July 22
Today is the 203rd day of 2021, there are 162 days left in the year.
1587 - A second English colony, also fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances, was established on Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina.
1796 - Cleveland, Ohio was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
1933 - Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world, completing the feat in seven days, 18 1/2 hours.
1934 - Bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death outside Chicago's Biograph Theater by federal agents.
1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
1942 - The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1943 - American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily during World War II.
1946 - The militant Zionist group Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people.
1975 - Congress restored Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.
1981 - Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca was sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting Pope John Paul II. (He served 19 years.)
1991 - Police in Milwaukee arrested serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys.
1994 - O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent to the slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1995 - Susan Smith was convicted by a jury in Union, South Carolina of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. (She is serving life in prison.)
1998 - Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia.
2003 - Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight in Mosul, Iraq.
2004 - The Sept. 11 commission issued a report saying America's leaders failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats before the 9/11 attacks.
2006 - Israeli tanks, bulldozers and armored personnel carriers knocked down a fence and barreled over the Lebanese border as forces seized the village of Maroun al-Ras from Hezbollah.
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.
2011 - A jury in Cleveland convicted Anthony Sowell of killing 11 poor, drug-addicted women whose remains were found in his home and backyard. (Sowell was later sentenced to death; he died in prison in February 2021.)
2011 - President Barack Obama formally signed off on ending the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
2013 - Prince George of Cambridge is born, the first child of Prince William and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. George is third in line to the British throne behind his grandfather, Prince Charles, and his father.
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.)
2016 - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced her selection of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate.
2020 - Twitter said it would crack down on accounts and content related to the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon.
Birthdays
20 - Alisha Newton (actress)
23 - Madison Pettis (actress)
26 - Ezekiel Elliott (football player)
27 - Jaz Sinclair (actress)
29 - Selena Gomez (actress)
31 - Camila Banus (actress)
34 - Keegan Allen (actor)
40 - Fandango (professional wrestler)
43 - AJ Cook (actress)
44 - Parisa Fitz-Henley (actress)
48 - Daniel Jones (musician)
49 - Colin Ferguson (actor)
52 - Diana Maria Riva (actress)
54 - Rhys Ifans (actor)
54 - Irene Bedard (actress)
56 - Patrick Labyorteaux (actor)
56 - Shawn Michaels (professional wrestler)
57 - David Spade (actor/comedian)
58 - Rob Estes (actor)
58 - Joanna Going (actress)
60 - Keith Sweat (singer)
61 - John Leguizamo (actor)
66 - Willem Dafoe (actor)
68 - Lonette McKee (singer/actress)
74 - Don Henley (singer)
74 - Albert Brooks (actor/comedian/director)
75 - Danny Glover (actor)
78 - Bobby Sherman (actor/singer)
80 - George Clinton (singer)
83 - Terence Stamp (actor)
84 - Chuck Jackson (singer)
87 - Louise Fletcher (actress)
89 - Tom Robbins (author)
98 - Bob Dole (politician)
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Today in Sports History - July 22
1909 - At Huntington Avenue Grounds, Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) stole three bases in one inning.
1923 - Walter Johnson became the first pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1963 - Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in the first round of their rematch in Las Vegas to retain the world heavyweight title.
1990 - Phil Mickelson wins the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship.
1990 - Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France.
1991 - Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room. Tyson was later convicted of rape and served 3 years in prison.
1997 - Greg Maddux of the Atlanta Braves throws a complete game on just 76 pitches in a 4-1 win over the Chicago Cubs.
2005 - The NHL's board of governors voted 30-0 to pass the cap-based collective bargaining agreement that the players' association had approved the previous day. The deal ended the 310-day lockout that wiped out the 2004-05 season.
2019 - The NFL's Dallas Cowboys are named the most valuable sports franchise in the world, with a value of $5 billion, according to Forbes. The New York Yankees ranked second at $4.6 billion and Real Madrid was third at $4.2 billion.
Today is the 203rd day of 2021, there are 162 days left in the year.
1587 - A second English colony, also fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances, was established on Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina.
1796 - Cleveland, Ohio was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
1933 - Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world, completing the feat in seven days, 18 1/2 hours.
1934 - Bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death outside Chicago's Biograph Theater by federal agents.
1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
1942 - The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1943 - American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily during World War II.
1946 - The militant Zionist group Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people.
1975 - Congress restored Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.
1981 - Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca was sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting Pope John Paul II. (He served 19 years.)
1991 - Police in Milwaukee arrested serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys.
1994 - O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent to the slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1995 - Susan Smith was convicted by a jury in Union, South Carolina of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. (She is serving life in prison.)
1998 - Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia.
2003 - Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight in Mosul, Iraq.
2004 - The Sept. 11 commission issued a report saying America's leaders failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats before the 9/11 attacks.
2006 - Israeli tanks, bulldozers and armored personnel carriers knocked down a fence and barreled over the Lebanese border as forces seized the village of Maroun al-Ras from Hezbollah.
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.
2011 - A jury in Cleveland convicted Anthony Sowell of killing 11 poor, drug-addicted women whose remains were found in his home and backyard. (Sowell was later sentenced to death; he died in prison in February 2021.)
2011 - President Barack Obama formally signed off on ending the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
2013 - Prince George of Cambridge is born, the first child of Prince William and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. George is third in line to the British throne behind his grandfather, Prince Charles, and his father.
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.)
2016 - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced her selection of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate.
2020 - Twitter said it would crack down on accounts and content related to the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon.
Birthdays
20 - Alisha Newton (actress)
23 - Madison Pettis (actress)
26 - Ezekiel Elliott (football player)
27 - Jaz Sinclair (actress)
29 - Selena Gomez (actress)
31 - Camila Banus (actress)
34 - Keegan Allen (actor)
40 - Fandango (professional wrestler)
43 - AJ Cook (actress)
44 - Parisa Fitz-Henley (actress)
48 - Daniel Jones (musician)
49 - Colin Ferguson (actor)
52 - Diana Maria Riva (actress)
54 - Rhys Ifans (actor)
54 - Irene Bedard (actress)
56 - Patrick Labyorteaux (actor)
56 - Shawn Michaels (professional wrestler)
57 - David Spade (actor/comedian)
58 - Rob Estes (actor)
58 - Joanna Going (actress)
60 - Keith Sweat (singer)
61 - John Leguizamo (actor)
66 - Willem Dafoe (actor)
68 - Lonette McKee (singer/actress)
74 - Don Henley (singer)
74 - Albert Brooks (actor/comedian/director)
75 - Danny Glover (actor)
78 - Bobby Sherman (actor/singer)
80 - George Clinton (singer)
83 - Terence Stamp (actor)
84 - Chuck Jackson (singer)
87 - Louise Fletcher (actress)
89 - Tom Robbins (author)
98 - Bob Dole (politician)
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Today in Sports History - July 22
1909 - At Huntington Avenue Grounds, Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) stole three bases in one inning.
1923 - Walter Johnson became the first pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1963 - Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in the first round of their rematch in Las Vegas to retain the world heavyweight title.
1990 - Phil Mickelson wins the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship.
1990 - Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France.
1991 - Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room. Tyson was later convicted of rape and served 3 years in prison.
1997 - Greg Maddux of the Atlanta Braves throws a complete game on just 76 pitches in a 4-1 win over the Chicago Cubs.
2005 - The NHL's board of governors voted 30-0 to pass the cap-based collective bargaining agreement that the players' association had approved the previous day. The deal ended the 310-day lockout that wiped out the 2004-05 season.
2019 - The NFL's Dallas Cowboys are named the most valuable sports franchise in the world, with a value of $5 billion, according to Forbes. The New York Yankees ranked second at $4.6 billion and Real Madrid was third at $4.2 billion.
