TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS MONDAY, JULY 22, the 203rd day of 2019. There are 162 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1991, police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys. Dahmer was beaten to death by a fellow prison inmate.
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 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. Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.
In 1946, the militant Zionist group Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people.
In 1975, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. He was slain by security forces in December 1993.
In 2005, a labor agreement ended an NHL lockout that canceled the previous hockey season.
In 2008, actress Estelle Getty died in Los Angeles at age 84.
In 2011, Anders Breivik, a selfdescribed “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.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:
Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., is 96. Actor-comedian Orson Bean is 91. Author Tom Robbins is 87. Actress Louise Fletcher is 85. Rhythm-andblues singer Chuck Jackson is 82. Actor Terence Stamp is 81. Game show host Alex Trebek is 79. Singer George Clinton is 78. Actor-singer Bobby Sherman and former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, are 76. Movie writer-director Paul Schrader, actor Danny Glover and singer Mireille Mathieu are 73. Actor-comediandirector Albert Brooks and rock singer Don Henley are 72. Movie composer Alan Menken is 70. Singer-actress Lonette McKee is 66. Jazz musician Al Di Meola is 65. Actor Willem Dafoe is 64. Rhythm-and-blues singer Keith Sweat is 58. Actress Joanna Going, actor Rob Estes and folk singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) are 56. Actor John Leguizamo and actor-comedian David Spade are 55. Actor Patrick Labyorteaux is 54. Rock musician Pat Badger, actress Irene Bedard and actor Rhys Ifans are 52. Actress Diana Maria Riva is 50. Actor Colin Ferguson and retired NFL player Keyshawn Johnson are 47. Actor/singer Jaime Camil, rock musician Daniel Jones and singer Rufus Wainwright are 46. Actress Franka Potente is 45. Actress Parisa Fitz-Henley is 42. Actress A.J. Cook is 41. Actor Keegan Allen is 32. Actress Camila Banus is 29. Actress Selena Gomez is 27. Britain’s Prince George of Cambridge is six.