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Events on 22 July

Events

• First dogs in space – Tsygan and Dezik [1951]

Important Celebrations and Functions

• Pi Approximation Day

Birthdays

• Seth Fisher [1972]
  American comic books artist
• Karl Koch [1965]
  German hacker known as 'haggard'
• Vaughn Bodē [1941]
  American underground artist and cartoonist
• Selman Waksman [1888]
  Nobel laureate who discovered more than 20 antibiotics and even coined that word
• Gustav Hertz [1887]
  Nobel laureate who proved the quantum nature of atoms

Death Anniversaries

• Floyd Gottfredson [1986]
  American cartoonist
• Reginald Fessenden [1932]
  One of the pioneers of radio technology
• Sandford Fleming [1915]
  Proposer of worldwide standard time zones
• Giuseppe Piazzi [1826]
  Discoverer of Ceres, the first dwarf planet