DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Saturday, July 9, the 190th day of 2022. There are 175 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1776: The Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in New York.
1918: A train collision in Nashville, Tennessee, killed 101 people. The Distinguished Service Cross was established by an Act of Congress.
1937: A fire at 20th Century Fox’s film storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, destroyed most of the studio’s silent films.
1943: During World War II, the Allies launched Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily.
1944: During World War II, American forces secured Saipan as the last Japanese defenses fell.
1947: The engagement of Britain’s
Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.
1982: Pan Am Flight 759, a Boeing 727, crashed in Kenner, Louisiana, shortly after takeoff from New Orleans International Airport, killing all 145 people aboard and eight people on the ground.
2004: A Senate Intelligence Committee report concluded the CIA had provided unfounded assessments of the threat posed by Iraq that the Bush administration had relied on to justify going to war.
2010: The largest U.s.-russia spy swap since the Cold War was completed on a remote stretch of Vienna airport tarmac as planes from New York and Moscow arrived within minutes of each other with 10 Russian sleeper agents and four prisoners accused by Russia of spying for the West.
2015: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley relegated the Confederate flag to the state’s “relic room” after the legislature passed a measure removing the flag from the grounds of the Statehouse in the wake of the slaughter of nine African-americans at a church Bible study.
2018: President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a solidly conservative, politically connected federal appeals court judge, for the Supreme Court to fill the seat left vacant by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. (Kavanaugh would be confirmed in October after a contentious nomination fight.)
2020: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio used a roller to help paint “Black Lives Matter” in front of President Donald Trump’s namesake Manhattan tower. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a New York prosecutor’s demands for Trump’s tax records.
Singer-actor Ed Ames of The Ames Brothers is 95. Actor Richard Roundtree is 80. Singer Dee Dee Kenniebrew
of The Crystals is 77. Actor Chris Cooper is 71. TV personality-turned-musician John Tesh is 70. Country singer David Ball is 69. Business leader Kevin O’leary (“Shark Tank”) is 68. Singer Debbie Sledge of Sister Sledge is 68. Actor Jimmy Smits is 67. Actor Tom Hanks is 66. Singer Marc Almond of Soft Cell is 65. Actor Kelly Mcgillis is 65. Singer Jim Kerr of Simple Minds is 63. Singer Courtney Love is 58. Bassist Frank Bello of Anthrax is 57. Actor David O’hara (“The District”) is 57. Actor Pamela Adlon
(“Louie”) is 56. Actor Scott Grimes
(“ER,” “Party of Five”) is 51.