TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Saturday, July 23, the 204th day of 2022. There are 161 days left in the year. On this date in:

1958: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II named the first four women to peerage in the House of Lords.

1967: Five days of deadly rioting erupted in Detroit as an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation with local residents, escalating into violence that spread into other parts of the city; 43 people, most of them Black, were killed.

1982: Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6year-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.)

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 near-disaster occurred because the fuel had been erroneously measured in pounds instead of kilograms at a time when Canada was converting to the metric system.) 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.

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 first-ever Olympic team gold medal. 1999: Space shuttle Columbia blasted off with the world’s most powerful Xray telescope and Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a U.S. space flight.