July 22nd, 1942

Born on July 22nd, 1942

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What happened on July 22nd, 1942?

July 22nd, 1942

Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossaktion_Warsaw

What else happened on July 22nd?

July 22nd, 2002

The Israel Defense Forces bombed the home of Salah Shehade, the leader of the military arm of the Palestinian organization Hamas, killing him, his family and neighboring civilians.

July 22nd, 1991

American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after police discovered human remains in his apartment.

July 22nd, 1975

Stanley Forman took the Pulitzer Prize–winning photo Fire Escape Collapse, which spurred action to improve the safety of fire escapes across the United States.

July 22nd, 1963

The United Kingdom granted self-government to Sarawak.

July 22nd, 1954

A limited state of martial law was declared in Russell County, Alabama, due to organized crime.

July 22nd, 1944

World War II: In opposition to the London-based government-in-exile, the Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation was proclaimed to govern territory recaptured from Nazi Germany.

July 22nd, 1894

Jules-Albert de Dion (pictured) finished first in the world's first motor race, but did not win as his steam-powered car was against the rules.

July 22nd, 1864

American Civil War: Confederate forces unsuccessfully attacked Union troops at the Battle of Atlanta.

July 22nd, 1802

Gia Long (pictured) conquered Hanoi and unified modern-day Vietnam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.

July 22nd, 1691

Williamite forces defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Aughrim, the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland.

July 22nd, 1298

First War of Scottish Independence: English forces led by Edward I defeated William Wallace's Scottish troops at the Battle of Falkirk.

July 22nd, 1209

A crusader army captured Béziers, France, and massacred the city's inhabitants in the first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.

July 22nd, 0838

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.

July 22nd, 2019

Chandrayaan-2, the second lunar exploration mission developed by Indian Space Research Organisation after Chandrayaan-1 is launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in a GSLV Mark III M1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, and also included the Vikram lander, and the Pragyan lunar rover.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on July 22nd

Born on July 22nd, 1942

81

Jennifer Bassey

American actress

*July 22nd, 1942, Chicago

77

Anthony James

American actor (1942–2020)

*July 22nd, 1942, Myrtle Beach †May 26th, 2020, Cambridge

81

Lucecita Benítez

Puerto Rican musician

*July 22nd, 1942, Bayamón

81

Anita Neville

Canadian politician

*July 22nd, 1942, Winnipeg

81

Peter Habeler

Austrian mountaineer

*July 22nd, 1942, Mayrhofen

81

Bernd Schröder

German football manager

*July 22nd, 1942, Travemünde

81

Gaston Bellemare

Canadian editor

*July 22nd, 1942, Saint-Étienne-des-Grès

81

Les Johns

Australian rugby league footballer and coach

*July 22nd, 1942, Newcastle

81

Toyohiro Akiyama

First Japanese astronaut

*July 22nd, 1942, Setagaya-ku

69

Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun

British-Australian politician (1942-2012)

*July 22nd, 1942, Sussex †June 30th, 2012, New South Wales

81

Philippe Kourilsky

French biologist

*July 22nd, 1942, Boulogne-Billancourt

81

Roy Heiser

American baseball player

*July 22nd, 1942, Baltimore

81

Ray Rissmiller

American football player

*July 22nd, 1942, Easton

81

Henk Krediet

Modern pentathlete

*July 22nd, 1942, Sneek

81

Ingo Kober

German lawyer

*July 22nd, 1942, Legnica

81

George Dean Johnson, Jr.

American lawyer

*July 22nd, 1942, Columbia

75

Mazhar Kaleem

Pakistani writer

*July 22nd, 1942, Multan †May 26th, 2018, Multan

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79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

31

Selena Gomez

American singer and actress (born 1992)

*July 22nd, 1992, Grand Prairie

77

Rolf Konow

Danish photographer and actor

*July 22nd, 1946, Copenhagen

77

Mireille Mathieu

French singer

*July 22nd, 1946, Avignon

26

Marília Mendonça

Brazilian singer, songwriter and instrumentalist (1995–2021)

*July 22nd, 1995, Cristianópolis †November 5th, 2021, Piedade de Caratinga

77

Danny Glover

American actor, film director and political activist

*July 22nd, 1946, San Francisco

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

74

Alan Menken

American composer (born 1949)

*July 22nd, 1949, New Rochelle

63

John Leguizamo

American actor, comedian, producer, and writer (born 1960)

*July 22nd, 1960, Bogotá

63

Denyse Julien

Badminton player

*July 22nd, 1960, Rouyn-Noranda

35

Thomas Kraft

German footballer

*July 22nd, 1988, Kirchen

64

César Ferioli

Spanish, Italian rooted comic book artist.

*July 22nd, 1959, Barcelona

77

Paul Jorion

Anthropologist, sociologist, writer

*July 22nd, 1946, Ixelles - Elsene

82

George Clinton

American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer

*July 22nd, 1941, Kannapolis

35

Jakub Bitman

Badminton player

*July 22nd, 1988, Prague

36

Rosaria Yusfin Pungkasari

Indonesian badminton player

*July 22nd, 1987, Temanggung

68

Willem Dafoe

American actor (1955-)

*July 22nd, 1955, Appleton

91

Orson Bean

American actor (1928–2020)

*July 22nd, 1928, Burlington †February 7th, 2020, Venice

23

Hirari Mizui

Badminton player

*July 22nd, 2000, Nara Prefecture

60

Olivier Gourmet

Belgian actor

*July 22nd, 1963, Namur

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Born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

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No: With 365 days 1942 is a normal year and no leap year.

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