Updated July 22, 2012, 2:28 pm
On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents in Chicago.
On July 22, 1849, Emma Lazarus, the American poet best known for her words inscribed at the Statue of Liberty, was born. Following her death on November 19, 1887, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1587 A second English colony, also fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances, was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. 1796 The city of Cleveland was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland. 1933 American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 1/2 hours. 1937 The Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court. 1943 American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily. 1981 Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca was sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting Pope John Paul II. (He served 19 years.) 1991 Police in Milwaukee arrested serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys. 1994 O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent to the slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. 1995 Susan Smith was convicted by a jury in Union, S.C., of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. (She is serving life in prison.) 1998 Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia. 2003 Saddam Hussein’s sons Odai and Qusai were killed when U.S. forces stormed a villa 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. Current Birthdays
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Actor Danny Glover turns 66 years old today.
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Actor Willem Dafoe turns 57 years old today.
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1923 Bob Dole, Former Senate majority leader, presidential candidate, turns 89 1928 Orson Bean, Actor, turns 84 1932 Oscar de la Renta, Fashion designer, turns 80 1934 Louise Fletcher, Actress (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”), turns 78 1938 Terence Stamp, Actor, turns 74 1940 Alex Trebek, Game show host (“Jeopardy”), turns 72 1941 George Clinton, Funk singer, turns 71 1943 Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. senator, R-Texas, turns 69 1943 Bobby Sherman, Actor, singer, turns 69 1947 Albert Brooks, Actor, director, turns 65 1947 Don Henley, Rock singer (The Eagles), turns 65 1954 Al Di Meola, Jazz guitarist, turns 58 1963 Rob Estes, Actor, turns 49 1963 Emily Saliers, Folk musician, singer (Indigo Girls), turns 49 1964 John Leguizamo, Actor, turns 48 1964 David Spade, Actor, comedian (“Saturday Night Live”), turns 48 1973 Rufus Wainwright, Rock singer, turns 39 1974 Franka Potente, Actress, turns 38 1978 A.J. Cook, Actress, turns 34 1992 Selena Gomez, Actress, turns 20
Historic Birthdays
Emma Lazarus 7/22/1849 – 11/19/1887 American poet and essayist.Go to obituary »
67 Jacques-Germain Soufflot 7/22/1713 – 8/29/1780
French architect61 Gregor Mendel 7/22/1822 – 1/6/1884
Austrian botanist72 Thomas Pendergast 7/22/1872 – 1/26/1945
American politician84 Edward Hopper 7/22/1882 – 5/15/1967
American painter88 Gustav Hertz 7/22/1887 – 10/30/1975
German Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1925)64 Ely Culbertson 7/22/1891 – 12/27/1955
American Contract Bridge expert and peace activist72 Oskar Maria Graf 7/22/1894 – 6/28/1967
German novelist and poet78 Alexander Calder 7/22/1898 – 11/11/1976
American sculptor44 Stephen Vincent Benet 7/22/1898 – 3/13/1943
American poet, novelist and short story writer73 Charles Weidman 7/22/1901 – 7/15/1975
American dancer and choreographer66 Amy Vanderbilt 7/22/1908 – 12/27/1974
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