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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48745)	7/22/2005 4:11:17 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

July 22: 1812 – Peninsular War: Near Salamanca, Spain, an Anglo-Portuguese force led by Arthur Wellesley inflicted a severe defeat on Marshal Auguste Marmont and his French troops in the Battle of Salamanca. 1933 – Wiley Post became the first pilot to fly a fixed-wing aircraft solo around the world. 1934 – Bank robber John Dillinger, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Public Enemy Number One", was shot dead in an ambush in Chicago. 1946 – An Irgun bomb destroyed the headquarters of the British Mandate of Palestine at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90. 2003 – U.S. forces attacked a compound in Mosul, Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay.