Today’s highlight in history
On July 22, 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.)
On this date In 1862,
President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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.
In 1992,
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in 1993.)
In 2005,
a labor agreement ended an NHL lockout that canceled the previous hockey season.
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.
Ten years ago:
President Barack Obama told a prime-time news conference that Cambridge, Mass., police had acted “stupidly” in the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., and that despite racial progress, blacks and Hispanics were still singled out unfairly for arrest.
Five years ago:
Johann Breyer, an 89-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect, died at a Philadelphia hospital hours before a U.S. ruling that he should be extradited to Germany.