July 22
1796 - The city of Cleveland, Ohio was founded by Gen. Moses Cleveland.
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
1933 - Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world.
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 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme was rejected by the U.S. Senate, an attempt to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
1942 - The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1942 - Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
1943 - American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.
1975 - Congress restored Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.
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).
1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
2003 - Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight.
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 of Cambridge is born, now second in line of succession to the British throne and the first child of Prince William and his wife Catherine.
2015 - A federal grand jury indictment charged Dylann Roof, the young man accused of killing nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, with 33 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.)
2022 - Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Birthdays
25 - Madison Pettis (actress)
28 - Ezekiel Elliott (football player)
29 - Jaz Sinclair (actress)
33 - Camila Banus (actress)
36 - Keegan Allen (actor)
45 - A.J. Cook (actress)
46 - Parisa Fitz-Henley (actress)
49 - Franka Potente (actress)
51 - Colin Ferguson (actor)
54 - Diana Maria Riva (actress)
56 - Irene Bedard (actor)
58 - Shawn Michaels (professional wrestler)
59 - David Spade (actor/comedian)
60 - Rob Estes (actor)
60 - Joanna Going (actress)
62 - Keith Sweat (singer)
63 - John Leguizamo (actor)
68 - Willem Dafoe (actor)
76 - Don Henley (singer)
76 - Albert Brooks (actor)
77 - Mireille Mathieu (singer)
77 - Danny Glover (actor)
80 - Bobby Sherman (actor/singer)
82 - George Clinton (singer)
85 - Terrence Stamp (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 22
1909 - Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) stole three bases in one inning.
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1990 - Greg LeMond win his third Tour de France.
1997 - Pitcher Greg Maddux throws a complete game on just 76 pitches.
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.
2018 - For the first time in nine years, Tiger Woods took the lead in the final round of a major golf tournament before finishing in a tie for sixth at the British Open; the event was won by Francesco Molinari in the first-ever major golf championship for an Italian.
2018 - Seattle basketball guard Sue Bird plays in her record 500th WNBA game (she would finish her career with 508 games).
2019 - Forbes names the Dallas Cowboys the world's most valuable professional sports franchise, valued at $5 billion; the New York Yankees were second at $4.6 billion and Real Madrid third at $4.2 billion.
2022 - World Wrestling Entertainment impresario Vince McMahon announced his retirement amid an investigation into alleged misconduct involving the flamboyant businessman and showman who transformed a small wrestling company into a global entertainment business. (McMahon would return to the WWE board six months later.)
1796 - The city of Cleveland, Ohio was founded by Gen. Moses Cleveland.
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
1933 - Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world.
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 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme was rejected by the U.S. Senate, an attempt to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
1942 - The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1942 - Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
1943 - American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.
1975 - Congress restored Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.
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).
1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
2003 - Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight.
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 of Cambridge is born, now second in line of succession to the British throne and the first child of Prince William and his wife Catherine.
2015 - A federal grand jury indictment charged Dylann Roof, the young man accused of killing nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, with 33 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.)
2022 - Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Birthdays
25 - Madison Pettis (actress)
28 - Ezekiel Elliott (football player)
29 - Jaz Sinclair (actress)
33 - Camila Banus (actress)
36 - Keegan Allen (actor)
45 - A.J. Cook (actress)
46 - Parisa Fitz-Henley (actress)
49 - Franka Potente (actress)
51 - Colin Ferguson (actor)
54 - Diana Maria Riva (actress)
56 - Irene Bedard (actor)
58 - Shawn Michaels (professional wrestler)
59 - David Spade (actor/comedian)
60 - Rob Estes (actor)
60 - Joanna Going (actress)
62 - Keith Sweat (singer)
63 - John Leguizamo (actor)
68 - Willem Dafoe (actor)
76 - Don Henley (singer)
76 - Albert Brooks (actor)
77 - Mireille Mathieu (singer)
77 - Danny Glover (actor)
80 - Bobby Sherman (actor/singer)
82 - George Clinton (singer)
85 - Terrence Stamp (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 22
1909 - Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) stole three bases in one inning.
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1990 - Greg LeMond win his third Tour de France.
1997 - Pitcher Greg Maddux throws a complete game on just 76 pitches.
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.
2018 - For the first time in nine years, Tiger Woods took the lead in the final round of a major golf tournament before finishing in a tie for sixth at the British Open; the event was won by Francesco Molinari in the first-ever major golf championship for an Italian.
2018 - Seattle basketball guard Sue Bird plays in her record 500th WNBA game (she would finish her career with 508 games).
2019 - Forbes names the Dallas Cowboys the world's most valuable professional sports franchise, valued at $5 billion; the New York Yankees were second at $4.6 billion and Real Madrid third at $4.2 billion.
2022 - World Wrestling Entertainment impresario Vince McMahon announced his retirement amid an investigation into alleged misconduct involving the flamboyant businessman and showman who transformed a small wrestling company into a global entertainment business. (McMahon would return to the WWE board six months later.)
