Today in History: First Solo Helicopter Flight Around the World

The following is a list of top 10 global historical events that occurred on July 22:

1298: Battle of Falkirk During the Wars of Scottish Independence, King Edward I of England and his longbowmen decisively defeated William Wallace and his Scottish forces outside the town of Falkirk.

1812: Battle of Salamanca During the Peninsular War, a part of the Napoleonic Wars, a combined force of British, Portuguese, and Spanish troops under the Duke of Wellington achieved a significant victory over the French army at Salamanca, Spain.

1894: World’s First Competitive Motor Race The “Paris-Rouen, Le Petit Journal Competition for Horseless Carriages” was held, widely considered the world’s first competitive motor race between cities.

1933: Wiley Post Completes First Solo Around-the-World Flight American aviator Wiley Post landed in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes, aboard his Lockheed Vega monoplane, the “Winnie Mae.”

1942: Warsaw Ghetto Deportations Begin The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp began, marking a grim phase of the Holocaust during World War II.

1944: Soviet Forces Liberate Majdanek Concentration Camp Advancing Soviet troops reached and liberated the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland. This was one of the first major Nazi concentration camps to be discovered and exposed to the world.

1977: Deng Xiaoping Restored to Power in China Deng Xiaoping was officially restored to all his former high posts in the Chinese Communist Party after falling from favour during the Cultural Revolution, paving the way for his significant economic reforms.

1983: First Solo Helicopter Flight Around the World Australian adventurer Dick Smith completed the first solo helicopter flight around the world in a Bell Jetranger III.

2003: Uday and Qusay Hussein Killed Sons of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay Hussein, were killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Mosul, Iraq.

2011: Norway Attacks Anders Behring Breivik carried out two coordinated terrorist attacks in Norway. He detonated a car bomb in Oslo, killing eight people, before proceeding to a youth summer camp on the island of Utøya, where he massacred 69 participants.