July 22

Today in History
• 1099 - Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre
• 1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
• 1306 - King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France
• 1489 - "Tractate Niddah" a talmudic edition, 1st printed
• 1515 - First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire
• 1587 - 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off North Carolina
• 1686 - City of Albany, NY chartered
• 1729 - Diamonds found in Minas Geras, Brazil


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Casual Pi Day
• Mango Day
• National Day of the Cowboy
• National Fragile X Awareness Day
• National Hammock Day
• Sarawak Day
• Spoonerism Day
• World Brain Day

Birthdays
• 1210 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland
• 1478 - Philip I, (the Handsome), 1st Habsburg King of Spain (1504-06)
• 1510 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence
• 1596 - Michael I, first Russian Tsar of the House of Romanov (1613-45)
• 1647 - Margaretha Mary Alacoque, French Roman Catholic saint and mystic
• 1763 - James Geddes, American Engineer (Erie Canal)
• 1844 - William Archibald Spooner, reverend and inventor (spoonerisms)
• 1890 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mom of John F. Kennedy, RFK and Ted