At present is Monday, July 22, the 204th day of 2024. There are 162 days left within the 12 months.
At present’s Spotlight in Historical past:
On July 22, 1933, Aviator Wiley Publish landed at Floyd Bennett Area in New York Metropolis, finishing the primary solo flight all over the world in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
Additionally on this date:
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln introduced to his Cupboard a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
In 1934, financial institution robber John Dillinger was shot to dying by federal brokers outdoors Chicago’s Biograph Theater, the place he had simply seen the Clark Gable film “Manhattan Melodrama.”
In 1937, the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal so as to add extra justices to the Supreme Court docket.
In 1942, the Nazis started transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka focus camp.
In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, throughout World Conflict II.
In 1975, the Home of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to revive the American citizenship of Accomplice Gen. Robert E. Lee.
In 1991, police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 males and boys.
In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxurious jail close to Medellin (meh-deh-YEEN’). (He was slain by safety forces in December 1993.)
In 1999, the Woodstock ’99 four-day music pageant started; the occasion would in the end be marred by destruction and violence by concertgoers amid lax safety and stifling warmth.
In 2011, Anders Breivik (AHN’-durs BRAY’-vihk), a self-described “militant nationalist,” massacred 69 folks at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in close by Oslo that killed eight others within the nation’s worst violence since World Conflict II.
In 2015, a federal grand jury indictment charged Dylann Roof, the younger man accused of killing 9 Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, with 33 counts together with hate crimes that made him eligible for the dying penalty. (Roof would develop into the primary particular person sentenced to dying for a federal hate crime; he’s on dying row at a federal jail in Indiana.)
In 2022, Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted of contempt costs for defying a congressional subpoena from the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 revolt on the U.S. Capitol. (Bannon is at present serving his four-month sentence in federal jail.)
At present’s Birthdays:
- Creator 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.
- Creator S.E. Hinton is 76.
- Movie 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.
- Folks singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Women) 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 working again Ezekiel Elliott is 29.
- Britain’s Prince George of Wales is 11.
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