07-22-2004, 12:06 PM
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July 22nd
1793 ~ Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific Ocean becoming the first European to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico.
1796 ~ Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company named an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1822 ~ Birthday of Gregor Mendel, pioneering Geneticist.
1887 ~ Birthday of Gustav Ludwig Hertz, quantum physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
1898 ~ Birthday of Alexander Calder, Artist.
1933 ~ Wiley Post became the first man to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934 ~ Death of John Dillinger, bank robber, shot at the Biograph Theater in Chicago.
1967 ~ Death of Carl Sandburg, Poet.
1992 ~ Colombian drug boss Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison in Medellín, fearing extradition to the United States.
2003 ~ Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay killed.
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