Trevor Blake: Day of Disappearance
Pi Approximation Day (22/7 is approximately equal to pi) is a Day of Disappearance…
July 22 1376 – The Pied Piper of Hamelin makes off with the town’s rats and children.
July 22 1587 – Roanoke, the colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, is found to be missing.
July 22 1676 – Pope Clement X dies.
July 22 1932 – Errico Malatesta dies.
July 22 1934 – John Dillinger dies.
July 22 1942 – the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
July 22 1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
July 22 1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
July 22 1992 – Near Medellin, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
July 22 1992 – Wayne McLaren (The Marlboro Man) dies.
July 22 1993 – Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
