July 22

Emma Lazarus, the poet whose sonnet 'The New Colossus' is inscribed at the Statue of Liberty, was born into a Jewish family in New York City.

The University of Birmingham announced that radiocarbon tests dated two leaves of its Qur'an manuscript to roughly 568-645 CE, among the earliest known.

Astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Bessel, the first to measure the distance to a star using stellar parallax, was born on 22 July 1784 in Minden, in present-day Germany.