07-22-2005, 05:08 AM
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July 22nd
1812 ~ British forces under the command of Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington) defeated the French near Salamanca, Spain.
1822 ~ Birthday of Br. Gregor Mendel, Austrian Geneticist.
1887 ~ Birthday of Gustav Hertz, German Physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1898 ~ Birthday of Alexander Calder, American Artist.
1916 ~ In San Francisco, a bomb exploded on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade, killing ten.
1937 ~ The U.S. Senate voted down President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
1946 ~ The Irgun bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British administration, killing ninety.
1967 ~ Death of Carl Sandburg, Poet.
1992 ~ Pablo Escobar, fearing extradition to the U.S., escaped from his luxury prison.
1998 ~ Death of Alan Shepard, Astronaut.
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