Today is Monday, July twenty second, the 204th day of the yr 2024. There are 162 days left within the yr.
Today’s highlight of the story:
On July 22, 1933, pilot Wiley Post landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York City and accomplished the primary solo flight around the globe in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
Also on this date:
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet.
In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot dead by federal agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, where he had just seen the Clark Gable film “Manhattan Melodrama.”
In 1937, the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal so as to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
In 1942, the Nazis began deporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
In 1943, American forces under General George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily during World War II.
In 1975, the House of Representatives voted with the Senate to revive the American citizenship of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
In 1991, Milwaukee police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys.
In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin (meh-deh-YEEN'). (He was murdered by security forces in December 1993.)
In 1999, the four-day Woodstock 99 music festival began. The event was ultimately marred by destruction and violence by concertgoers amid lax security measures and oppressive heat.
In 2011, Anders Breivik (AHN'-durs BRAY'-vihk), a self-described “militant nationalist,” massacred 69 people on a youth resort island in Norway after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight more people, the worst act of violence within the country since World War II.
In 2015, a federal grand jury indicted Dylann Roof, accused of killing nine black church members in Charleston, South Carolina. He was charged with 33 counts, including hate crimes that might warrant the death penalty against him. (Roof can be the primary person sentenced to death for a federal hate crime; he’s on death row in a federal prison in Indiana.)
In 2022, Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was present in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 rebellion on the U.S. Capitol. (Bannon is currently serving his four-month sentence in a federal prison.)
Today's birthdays:
- Author Tom Robbins is 92.
- Actor Terence Stamp is 86.
- Singer George Clinton is 83.
- Actor and singer Bobby Sherman is 81.
- Former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican Senator from Texas, is 81.
- The film author and director Paul Schrader is 78.
- Actor Danny Glover is 78.
- Singer Mireille Mathieu is 78.
- Actor, comedian and director Albert Brooks is 77.
- Rock singer Don Henley is 77.
- Author SE Hinton is 76.
- Film composer Alan Menken is 75.
- Jazz musician Al Di Meola (mee-OH'-lah) is 70.
- Actor Willem Dafoe is 69.
- Actor John Leguizamo is 64.
- R&B singer Keith Sweat is 63.
- Folk singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) is 61.
- Actor and comedian David Spade is 60.
- Actor Rhys Ifans (rees EYE'-fanz) is 57.
- The actor/singer Jaime Camil is 51.
- Singer Rufus Wainwright is 51.
- The actress Franka Potente (poh-TEN'-tay) is 50.
- Actress Selena Gomez is 32.
- NFL running back Ezekiel Elliott is 29.
- The British Prince George of Wales is 11.
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