Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 22

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 * 1209 – A crusader army captured Béziers, France, and massacred the city's inhabitants in the first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
 * 1298 – First War of Scottish Independence: English forces led by Edward I defeated William Wallace's Scottish troops at the Battle of Falkirk.
 * 1691 – Williamite forces defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Aughrim, the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland.
 * 1802 – Gia Long (pictured) conquered Hanoi and unified modern-day Vietnam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
 * 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.
 * 1991 – American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after police discovered human remains in his apartment.
 * 1997 – Written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece, the best-selling manga series in history, debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump.
 * 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.
 * Born/died: | Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton|b|1552| Anthony Browne |b|1552| Thomas Macnamara Russell|d|1824| Emma Lazarus |b|1849| Augusta Fox Bronner |b|1881| Edward Hopper |b|1882| James Whale|b|1889| James Whitcomb Riley |d|1916| Indra Lal Roy|d|1918| Bob Dole |b|1923| Albertus Soegijapranata|d|1963| Selena Gomez |b|1992| Harold Larwood |d|1995| George Armitage Miller |d|2012| Johann Breyer|d|2014| Ursula Franklin|d|2016|

July 22: Feast day of Saint Mary Magdalene (Christianity)


 * 838 – 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.
 * 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.
 * 1944 – World War II: In opposition to the government-in-exile based in London, the Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation was proclaimed to govern territory recaptured from Germany.
 * 1954 – A limited state of martial law was declared in Russell County, Alabama, due to organized crime.