 2005 - Lunnon's Metropolitan Polis shuits dead innocent Brazilian electreecian Jean Charles de Menezes in the hunt for terror suspects.
 2009 - The langest-lastin total solar eclipse o the 21st century is seen ower pairts o Indie, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, Japan an the wastren Paceefic Ocean.
 2011 - 2011 Norawa attacks: Anders Behring Breivik detonates a car bomb in Oslo an carries oot a shuitin at a poleetical youth camp on the island o Utoya, killin a total o 77 fowk.
 2012 - Bradley Wiggins becomes the first Inglis, an Breetish, cyclist tae win the Tour de France.
 2013 - A series o yirdquauks in Dingxi, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, kills 89 fowk.
 2016 - 2016 Munich attacks: 9 fowk are shot dead in an aroond the Olympia shoppin centre in Munich, Bavarie, Germany.
 2019 - Jo Swinson becomes leader o the Leeberal Democrats.
 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit COVID-19 cases warldwide reaches 15 million.

 Births 
 1210 - Joan o Ingland, Queen o Scots (d. 1238)
 1478 - Philip I o Castile (d. 1506)
 1510 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke o Florence (d. 1537)
 1519 - Pape Innocent IX (d. 1591)
 1596 - Michael I o Roushie (d. 1645)
 1818 - Thomas Stevenson, Scots lichthoose designer an ingineer (d. 1887)
 1831 - Emperor Komei o Japan (d. 1867)
 1845 - James Campbell Noble, Scots penter (d. 1913)
 1882 - Edward Hopper, American penter (d. 1967)
 1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German pheesicist (d. 1975)
 1899 - Sobhuza II, Keeng o Swaziland (d. 1982)
 1923 - Bob Dole, American politeecian
 1926 - J. I. Packer, Breetish-Canadian theologian (d. 2020)
 1928 - Jimmy Hill, Inglis fitbaw personality (d. 2015)
 1932 - Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (d. 2014)
 1934 - Louise Fletcher, American actress
 1943 - Kay Bailey Hutchison, American politeecian
 1946 - Danny Glover, American actor, film director an activist
 1955 - Willem Dafoe, American actor
 1964 - John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, producer an screenwriter
 1977 - Alex Cole-Hamilton, Scots politeecian
 1978 - Dennis Rommedahl, Dens fitbawer
 1980 - Dirk Kuyt, Dutch fitbawer
 1992 - Selena Gomez, American actress an sangster
 2013 - Prince George o Cambridge

 Daiths 
 1461 - Charles VII o Fraunce (b. 1403)
 1676 - Pape Clement X (b. 1590)
 1746 - Maria Teresa o Spain (b. 1726)
 1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian mathemateecian an astronomer (b. 1746)
 1832 - Napoleon II o Fraunce (b. 1811)
 1893 - John Rae, Orcadian physeecian an splorer (b. 1813)
 1908 - Randal Cremer, Inglis politeecian (b. 1828)
 1915 - Sandford Fleming, Scots-Canadian ingineer an inventor (b. 1827)
 1950 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime meenister o Canadae (b. 1874)
 1967 - Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
 2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electreecian (b. 1978)
 2008 - Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
 2013 - Dennis Farina, American actor (b. 1944)
 2013 - Lawrie Reilly, Scots fitbawer (b. 1928)
 2018 - Chiyo Miyako, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1901)

 Halidays 
 Pi Approximation Day

Category:Days o the year