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July 22 in History

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July 22

Longbows, Getaway Cars, and a Missing Hyphen

One square on the calendar somehow holds a crusader who refused a crown, a one-eyed pilot circling the globe, and a rocket doomed by a single punctuation mark. Seven July twenty-seconds, each stranger and more thrilling than the last.

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