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Today is Monday, July 22, the 204th day of 2024. There are 162 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 22, 1933, aviator Wiley Post landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world 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 to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
In 1942, the Nazis began transporting 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 joined the Senate in voting to restore Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s U.S. citizenship.
In 1991, police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to killing seventeen men and boys.
In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxurious prison near Medellin (meh-deh-YEEN’). (He was killed by security forces in December 1993.)
In 1999, the four-day music festival Woodstock ’99 began; the event would ultimately be marred by destruction and violence by concertgoers amid lax security and stifling heat.
In 2011, Anders Breivik (AHN’-durs BRAY’-vihk), a self-described “militant nationalist,” killed 69 people at a youth hostel on a Norwegian island after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo, killing eight others. worst violence in the country. since the Second World War.
In 2015, Dylann Roof, the young man accused of murdering nine black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury on 33 charges, including hate crimes that made him eligible for the death penalty. (Roof would become the first person to be sentenced to death for a federal hate crime; he is on death row in a federal prison in Indiana.)
In 2022, Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted of contempt for ignoring a congressional subpoena from the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (Bannon is currently serving his four-month sentence in federal prison.)
Today’s Birthdays:
- Author Tom Robbins is 92.
- Actor Terence Stamp is 86.
- Singer George Clinton is 83.
- Actor-singer Bobby Sherman is 81.
- Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, is 81.
- Film writer-director Paul Schrader is 78.
- Actor Danny Glover is 78.
- Singer Mireille Mathieu is 78.
- Actor-comedian-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-comedian David Spade is 60.
- Actor Rhys Ifans (rees EYE’-fanz) is 57.
- Actor/singer Jaime Camil is 51.
- Singer Rufus Wainwright is 51.
- Actor Franka Potente (poh-TEN’-tay) is 50.
- Actor Selena Gomez is 32.
- NFL running back Ezekiel Elliott is 29.
- Britain’s Prince George of Wales is 11.
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