12 History Lessons + 5 Births & 7 Deaths for July 22, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1298 – Battle of Falkirk: English forces defeat William Wallace and the Scots.
- 1499 – Battle of Dornach: Swiss forces defeat the Holy Roman Empire, securing Swiss independence.
- 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean, completing the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico.
- 1796 – Cleveland, Ohio is founded by surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company.
- 1933 – Wiley Post completes the first solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: The deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka begins.
- 1946 – King David Hotel bombing in Jerusalem by the Irgun kills 91 people.
- 1951 – Dezik and Tsygan become the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight and return alive.
- 1972 – Venera 8 successfully transmits data from the surface of Venus back to Earth.
- 2003 – Members of Saddam Hussein’s family, including sons Uday and Qusay, are killed by U.S. forces in Iraq.
- 2011 – A right-wing extremist kills 77 people in attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utøya, Norway.
- 2020 – The U.S. orders China to close its consulate in Houston, escalating diplomatic tensions.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1947 – Don Henley, musician, founding member of The Eagles (78)
- 1955 – Willem Dafoe, actor (Platoon, Spider-Man) (70)
- 1963 – Emily Saliers, musician (Indigo Girls) (62)
- 1992 – Selena Gomez, singer and actress (Only Murders in the Building) (33)
- 1993 – Keegan Allen, actor (Pretty Little Liars) (32)
Today’s Deaths:
- 1461 – Charles VII of France, monarch during the Hundred Years’ War (58)
- 1832 – Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte and former King of Rome (21)
- 1932 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian radio pioneer (65)
- 1967 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and Lincoln biographer (89)
- 2003 – Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of Saddam Hussein (39 and 36)
- 2008 – Estelle Getty, actress (The Golden Girls) (84)
- 2016 – Marni Nixon, playback singer for Hollywood musicals (The King and I, West Side Story) (86)
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