Today is July 22. On this date in:
1587
An English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.
1862
President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
1916
Ten people were killed when a suitcase bomb went off during San Francisco’s Preparedness Day parade.
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.”
1937
The U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
1942
The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1943
American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.
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).
1996
“The Daily Show” hosted by Craig Kilborn premiered on Comedy Central.
2005
A labor agreement ended an NHL lockout that canceled the previous hockey season.
2011
Anders Breivik, a self-described “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.
2013
Prince George, the son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Prince William and Kate Middleton), was born.
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