📜 This Day in History

July 22

• 838Arab–Byzantine wars: The forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeated Byzantine troops led by Emperor Theophilos at the Battle of Anzen, near present-day Dazman, Turkey.
• 1691Williamite forces defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Aughrim, the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland.
• 1864American Civil War: Confederate forces unsuccessfully attacked Union troops at the Battle of Atlanta.
• 1954A limited state of martial law was declared in Russell County, Alabama, due to organized crime.
• 1976Japan completed its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
• 2002The Israel Defense Forces bombed the home of Salah Shehade, the leader of the military arm of Hamas, killing him, his family and neighboring civilians.

Born on this day

• 1878Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author (died 1942)
• 1887Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
• 1955Willem Dafoe, American actor
• 1992Selena Gomez, American singer and actress