TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT July 22, 1942

The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp. Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard. ALSO ON THIS DATE

1587

An English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.

1796

Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleaveland.

1862

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

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.

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.”

1937

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

1946

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

1967

American author, historian and poet Carl Sandburg died at his North Carolina home at age 89.