Today in History, July 22

Every day is flush with history. July 22^nd is certainly no exception.

1306 - It is ordered by King Phillip the Fair that all Jews be expelled from France

1489 - "Tractate Niddah" first printed

1515 - Louis of Hungary IX marries Maria of Bohemia and succession to Hungarian throne, and Anna of Bohemia XII marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria, on the same day that Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire

1535 - In uprising against Adm Barbarossa, Christians captured in Tunis

1587 - The second English colony forms on Roanoke Island

1632 - For King Philip IV, the foundation is laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace

1648 - In Chmielnick massacre, 10,000 Jews of Polannoe are murdered

1686 - City of Albany, New York chartered

1729 - Diamonds are found in Brazil at Minas Geras

1731 - Spain signs Treaty of Vienna

1775 - George Washington takes command of U.S. troops

1796 - Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleveland

1893 - In Colorado, Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful"

1918 - 504 sheep are killed in Utah's Wasatch National Park due to lightening

1933 - The first around the world solo flight is completed by Wiley Post

1937 - Senate rejects President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court

1942 - Gasoline rationing using coupons begins, and 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto are taken to Treblinka extermination Camp

1943 - Sicily is liberated by United States forces led by General George Patton

1944 - Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation

1950 - After six years of exile, King Leopold returns to Belgium

1952 - Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution

1955 - Richard Nixon is the first vice president to preside over a cabinet meeting

1960 - All United States owned Cuban sugar factories are nationalized

1963 - Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles"

1967 - Jimi Hendrix was to be the opening act for the Monkees tour; he quits

1969 - U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 50; Aretha Franklin is arrested in Detroit for disturbing the peace

1975 - The United States House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee