Talk:July 22

July 22: Pi Approximation Day; Feast day of Mary Magdalene

• 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon was elected the first Protector of the Holy Sepulchre in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• 1793 – Two days after becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico, Scottish-Canadian explorer Alexander MacKenzie reached the westernmost point of his journey and inscribed his name on a rock using a reddish paint made of vermilion and rendered bear fat.
• 1812 – Peninsular War: Near Salamanca, Spain, an Anglo-Portuguese force led by Arthur Wellesley (pictured) inflicted a severe defeat on Marshal Auguste Marmont and his French troops in the Battle of Salamanca.
• 1933 – Wiley Post became the first pilot to fly a fixed-wing aircraft solo around the world.
• 1946 – An Irgun bomb destroyed the headquarters of the British Mandate of Palestine at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing about 90 people and injuring 45 others.
• 2003 – Coalition forces attacked a compound in Mosul, Iraq, killing two of Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, the "aces of hearts and clubs" on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis after the invasion of Iraq.

More events: July 21 – July 22 – July 23