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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010



On this day . . .
260 - St Dionysius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
1587 - 2nd English colony established on Roanoke Island off NC
1686 - City of Albany, NY chartered
1775 - George Washington takes command of the troops
1796 - Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleaveland
1812 - Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain
1854 - J R Hind discovers asteroid #30 Urania
1864 - Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman & suffers terrible losses
1898 - Belgica crew see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter
1905 - Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0
1908 - W Lorenz discovers asteroid #665 Sabine
1912 - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes
1916 - A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10
1917 - Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM
1917 - M Wolf discovers asteroids #879 Ricarda, #880 Herba & #881 Athene
1918 - Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
1923 - Walter Johnson becomes the 1st to strikeout 3,000
1925 - Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
1926 - 105ø F (41ø C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record)
1926 - 108ø F (42ø C), Troy, New York (state record)
1926 - Cin Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning
1930 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1306 Scythia
1930 - H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1666 van Gent, #1752 van Herk &
           #1945 Wesselink
1933 - Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida," NYC-1st negro prima donna in US
1933 - Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight
1935 - C Jackson discovers asteroids #1359 Prieska & #1360 Tarka
1935 - Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia
1936 - Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs
1937 - Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
1939 - 1st black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC)
1942 - Gasoline rationing begins in US during WW II
1943 - Allied forces captured Palermo, Sicily
1944 - Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
1946 - Estelle Bennett, rocker (The Ronettes)
1947 - -8ø F (-13ø C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record)
1950 - King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium
1952 - Polish constitution adopted (National Day)
1955 - 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon
1955 - Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11
1962 - 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
1962 - Chic White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles)
1963 - Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson to retain heavywieght championship
1963 - The Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles"
1964 - Steve Ballesteros wins the Britsh Golf Open
1967 - Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in the 9th inning
1967 - Jimi Hendrix quits as openoing act of the Monkees' tour
1969 - Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit
1969 - USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
1972 - 27.53 cm (10.84") of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)
1972 - Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
1973 - Sue Berning wins her 3rd US Golf Open championship
1975 - House of Reps votes to restore citizenship to Gen Robert E Lee
1981 - Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life
1982 - Academic Text Processing Service established in Seattle
1983 - -128ø F (-89ø C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1983 - Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
1983 - Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law
1984 - Kathy Whitworth wins a record 85th pro golf tournament
1986 - House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion
1987 - Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome
1987 - Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian)
1987 - US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
1988 - 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1990 - Greg Lemond of US wins bicycling's 3rd tour de France
1990 - Nick Faldo of England wins the British Open Golf championship
1991 - Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978


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