July 22 is:
Hammock Day – Hammocks are a symbol of summer, leisure, relaxation and simple easy living.
Ratcatcher’s Day, commemorating the myth of the “Pied Piper of Hamelin” by Robert Browning
Spoonerism Day Spoonerisms are words or phrases in which letters or syllables get swapped. This often happens accidentally in slips of the tongue (or tips of the slung as Spoonerisms are often affectionately called!): For example:
- Tease my ears (Ease my tears)
- A lack of pies (A pack of lies)
- It’s roaring with pain (It’s pouring with rain)
- Wave the sails (Save the whales)
National Penuche Fudge Day Penuche is a fudge-like candy made from brown sugar, butter, and milk, using no flavorings except for vanilla.
Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrived on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in 1587 to re-establish the deserted colony.
The Acts of Union of 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each country’s Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
On July 22, 1796, surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company named an area in Ohio “Cleveland” after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
Birthday of Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849), American poet who wrote “The New Colossus”, the last part of which is engraved on a plaque and mounted inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
July 22, 1893, Katharine Lee Bates wrote “America the Beautiful,” in Colorado.
Birthday of Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898), American poet and novelist who was best known for “his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, ‘John Brown’s Body’ (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster‘ (1936) and ‘By the Waters of Babylon‘ (1937).