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Historical Events on July 22

  • Albany, New York

    1686

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

  • Napoleonic Wars

    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.

  • Napoleonic Wars

    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.

  • American Civil War

    1864

    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.

  • New Deal

    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.

  • The Holocaust

    1942

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

  • Axis powers

    1943

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

  • Philippines

    1976

    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.

  • 2011 Norway attacks

    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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