TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, JULY 22,

the 203rd day of 2017. There are 162 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY:

On this date in 1942, the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.

In 1587, an English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

In 1916, 10 people were killed when a suitcase bomb went off during San Francisco’s Preparedness Day parade. Two anti-war labor radicals, Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, were jailed but eventually released amid doubts about their guilt.

In 1937, the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

In 1946, the militant Zionist group Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people.

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.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., is 94. Actor-comedian Orson Bean is 89. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chuck Jackson is 80. Game show host Alex Trebek is 77. Singer George Clinton is 76. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks and rock singer Don Henley are 70. Movie composer Alan Menken is 68. Actor Willem Dafoe is 62. Actor John Leguizamo and actor-comedian David Spade are 53.Actress Diana Maria Riva is 48. Actress Franka Potente is 43. Actress Selena Gomez is 25. Britain’s Prince George of Cambridge is 4.