| General Information for July 22nd 2017 |
| There are 1 public holidays today. |
| Day 203 of 2017 |
| 162 days left in 2017 |
| Week 29 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 1946 - After a failed wheat harvest, bread was rationed in Britain. |
| 1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, the US impresario famed for his girls and staircases in his Follies shows, died. |
| 1844 - The Rev William Spooner was born in London. He was an albino and suffered defective eyesight and it is thought that this caused some of his verbal confusions which were later dubbed 'spoonerisms'. These included 'it is kisstomary to cuss the bride' and 'you hissed my mystery lecture'. |
| 1298 - The English used longbows for the first time, when they defeated the Scots at the Battle of Falkirk. |