TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: July 22
1099 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem
1298 King Edward I defeats the Scots under William Wallace at Falkirk.
1376 The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date
1515 First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire – rise of the Habsburgs influence
1789 Thomas Jefferson becomes the first head of the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs.
1796 Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
1814 Five Indian tribes in Ohio make peace with the United States and declare war on Britain.
1881 The first volume of The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, is published.
1918 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah’s Wasatch National Park
1933 American aviator Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the Earth
1934 American gangster John Dillinger is shot dead by FBI officers outside a Chicago cinema.
1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “court packing” scheme was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
1938 The Third Reich issues special identity cards for Jewish Germans.
1942 Gasoline rationing begins in US during WW II
1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp
1955 U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon chaired a cabinet meeting in Washington, DC. It was the first time that a Vice-President had carried out the task.
1975 Congress restored Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s U.S. citizenship.
1986 House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion
1988 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978
2000 Astronomers at the University of Arizona announced that they had found a 17th moon orbiting Jupiter.
2003 Raid in Mosul. In northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s sons Odai and Qusai died after a gunfight with U.S. forces.
2004 The September 11 commission’s final report was released. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited “deep institutional failings within our government.” The report was released to White House officials the day before.
2011 Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first a bomb blast targeting government buildings in central Oslo, second a massacre at a youth camp on island of Utøya
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
