Today in History: July 22, First solo around-the-world flight
In contemporary times is Tuesday July the rd day of There are days left in the year In contemporary times in history On July Aviator Wiley Post landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York City completing the first solo flight around the world in days hours and minutes Also on this date In President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation Related Articles Beloved ballpark therapy bunny Alex The Great has died after complications from cancer Gen Xers mourn drowning death of actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner known as Theo on The Cosby Show Judge gives ex-officer nearly years in Breonna Taylor raid rebuffs DOJ call for no prison time Ecuadorian drug lord Fito pleads not guilty after being extradited to New York Appeals court orders new trial for man convicted in Etan Patz development In 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 the U S Senate rejected President Franklin D Roosevelt s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court In the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp In American forces led by Gen George S Patton captured Palermo Sicily during World War II In the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen Robert E Lee In police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer who later confessed to murdering men and boys In Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin meh-deh-YEEN He was slain by assurance forces in December In Anders Breivik AHN -durs BRAY -vihk a self-described militant nationalist massacred 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 In a federal grand jury indictment charged Dylann Roof the young man accused of killing nine Black church members in Charleston South Carolina with 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 Steve Bannon a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump was convicted of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee exploring the Jan insurrection at the U S Capitol Bannon is at this moment serving his four-month sentence in federal prison Currently s Birthdays Actor Terence Stamp is Singer George Clinton is Actor-singer Bobby Sherman is Former Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison R-Texas is Movie writer-director Paul Schrader is Actor Danny Glover is Singer Mireille Mathieu is Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is Rock singer Don Henley is Author S E Hinton is Film composer Alan Menken is Jazz musician Al Di Meola mee-OH -lah is Actor Willem Dafoe is Actor John Leguizamo is R B singer Keith Sweat is Folk singer Emily Saliers Indigo Girls is Actor-comedian David Spade is Actor Rhys Ifans rees EYE -fanz is Actor singer Jaime Camil is Singer Rufus Wainwright is Actor Franka Potente poh-TEN -tay is Actor Selena Gomez is NFL running back Ezekiel Elliott is
