07-22-2006, 11:06 AM
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July 22nd
1822 ~ Birthday of Br. Gregor Mendel, Austrian Geneticist.
1887 ~ Birthday of Gustav Hertz, German Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1925.
1898 ~ Birthday of Alexander Calder, American Artist.
1934 ~ John Dillinger was shot to death by FBI agents in Chicago.
1946 ~ The Irgun bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British administration, killing ninety.
1967 ~ Death of Carl Sandburg, Poet.
1977 ~ Deng Xiaoping returns to Chinese Government.
1992 ~ Pablo Escobar, fearing extradition to the U.S., escaped from his luxury prison.
1998 ~ Death of Alan Shepard, Astronaut.
2003 ~ Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed when U.S. forces stormed a villa in Mosul, Iraq.
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