TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SUNDAY, JULY 22, the 203rd day of 2018. There are 162 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY: On this date 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.
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 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 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.
In 1946, the militant Zionist group Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people.
In 1963, Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in the first round of their rematch in Las Vegas to retain the world heavyweight title. In 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).
In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., is 95. Actor-comedian Orson Bean is 90. Author Tom Robbins is 86. Actor Terence Stamp is 80. Game show host Alex Trebek is
78. Singer George Clinton is 77. Movie writer-director Paul Schrader, actor Danny Glover and singer Mireille Mathieu are 72. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks and rock singer Don Henley are 71. Jazz musician Al Di Meola is 64. Actor Willem Dafoe is 63. Rhythm-and-blues singer Keith Sweat is 57. Actress Joanna Going, actor Rob Estes and folk singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) are 55. Actor John Leguizamo and actor-comedian David Spade are 54. Actress Diana Maria Riva is
49. Actor Colin Ferguson and retired NFL player Keyshawn Johnson are 46. Actor/ singer Jaime Camil, rock musician Daniel Jones and singer Rufus Wainwright are
45. Actress Franka Potente is 44. Actress Camila Banus is 28. Actress Selena Gomez is 26. Britain’s Prince George of Cambridge is five.