Historical Events
- 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at Bronx Zoological Park, New York City
- Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's musical revue "Shuffle Along" the 1st hit Broadway show with an all-Black cast closes at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre, NYC, after 504 performances [1]
US Golf Open
US Open Men's Golf, Skokie CC: Gene Sarazen wins the first of his 7 major titles, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up John Black and 20-year-old amateur Bobby Jones
Famous Birthdays
- Jef Houthuys, Belgian trade unionist (chairman Belgian labor union ACV 1968-87), born in Opwijk, Belgian (d. 1991)
- Jiří Lederer, Czech journalist and anti-communist dissident (Prague Spring), born in Kvasiny, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1983)
- Leon M. Lederman, American experimental physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988 - for research on quarks and leptons) and author (The God Particle), born in New York City (d. 2018) [1]
About July 15, 1922
Day of the Week: Saturday
How Long Ago? 101 years, 9 months and 14 days
Leap Year: No
Generation: Greatest Generation
Chinese Zodiac: Dog
Star Sign: Cancer
