July 22
Today is the 203rd day of 2017, there are 162 days left in the year.
1587 - A second English colony, also fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances, was established on Roanoke Island off present-day North Carolina.
1796 - Cleveland, Ohio was founded by Gen. Moses Cleveland.
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln presented a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet.
1916 - Ten people were killed when a suitcase bomb went off during San Francisco's Preparedness Day parade; two anti-war labor radicals, Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, were jailed but eventually released amid doubts about their guilt.
1933 - Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world. The trip took him seven days, 18 1/2 hours.
1934 - Notorious bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death outside Chicago's Biograph Theater by federal agents.
1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme, to add more justices to the Supreme Court, was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
1942 - The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1942 - Gasoline rationing began in the United States on the Atlantic seaboard.
1943 - American forces led by Gen. George Patton captured Palermo, Sicily during World War II.
1975 - Congress restored Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.
1981 - Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca was sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting Pope John Paul II. (He served 19 years.)
1983 - Samantha Smith and her parents returned home to Manchester, Maine, after completing a whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union.
1991 - Police in Milwaukee arrested serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to the murders of 17 men and boys.
1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Nedellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
1994 - O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent to the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1995 - Susan Smith was convicted by a jury in Union, South Carolina of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. (She is currently serving life in prison.)
1998 - Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia.
2003 - Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight in Mosul, Iraq.
2004 - The Sept. 11 commission issued a report saying America's leaders failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats before the 9/11 attacks.
2006 - Israeli tanks, bulldozers, and armored personnel carriers knocked down a fence and barreled over the Lebanese border as forces seized the village of Maroun al-Ras from Hezbollah.
2013 - Prince George of Cambridge was born, the first child of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine (Kate Middleton), Duchess of Cambridge. George is third in line to the British throne.
2016 - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced her pick of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine to be her running mate.
Birthdays
19 - Madison Pettis (actress)
21 - Skyler Gisondo (actor)
22 - Ezekiel Elliott (football player)
25 - Selena Gomez (singer)
28 - Keegan Allen (actor)
32 - Blake Harrison (actor)
36 - Fandango (professional wrestler)
39 - AJ Cook (actress)
44 - Jaime Camil (actor)
52 - Shawn Michaels (professional wrestler)
53 - David Spade (actor)
53 - John Leguizamo (actor)
62 - Willem Dafoe (actor)
71 - Danny Glover (actor)
77 - Alex Trebek (game show host)
83 - Louise Fletcher
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Today in Sports History - July 22
1909 - At Huntington Avenue Grounds, Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) stole three bases in one inning.
1912 - The Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden come to a close.
1923 - Walter Johnson becomes the first pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
1926 - Cincinnati Reds' Curt Walker ties record of two triples in an inning.
1926 - At Mitchell Field in New York, Babe Ruth caught a ball that had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet.
1936 - Philadelphia Phillies' John Moore hits three consecutive home runs.
1955 - The Philadelphia Phillies win their 11th straight game, their longest win-streak since 1892.
1962 - Chicago White Sox player Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles).
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1964 - Steve Ballesteros wins the Britsh Golf Open.
1969 - For the first time in Major League Baseball history, the All-star game is postponed by rain.
1990 - Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France.
1990 - Nick Faldo of England wins the British Open Golf championship.
1991 - Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room. Tyson was later convicted of rape and served 3 years in prison.
2005 - The NHL's board of governors voted 30-0 to pass the cap-based collective bargaining agreement that the players' association had approved the previous day. The deal ended the 310-day lockout that wiped out the 2004-05 season.
2006 - Canada defeats USA 15-11 in the 2006 World Lacrosse Championship. This marks only the second time the USA had not won the gold medal, and only the second time Canada had won the gold.
2012 - Ernie Els won his fourth major championship in an astonishing finish, rallying to beat Adam Scott in the British Open when the Australian bogeyed the last four holes.
Today is the 203rd day of 2017, there are 162 days left in the year.
1587 - A second English colony, also fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances, was established on Roanoke Island off present-day North Carolina.
1796 - Cleveland, Ohio was founded by Gen. Moses Cleveland.
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln presented a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet.
1916 - Ten people were killed when a suitcase bomb went off during San Francisco's Preparedness Day parade; two anti-war labor radicals, Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, were jailed but eventually released amid doubts about their guilt.
1933 - Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world. The trip took him seven days, 18 1/2 hours.
1934 - Notorious bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death outside Chicago's Biograph Theater by federal agents.
1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme, to add more justices to the Supreme Court, was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
1942 - The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1942 - Gasoline rationing began in the United States on the Atlantic seaboard.
1943 - American forces led by Gen. George Patton captured Palermo, Sicily during World War II.
1975 - Congress restored Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.
1981 - Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca was sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting Pope John Paul II. (He served 19 years.)
1983 - Samantha Smith and her parents returned home to Manchester, Maine, after completing a whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union.
1991 - Police in Milwaukee arrested serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to the murders of 17 men and boys.
1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Nedellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
1994 - O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent to the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1995 - Susan Smith was convicted by a jury in Union, South Carolina of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. (She is currently serving life in prison.)
1998 - Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia.
2003 - Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight in Mosul, Iraq.
2004 - The Sept. 11 commission issued a report saying America's leaders failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats before the 9/11 attacks.
2006 - Israeli tanks, bulldozers, and armored personnel carriers knocked down a fence and barreled over the Lebanese border as forces seized the village of Maroun al-Ras from Hezbollah.
2013 - Prince George of Cambridge was born, the first child of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine (Kate Middleton), Duchess of Cambridge. George is third in line to the British throne.
2016 - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced her pick of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine to be her running mate.
Birthdays
19 - Madison Pettis (actress)
21 - Skyler Gisondo (actor)
22 - Ezekiel Elliott (football player)
25 - Selena Gomez (singer)
28 - Keegan Allen (actor)
32 - Blake Harrison (actor)
36 - Fandango (professional wrestler)
39 - AJ Cook (actress)
44 - Jaime Camil (actor)
52 - Shawn Michaels (professional wrestler)
53 - David Spade (actor)
53 - John Leguizamo (actor)
62 - Willem Dafoe (actor)
71 - Danny Glover (actor)
77 - Alex Trebek (game show host)
83 - Louise Fletcher
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Today in Sports History - July 22
1909 - At Huntington Avenue Grounds, Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) stole three bases in one inning.
1912 - The Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden come to a close.
1923 - Walter Johnson becomes the first pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
1926 - Cincinnati Reds' Curt Walker ties record of two triples in an inning.
1926 - At Mitchell Field in New York, Babe Ruth caught a ball that had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet.
1936 - Philadelphia Phillies' John Moore hits three consecutive home runs.
1955 - The Philadelphia Phillies win their 11th straight game, their longest win-streak since 1892.
1962 - Chicago White Sox player Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles).
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1964 - Steve Ballesteros wins the Britsh Golf Open.
1969 - For the first time in Major League Baseball history, the All-star game is postponed by rain.
1990 - Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France.
1990 - Nick Faldo of England wins the British Open Golf championship.
1991 - Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room. Tyson was later convicted of rape and served 3 years in prison.
2005 - The NHL's board of governors voted 30-0 to pass the cap-based collective bargaining agreement that the players' association had approved the previous day. The deal ended the 310-day lockout that wiped out the 2004-05 season.
2006 - Canada defeats USA 15-11 in the 2006 World Lacrosse Championship. This marks only the second time the USA had not won the gold medal, and only the second time Canada had won the gold.
2012 - Ernie Els won his fourth major championship in an astonishing finish, rallying to beat Adam Scott in the British Open when the Australian bogeyed the last four holes.
