History for July 22

History for July 22 - On-This-Day.com
Gregor Mendel 1822, Karl Menninger 1893, Alexander Calder 1898


Bob Dole 1923, Alex Trebek 1940, Albert Brooks 1947


1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date.


1587 - A second English colony was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. The colony vanished under mysterious circumstances.


1796 - Cleveland was founded by General Moses Cleaveland.


1798 - The USS Constitution was underway and out to sea for the first time since being launched on October 21, 1797.


1933 - Wiley Post ended his around-the-world flight. He had traveled 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.


1943 - American forces led by General George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily.


2003 - In northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai died after a gunfight with U.S. forces.


2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis landed successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135. It was the final flight of NASA's space shuttle program.