TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SATURDAY, JULY 22, the 203rd day of 2023. There are 162 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On July 22, 1937, the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
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 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 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.)
In 2015, a federal grand jury indictment charged Dylann Roof, the young man accused of killing nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, with 33 counts including hate crimes that made him eligible for the death penalty. (Roof would become the first person sentenced to death for a federal hate crime; he is on death row at a federal prison in Indiana.) In 2020, California surpassed New York as the state with the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases. Twitter said it would crack down on accounts and content related to the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Author Tom Robbins is 91. Actor Terence Stamp is 85. Singer George Clinton is 82. Actorsinger Bobby Sherman is 80. Actor Danny Glover is 77. Actor-comediandirector Albert Brooks and rock singer Don Henley are 76. Movie composer Alan Menken is 74. Actor Willem Dafoe is 68. Actor John Leguizamo is 63. Actorcomedian David Spade is 59. Actor Rhys Ifans is 56. Singer Rufus Wainwright is 50. Actor Franka Potente is 49. Actor Selena Gomez is 31. Britain’s Prince George of Cambridge is 10.