July 22
1587 - A second English colony, also fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances, was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.
1796 - The city of 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 trek in seven days, 18 1/2 hours.
1934 - Bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.
1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court, in what many dubbed a "court packing" scheme.
1942 - During World War II, the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1942 - In the United States, gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
1943 - American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily during World War II.
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. (Dahmer was convicted and later beaten to death by a fellow inmate while serving his prison sentence.)
1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
1994 - O.J. Simpson pleaded not guilty to the slaying of his ex-wife Nicole Brown-Simpson 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 currently serving life in prison.)
1998 - Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel and Saudi Arabia.
2003 - Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight near 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.
2013 - Britain's Prince William his wife Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, welcomed the birth of their son Prince George, who became third in line of succession to the British crown.
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.)
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.
2020 - Twitter said it would crack down on accounts and content related to the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon.
2021 - In papers filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, Mississippi's Republican attorney general called on the court to overturn its landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, and let states decide whether to regulate abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb. (The court would agree to overturn Roe v. Wade in its ruling in the Mississippi case in June 2022.)
Birthdays
24 - Madison Pettis (actress)
27 - Ezekiel Elliott (football player)
28 - Jaz Sinclair (actress)
30 - Selena Gomez (actress)
32 - Camila Banus (actress)
35 - Keegan Allen (actor)
44 - A.J. Cook (actress)
45 - Parisa Fitz-Henley (actress)
49 - Daniel Jones (musician)
50 - Colin Ferguson (actor)
53 - Diana Maria Riva (actress)
55 - Irene Bedard (actress)
57 - Shawn Michaels (professional wrestler)
58 - David Spade (actor/comedian)
59 - Emily Saliers (singer)
59 - Rob Estes (actor)
59 - Joanna Going (actress)
61 - Keith Sweat (singer)
62 - John Leguizamo (actor)
67 - Willem Dafoe (actor)
75 - Don Henley (singer)
75 - Robert Brooks (actor/comedian)
76 - Danny Glover (actor)
79 - Bobby Sherman (actor/singer)
81 - George Clinton (singer)
84 - Terence Stamp (actor)
85 - Chuck Jackson (singer)
88 - Louise Fletcher (actress)
90 - Tom Robbins (author)
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Today in Sports History - July 22
1909 - Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers steals three bases in one inning.
1923 - Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators becomes the first pitcher in MLB history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
1926 - At Mitchell Field in New York, Babe Ruth caught a ball that had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet.
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1967 - The Atlanta Braves use a MLB record five different pitchers in the ninth inning to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-4.
1990 - American Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France.
1990 - Phil Mickelson wins the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship.
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.
2012 - Ernie Els won his fourth major championship in an astonishing finish, rallying to beat Adam Scott in the British Open when the Australian bogeyed the last four holes.
2019 - The Dallas Cowboys are named the world's most valuable sports franchise by Forbes, with an estimated value of $5 billion. The New York Yankees were rated second at $4.6 billion and soccer club Real Madrid was third at $4.2 billion.
1587 - A second English colony, also fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances, was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.
1796 - The city of 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 trek in seven days, 18 1/2 hours.
1934 - Bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.
1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court, in what many dubbed a "court packing" scheme.
1942 - During World War II, the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1942 - In the United States, gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
1943 - American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily during World War II.
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. (Dahmer was convicted and later beaten to death by a fellow inmate while serving his prison sentence.)
1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
1994 - O.J. Simpson pleaded not guilty to the slaying of his ex-wife Nicole Brown-Simpson 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 currently serving life in prison.)
1998 - Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel and Saudi Arabia.
2003 - Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight near 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.
2013 - Britain's Prince William his wife Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, welcomed the birth of their son Prince George, who became third in line of succession to the British crown.
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.)
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.
2020 - Twitter said it would crack down on accounts and content related to the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon.
2021 - In papers filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, Mississippi's Republican attorney general called on the court to overturn its landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, and let states decide whether to regulate abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb. (The court would agree to overturn Roe v. Wade in its ruling in the Mississippi case in June 2022.)
Birthdays
24 - Madison Pettis (actress)
27 - Ezekiel Elliott (football player)
28 - Jaz Sinclair (actress)
30 - Selena Gomez (actress)
32 - Camila Banus (actress)
35 - Keegan Allen (actor)
44 - A.J. Cook (actress)
45 - Parisa Fitz-Henley (actress)
49 - Daniel Jones (musician)
50 - Colin Ferguson (actor)
53 - Diana Maria Riva (actress)
55 - Irene Bedard (actress)
57 - Shawn Michaels (professional wrestler)
58 - David Spade (actor/comedian)
59 - Emily Saliers (singer)
59 - Rob Estes (actor)
59 - Joanna Going (actress)
61 - Keith Sweat (singer)
62 - John Leguizamo (actor)
67 - Willem Dafoe (actor)
75 - Don Henley (singer)
75 - Robert Brooks (actor/comedian)
76 - Danny Glover (actor)
79 - Bobby Sherman (actor/singer)
81 - George Clinton (singer)
84 - Terence Stamp (actor)
85 - Chuck Jackson (singer)
88 - Louise Fletcher (actress)
90 - Tom Robbins (author)
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Today in Sports History - July 22
1909 - Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers steals three bases in one inning.
1923 - Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators becomes the first pitcher in MLB history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
1926 - At Mitchell Field in New York, Babe Ruth caught a ball that had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet.
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1967 - The Atlanta Braves use a MLB record five different pitchers in the ninth inning to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-4.
1990 - American Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France.
1990 - Phil Mickelson wins the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship.
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.
2012 - Ernie Els won his fourth major championship in an astonishing finish, rallying to beat Adam Scott in the British Open when the Australian bogeyed the last four holes.
2019 - The Dallas Cowboys are named the world's most valuable sports franchise by Forbes, with an estimated value of $5 billion. The New York Yankees were rated second at $4.6 billion and soccer club Real Madrid was third at $4.2 billion.
