On this day: July 22 2023-07-22 02:00:00
July 22: Feast day of Saint Mary Magdalene (Christianity)
Jules-Albert de Dion
- 1298 – First War of Scottish Independence: English forces led by Edward I defeated William Wallace's Scottish troops at the Battle of Falkirk.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces unsuccessfully attacked Union troops at the Battle of Atlanta.
- 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.
- 1963 – The United Kingdom granted self-government to Sarawak.
- 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.
- Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton (b. 1552)
- Indra Lal Roy (d. 1918)
- Albertus Soegijapranata (d. 1963)
- Ursula Franklin (d. 2016)