TODAY IN HISTORY - JULY 22ND

1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon (d. 1780) is born.

1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.

1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.

1869 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (b. 1806) dies.

1882 – Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher (d. 1967) is born.

1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.

1915 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827) dies.

1916 – Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.

1933 – Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York, NY, completing the first solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.

1934 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.

1937 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.

1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.

1967 – Carl Sandburg, American journalist and author (b. 1878) dies.

1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.

1992 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer (Selena Gomez & the Scene) is born.

1993 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.

1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.

2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.