Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on July 22 throughout history.
Chandrayaan-2 is the second lunar exploration mission developed by ISRO after Chandrayaan-1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, the Vikram lunar lander, and the Pragyan rover, all of…
Chandrayaan-2, the second lunar exploration mission developed by Indian Space Research Organisation after…
On 22 July 2013, a series of earthquakes occurred in Dingxi, Gansu. The first quake struck at 07:45 China Standard Time with an epicenter located at the border of Min County and Z…
Dingxi earthquakes: A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.
The Syrian civil war was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggere…
Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) captured the cities of Serê Kaniyê and Dirbêsiyê, during clashes…
On 22 July 2011, 32-year-old Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik committed two domestic terrorist attacks in Norway against the government, the civilian populatio…
Norway attacks: A bomb explodes, targeted at government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth…
Jean Charles da Silva de Menezes was a Brazilian man fatally shot and wrongfully killed by the Metropolitan Police Service at Stockwell Station of the London Underground, after be…
Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005…
The Iraq War, also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States–led coalition, whic…
Iraq War: Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing…
The Blue Water Bridge is a twin-span international bridge across the St. Clair River that links Port Huron, Michigan, United States, and Point Edward, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Wa…
The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
The Great Flood of 1993 was a flood that occurred in the Midwestern United States, along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries, from April to October 1993.
Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated…
Medellín, officially the Special District of Science, Technology and Innovation of Medellín, is the second-largest city in Colombia after Bogotá, and the capital of the department…
Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United…
Gregory James LeMond is an American former road racing cyclist. He won the Tour de France three times, and the Road Race World Championship twice, becoming the only American male …
Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It…
Martial law in Poland existed between 13 December 1981 and 22 July 1983. The government of the Polish People's Republic drastically restricted everyday life by introducing martial…
Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
The 1981 South African rugby tour polarised opinions and inspired widespread protests across New Zealand. The controversy also extended to the United States, where the South Afric…
The first game of the 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States is held in Gisborne, New…
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to 1989. Emerging…
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands…
Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of…
Pan Am Flight 816 was an international flight from Auckland, New Zealand, to San Francisco, California, via Tahiti, French Polynesia, and Los Angeles, California. It was operated …
Pan Am Flight 816 crashes after takeoff from Faa'a International Airport in Papeete, French Polynesia, killing 78.
The Crown Colony of Sarawak was a British Crown colony on the island of Borneo, established in 1946, shortly after the dissolution of the British Military Administration. It was s…
Crown Colony of Sarawak gains self-governance.
The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built…
Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviet space program used dogs for suborbital and orbital space flights as proof-of-concept to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. The So…
Soviet space dogs: Dezik and Tsygan were launched into a sub-orbital spaceflight from Kapustin Yar and became the…
The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack on 22 July 194…
King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site…
The Polish Committee of National Liberation, also known as the Lublin Committee, was an executive governing authority established by the Soviet-backed communists in Poland at the …
The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland.