Daily Calendar for Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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Gregor Mendel (geneticist) – 1822
William Archibald Spooner (known for verbal inversions called spoonerisms”“) – 1844
Emma Lazarus (poet) – 1849
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (matriarch of the Kennedy family) – 1890
Amy Vanderbilt (journalist) – 1908
Bob Dole (politician) – 1923
Dorcas Reilly (inventor of Campbell’s green bean casserole; born in Woodbury, N.J.) – 1926
Dorcus Reilly (home economist) – 1926
Oscar de la Renta (fashion desinger) – 1932
Alex Trebek (game show host) – 1940
Danny Glover (actor) – 1947
Albert Brooks (actor) – 1947
Don Henley (singer) – 1947
S.E. Hinton (author) – 1948
Willem Dafoe (actor) – 1955
Rhys Ifans (actor) – 1968
Kristine Lilly (soccer player) – 1971
Selena Gomez (singer and actress) – 1992
George Alexander Louis of Cambridge (British prince) – 2013

Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico – 1793
Maria Spelterini walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. She crossed with her ankles and wrists manacled to inject some drama – 1876
Flying in his plane, the Winnie Mae, Wiley Post completed the first solo around-the-world flight – 1933
John Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1, was shot and fatally wounded by a group of FBI agents – 1934
Frank Zybach’s “self-propelled sprinkling irrigating apparatus” patented – 1952
Romanian gymnast, Nadia Comaneci, becomes the first Olympic athlete to score a perfect 10 – 1976

504 sheep struck dead in their tracks by a single lighning bolt, Wasatch National Forest, Utah – 1918
Barrow, Alaska, where the average annual precipitation is 4.75 inches, received 1.38 inches in 24 hours – 1987