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, completing the trek in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
1934 - Bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death outside Chicago's Biograph Theater by federal agents.
1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to "pack the court" by proposing to expand the number of justices on 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.
1975 - Congress posthumously restored Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.
1991 - Police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to killing 17 men and boys.
1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
1999 - The Woodstock '99 four-day music festival began; the event would ultimately be marred by destruction and violence by concert-goers amid lax security and stifling heat.
2003 - Iraqi dicator Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight.
2011 - Anders Breivik, a self-descried "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 - Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton welcomed their first child, Prince George of Cambridge, who is now second in line to the British throne.
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 currently on death row at a federal prison in Indiana.)
2022 - Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted of contempt of charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (Bannon is currently serving his four-month sentence in federal prison.)
Birthdays
21 - Audrey Hope (actress)
23 - Alisha Newton (actress)
26 - Madison Pettis (actress)
29 - Ezekiel Elliott (football player)
30 - Jaz Sinclair (actress)
32 - Selena Gomez (actress)
46 - AJ Cook (actress)
57 - Rhys Ifans (actor)
59 - Shawn Michaels (professional wrestler)
60 - David Spade (actor/comedian)
61 - Emily Saliers (singer)
63 - Keith Sweat (singer)
64 - John Leguizamo (actor)
69 - Willem Dafoe (actor)
77 - Don Henley (singer)
77 - Albert Brooks (actor/comedian/director)
78 - Mireille Mathieu (singer)
78 - Danny Glover (actor)
81 - Bobby Sherman (actor/singer)
83 - George Clinton (singer)
86 - Terence Stamp (actor)
92 - Tom Robbins (author)
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Today in Sports History - July 22
1923 - Walter Johnson becomes the first pitcher in MLB history to reach the 3,000 career strikeout threshold.
1926 - At Mitchell Field in New York, Babe Ruth caught a ball that had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet.
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1967 - The Atlanta Braves use a MLB record five pitchers in one inning in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
1990 - Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France.
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.
1997 - 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 - Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird plays in her record 500th WNBA game. (She would finish her career at 508 games.)
2019 - The Dallas Cowboys are named the most valuable professional sports franchise in the world, valued at $5 billion by Forbes; the New York Yankees are deemed the second-most valuable at $4.6 billion and Real Madrid third at $4.2 billion.
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, completing the trek in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
1934 - Bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death outside Chicago's Biograph Theater by federal agents.
1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to "pack the court" by proposing to expand the number of justices on 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.
1975 - Congress posthumously restored Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.
1991 - Police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to killing 17 men and boys.
1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
1999 - The Woodstock '99 four-day music festival began; the event would ultimately be marred by destruction and violence by concert-goers amid lax security and stifling heat.
2003 - Iraqi dicator Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight.
2011 - Anders Breivik, a self-descried "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 - Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton welcomed their first child, Prince George of Cambridge, who is now second in line to the British throne.
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 currently on death row at a federal prison in Indiana.)
2022 - Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted of contempt of charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (Bannon is currently serving his four-month sentence in federal prison.)
Birthdays
21 - Audrey Hope (actress)
23 - Alisha Newton (actress)
26 - Madison Pettis (actress)
29 - Ezekiel Elliott (football player)
30 - Jaz Sinclair (actress)
32 - Selena Gomez (actress)
46 - AJ Cook (actress)
57 - Rhys Ifans (actor)
59 - Shawn Michaels (professional wrestler)
60 - David Spade (actor/comedian)
61 - Emily Saliers (singer)
63 - Keith Sweat (singer)
64 - John Leguizamo (actor)
69 - Willem Dafoe (actor)
77 - Don Henley (singer)
77 - Albert Brooks (actor/comedian/director)
78 - Mireille Mathieu (singer)
78 - Danny Glover (actor)
81 - Bobby Sherman (actor/singer)
83 - George Clinton (singer)
86 - Terence Stamp (actor)
92 - Tom Robbins (author)
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Today in Sports History - July 22
1923 - Walter Johnson becomes the first pitcher in MLB history to reach the 3,000 career strikeout threshold.
1926 - At Mitchell Field in New York, Babe Ruth caught a ball that had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet.
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1967 - The Atlanta Braves use a MLB record five pitchers in one inning in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
1990 - Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France.
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.
1997 - 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 - Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird plays in her record 500th WNBA game. (She would finish her career at 508 games.)
2019 - The Dallas Cowboys are named the most valuable professional sports franchise in the world, valued at $5 billion by Forbes; the New York Yankees are deemed the second-most valuable at $4.6 billion and Real Madrid third at $4.2 billion.
