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Daily Calendar for Saturday, July 22, 2028
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Saturday, July 22, 2028
Born
- Gregor Mendel (geneticist) –
- William Archibald Spooner (known for verbal inversions called spoonerisms”“) –
- Emma Lazarus (poet) –
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (matriarch of the Kennedy family) –
- Amy Vanderbilt (journalist) –
- Bob Dole (politician) –
- Dorcas Reilly (inventor of Campbell’s green bean casserole; born in Woodbury, N.J.) –
- Dorcus Reilly (home economist) –
- Oscar de la Renta (fashion desinger) –
- Alex Trebek (game show host) –
- Danny Glover (actor) –
- Albert Brooks (actor) –
- Don Henley (singer) –
- S.E. Hinton (author) –
- Willem Dafoe (actor) –
- Rhys Ifans (actor) –
- Kristine Lilly (soccer player) –
- Selena Gomez (singer and actress) –
- George Alexander Louis of Cambridge (British prince) –
Died
- Napoleon II of France –
- James Whitcomb Riley (poet) –
- William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canadian prime minister) –
- Corbett Monica (actor) –
- Estelle Getty (American actress ) –
- Dennis Farina (actor) –
- Ozzy Osbourne (singer) –
Events
- Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico –
- Maria Spelterini walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. She crossed with her ankles and wrists manacled to inject some drama –
- Flying in his plane, the Winnie Mae, Wiley Post completed the first solo around-the-world flight –
- John Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1, was shot and fatally wounded by a group of FBI agents –
- Frank Zybach’s “self-propelled sprinkling irrigating apparatus” patented –
- Romanian gymnast, Nadia Comaneci, becomes the first Olympic athlete to score a perfect 10 –
Weather
- 504 sheep struck dead in their tracks by a single lighning bolt, Wasatch National Forest, Utah –
- Barrow, Alaska, where the average annual precipitation is 4.75 inches, received 1.38 inches in 24 hours –