July 22 in history: • 1209 – A crusading army captured Béziers, France, and massacred the city's inhabitants in the first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade. → go there • 1691 – Williamite forces defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Aughrim, the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. → go there • 1951 – Soviet space dogs: Dezik and Tsygan were launched into a sub-orbital spaceflight from Kapustin Yar and became the first dogs to fly in space and the first to safely return. → go there • 1963 – The United Kingdom granted self-government to Sarawak (first flag pictured); the day would be celebrated as Sarawak Day. → go there • 1976 – Japan completed its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War. → go there Born 1917: Adam Malik Wiki link Born 1976: Nadja Stefanoff Wiki link Died 2016: Ursula Franklin Wiki link Died 2025: Ozzy Osbourne Wiki link Pictured: First flag of Sarawak.