July 22 What You Need To Know About This Date In History

It’s July 22nd ALL DAY and these events happened on this date in history.

1298 As seen in Braveheart, English defeat the Scots at the Battle of Falkirk
1587 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off North Carolina
1864 Battle of Atlanta: General Sherman's Union side defeats Confederate troops under General Hood, with 8,449 Confederate and 3,641 US casualties
1893 Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" in Colorado
1934 Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents
1937 US Senate rejects FDR's proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
1942 300,000 Warsaw Ghetto Jews are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp
1943 US forces led by General George S. Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily
1972 Soviet Venera 8 makes soft landing on the Planet Venus
1975 US House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee
1983 Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 men in 1978
1992 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes prison
1999 Woodstock '99 music festival begins at Griffiss Park, Rome, New York (runs until 25th); attended by 200,000, ended due to violence
2019 Marvel superhero film "Avengers: Endgame" becomes the world's highest-grossing film overtaking "Avatar" earning $2.9 billion

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