Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 22

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• Pi
  Pi
• John Hunyadi
  John Hunyadi
• Godfrey of Bouillon
  Godfrey of Bouillon
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  Deng Xiaoping
• Arthur Wellesley
  Arthur Wellesley
• John Dillinger
  John Dillinger
• Biograph Theater
  Biograph Theater
• Wiley Post
  Wiley Post
• Stanley Forman
  Stanley Forman
• Gia Long
  Gia Long

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Pi Approximation Day	no RS for 22/7 observance; more apt for 3/14?
1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon was elected the first Protector of the Holy Sepulchre in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.	needs more footnotes
1456 – Forces under John Hunyadi lifted the Siege of Belgrade and defeated an Ottoman invasion into the Kingdom of Hungary.	unreferenced section
1812 – Peninsular War: An Anglo-Portuguese force led by Arthur Wellesley inflicted a severe defeat on Marshal Auguste de Marmont and his French troops near Salamanca, Spain.	needs more footnotes
1933 – Wiley Post became the first pilot to fly solo around the world, landing after a seven-day, nineteen-hour flight at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York City.	refimprove section
1934 – Bank robber John Dillinger, whose exploits were sensationalized across the United States, was shot dead by police in an ambush outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago.	multiple issues
1946 – A bomb destroyed the headquarters of the British Mandate of Palestine at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing about 90 people and injuring 45 others.	missing page numbers
1977 – After having been removed from power by the Gang of Four the year before, Deng Xiaoping returned to leadership positions within the Chinese Communist Party.	refimprove section
1992 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxurious private prison and spent the next 17 months on the run.	refimprove
1993 – During the Great Flood of 1993, levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois, US, ruptured, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.	more citations needed
2002 – Following a trial that captivated Brazil, a court in São Paulo sentenced Suzane von Richthofen to 39½ years in prison for the murders of her parents.	multiple issues
2003 – Coalition forces attacked a compound in Mosul, killing two of Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, the "aces of hearts and clubs" on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis.	Uday: too many quotes, Qusay: refimprove
2005 – London metropolitan police killed Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian immigrant, after misidentifying him as being involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts on the city.	refimprove section
2011 – Two sequential terrorist attacks in Oslo and Utøya claimed the lives of 77 people in the deadliest attack in Norway since World Template:Nowrap.	Overly detailed section
Josefa de Óbidos |d|1684|	Too much uncited
Sobhuza II |b|1899|	Too much uncited
Sándor Kocsis|d|1979|	Too much uncited
Harold Larwood |d|1995|	Unencyclopedic tone
Dennis Farina|d|2013|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 838 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeated Byzantine troops led by Emperor Theophilos at the Battle of Anzen, near present-day Dazman, Turkey.
• 1298 – First War of Scottish Independence: English forces led by Edward I defeated William Wallace's Scottish troops at the Battle of Falkirk.
• 1802 – Gia Long conquered Hanoi and unified modern-day Vietnam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
• 1817 – Windham William Sadler made the first successful aerial crossing of the Irish Sea, which he accomplished by balloon.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces unsuccessfully attacked Union troops at the Battle of Atlanta.
• 1894 – Jules-Albert de Dion finished first in the world's first motor race, but did not win as his steam-powered car was against the rules.
• 1944 – World War II: In opposition to the government-in-exile based in London, the Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation was proclaimed to govern territory recaptured from Germany.
• 1954 – A limited state of martial law was declared in Russell County, Alabama, due to organized crime.
• 1975 – Stanley Forman (pictured) took the Pulitzer Prize–winning photo Fire Escape Collapse, which spurred action to improve the safety of fire escapes across the United States.
• 1991 – American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after police discovered human remains in his apartment.
• 1997 – Written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece, the best-selling manga series in history, debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump.
• 2002 – The Israel Defense Forces bombed the home of Salah Shehade, the leader of the military arm of Hamas, killing him, his family and neighboring civilians.
• Born/died: | Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton|b|1552| Anthony Browne |b|1552| Thomas Macnamara Russell|d|1824| Emma Lazarus |b|1849| Augusta Fox Bronner |b|1881| Edward Hopper |b|1882| James Whale|b|1889| James Whitcomb Riley |d|1916| Indra Lal Roy|d|1918| Bob Dole |b|1923| Louise Fletcher|b|1934| Willem Dafoe|b|1955| Albertus Soegijapranata|d|1963| Alex Cole-Hamilton |b|1977| George Armitage Miller |d|2012| Prince George of Wales |b|2013| Johann Breyer|d|2014|

July 22: Feast day of Saint Mary Magdalene (Christianity) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1209 – A crusader army captured Béziers, France, and massacred the city's inhabitants in the first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
• 1691 – Williamite forces defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Aughrim, the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland.
• 1951 – Soviet space dogs: Dezik and Tsygan were launched into a sub-orbital spaceflight from Kapustin Yar and became the first dogs to fly in space and the first to safely return.
• 1963 – The United Kingdom granted self-government to Sarawak (first flag pictured), the day would be celebrated as Sarawak Day.
• 1976 – Japan completed its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.