| General Information for July 22nd 2018 |
| There are 2 public holidays today. |
| Day 203 of 2018 |
| 162 days left in 2018 |
| Week 29 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 1992 - Wayne McLaren, who portrayed the Marlboro Man in ads for the cigarette brand, dies (b. 1940). |
| 1969 - The death of the tallest ever giraffe is recorded in The Guinness Book of Records. |
| 1946 - After a failed wheat harvest, bread was rationed in Britain. |
| 1478 - Philip the Handsome of Spain was born. After his death his wife kept his corpse and continued to sleep with it beside her bed for three years. Her name was Joanna the Mad. |