7/22 Today in History
Published 3:00 am Saturday, July 22, 2023
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie “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. Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
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In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.
In 1967, American author, historian and poet Carl Sandburg died at his North Carolina home at age 89.
In 1975, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
In 1991, police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys (Dahmer ended up being beaten to death by a fellow prison inmate).
In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin (he was slain by security forces in December 1993).
In 2011, Anders Breivik, a self-described “militant nationalist,” massacred 69 people at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight others in the nation’s worst violence since World War II.
In 2015, a federal grand jury indictment charged Dylann Roof, the young man accused of killing nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, with 33 counts including hate crimes that made him eligible for the death penalty. (Roof would become the first person sentenced to death for a federal hate crime; he is on death row at a federal prison in Indiana.)
In 2020, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, was among those tear-gassed by U.S. government agents as he appeared outside a federal courthouse during raucous protests; Ted Wheeler and hundreds of others were objecting to the presence of federal police sent by President Donald Trump. California surpassed New York as the state with the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases. Twitter said it would crack down on accounts and content related to the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon.
Today’s birthdays: Author Tom Robbins is 91. Actor Terence Stamp is 85. Singer George Clinton is 82. Actor-singer Bobby Sherman is 80. Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, is 80. Movie writer-director Paul Schrader is 77. Actor Danny Glover is 77. Singer Mireille Mathieu is 77. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 76. Rock singer Don Henley is 76. Movie composer Alan Menken is 74. Singer-actor Lonette McKee is 70. Jazz musician Al Di Meola is 69. Actor Willem Dafoe is 68. Actor John Leguizamo is 63. R&B singer Keith Sweat is 62. Actor Joanna Going is 60. Actor Rob Estes is 60. Folk singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) is 60. Actor-comedian David Spade is 59. Actor Patrick Labyorteaux is 58. Rock musician Pat Badger is 56. Actor Irene Bedard is 56. Actor Rhys Ifans is 56. Actor Diana Maria Riva is 54. Actor Colin Ferguson is 51. Actor/singer Jaime Camil is 50. Singer Rufus Wainwright is 50. Actor Franka Potente is 49. Actor Parisa Fitz-Henley is 46. Actor A.J. Cook is 45. Actor Keegan Allen is 36. Actor Camila Banus is 33. Actor Selena Gomez is 31. Britain’s Prince George of Cambridge is 10.