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What happened on July 22 in American history
July 22 is the 203rd day of the year (the 204th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 6 stories from July 22 spanning 1864 to 1962. Among them: in 1864, Confederates strike from two sides at Atlanta; Union General McPherson is shot dead; and in 1893, a schoolteacher rides a mule to 14,000 feet and writes a poem called "Pikes Peak".
1864Member story · 1776 Club
Confederates strike from two sides at Atlanta; Union General McPherson is shot dead
Hood's gamble east of the city costs him 5,500 men and still does not save Atlanta.
1893
A schoolteacher rides a mule to 14,000 feet and writes a poem called "Pikes Peak"
Katharine Lee Bates jots the first lines in a notebook, with a nation in economic depression spread out below her.
1933Member story · 1776 Club
Post lands the Winnie Mae alone, and the world has never been circled this fast
Fifty thousand people packed Floyd Bennett Field to watch a one-eyed Oklahoma oil-field worker finish what no pilot had done without a navigator.
1937
The Senate buries Roosevelt's plan to add justices, 70 to 20
Five months after the fight began, the bill goes back to committee and does not return.
1943
Palermo falls to Patton's Seventh Army
Nine days after landing in the dark, American tanks roll into a Sicilian capital the Italian garrison no longer has the will to defend.
1962Member story · 1776 Club
Venus probe fishtails off course; range safety blows it up over the Atlantic
A single missing overline in the guidance code sent America's first Venus shot into pieces four minutes after launch.
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