Video: '1933 Wiley Post makes First solo flight around the world newsreel archival footage'
(Saturday, July 22, 1933, 11:59:30 p.m. local time) — Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world tonight, traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes and landing 30 seconds before midnight at New York’s Floyd Bennett Field, where he had departed on July 15.
Video: 'Seabiscuit' trailer
(Tuesday, July 22, 2003) — Seabiscuit, a biographical sports drama film about the life and racing career of Seabiscuit, an undersized and overlooked thoroughbred race horse, whose unexpected successes made him a hugely popular media sensation in the United States during the Great Depression, premiered today in the U.S.
Directed by Gary Ross, the film starred Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Gary Stevens and William H. Macy.
Video: 'Allied invasion of Sicily' (July 22, 1943, at 33:05)
(Thursday, July 22, 1943, 7:00 p.m. local time; during the Allied invasion of Sicily, part of the Italian Campaign of World War II) — The American 7th Army led by Gen. George S. Patton tonight captured Palermo, the Sicilian capital. Americans had cut off 50,000 Italian troops in the west, but Germans were escaping to the northeastern corner of the island.
Video: 'Katherine Lee Bates -America the Beautiful'
(Saturday, July 22, 1893) — Wellesley College professor Katharine Lee Bates today visited the summit of Pikes Peak, where she was inspired to write the original version of her poem “America the Beautiful.” Samuel A. Ward’s music to the poem would be published in 1910.
