TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SATURDAY, JULY 23, the 204th day of 2022. There are 161 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel while flying from Montreal to Edmonton; the pilots were able to glide the jetliner to a safe emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba. (The neardisaster occurred because the fuel had been erroneously measured in pounds instead of kilograms at a time when Canada was converting to the metric system.) In 1958, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II named the first four women to peerage in the House of Lords. In 1982, actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for “Twilight Zone: The Movie.” (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter charges.) In 1990, President George H.W. Bush announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed the retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1996, at the Atlanta Olympics, Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault, despite torn ligaments in her left ankle, as the U.S. women gymnasts clinched their firstever Olympic team gold medal. In 1997, the search for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, ended as police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach, an apparent suicide. In 1999, space shuttle Columbia blasted off with the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope and Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a U.S. space flight. In 2003, Massachusetts’ attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese had probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades. In 2006, Tiger Woods became the first player since Tom Watson in 1982-83 to win consecutive British Open titles. In 2011, singer Amy Winehouse, 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning. In 2019, Boris Johnson won the contest to lead Britain’s governing Conservative Party, putting him in line to become the country’s prime minister the following day. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is 86. Rock singer David Essex is 75. Singersongwriter-politician John Hall is 74. Actor Belinda Montgomery and rock musician Blair Thornton (Bachman Turner Overdrive) are 72. Actor Woody Harrelson and rock musician Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) are 61. Actor Eriq Lasalle is 60. Rock musician Yuval Gabay is 59. Rock musician Slash is 57. Model-actor Stephanie Seymour is 54. Actor Charisma Carpenter and R&B singer Sam Watters are 52. Country singer Alison Krauss and rock musician Chad Gracey (Live) are 51. Actor-comedian Marlon Wayans is 50. Country singer Shannon Brown, actor Kathryn Hahn, retired MLB All-Star Nomar Garciaparra and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky are 49. R&B singer Michelle Williams is 42. Actor Paul Wesley is 40. Actor Krysta Rodriguez is 38. Actor Daniel Radcliffe is 33. Country musician Neil Perry is 32. Country singer Danielle Bradbery (TV: “The Voice”) is 26.