On This Day for July 22 - Deng Xiaoping reinstated, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel is featured, and more

Created: 2020-07-22 10:04 Updated: 2020-07-22 10:04 Notebook: On this Day in History

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July 22

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

FEATURED EVENT

1977

Deng Xiaoping reinstated

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Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge: christening

2013: Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, the first child of Prince William, duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, duchess of Cambridge, was born in London. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about English royalty.]

2011: Terrorist attacks on Oslo and the island of Utøya in Norway resulted in the deaths of 77 people; Anders Behring Breivik later confessed to the attacks.

1923: American baseball player Walter Johnson became the first pitcher in the MLB to strike out 3,000 batters; his career record of 3,508 strikeouts stood until 1983. [ Test your knowledge of baseball.]

1923: Bob Dole—U.S. senator (1968–96), Republican congressional leader, and his party's candidate for the presidency in 1996—was born in Russell, Kansas. [ Take our quiz about the history of American politics.]

Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington

1812: The duke of Wellington defeated “40,000 Frenchmen in 40 minutes” at Salamanca, Spain, during the Peninsular War. [ Take our history of war quiz.]

1456: Hungarian forces led by János Hunyadi, including an untrained army of peasants, won one of the most remarkable victories in the history of Turkish wars, resisting the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II 's siege of Belgrade. [ How much do you know about the Ottoman Empire?]

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