At present is Tuesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2025. There are 162 days left within the yr.
At present in historical past:
On July 22, 1933, Aviator Wiley Submit landed at Floyd Bennett Area in New York Metropolis, finishing the primary solo flight all over the world in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
Additionally on this date:
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln introduced to his Cupboard a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
In 1934, financial institution robber John Dillinger was shot to loss of life by federal brokers exterior Chicago’s Biograph Theater, the place he had simply seen the Clark Gable film “Manhattan Melodrama.”
In 1937, the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal so as to add extra justices to the Supreme Court docket.
In 1942, the Nazis started transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka focus camp.
In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, throughout World Conflict II.
In 1975, the Home of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to revive the American citizenship of Accomplice Gen. Robert E. Lee.
In 1991, police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 males and boys.
In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxurious jail close to Medellin (meh-deh-YEEN’). (He was slain by safety forces in December 1993.)
In 2011, Anders Breivik (AHN’-durs BRAY’-vihk), a self-described “militant nationalist,” massacred 69 individuals at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in close by Oslo that killed eight others within the nation’s worst violence since World Conflict II.
In 2015, a federal grand jury indictment charged Dylann Roof, the younger man accused of killing 9 Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, with 33 counts together with hate crimes that made him eligible for the loss of life penalty. (Roof would change into the primary particular person sentenced to loss of life for a federal hate crime; he’s on loss of life row at a federal jail in Indiana.)
In 2022, Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted of contempt fees for defying a congressional subpoena from the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 revolt on the U.S. Capitol. (Bannon is at the moment serving his four-month sentence in federal jail.)
At present’s Birthdays:
- Actor Terence Stamp is 87.
- Singer George Clinton is 84.
- Actor-singer Bobby Sherman is 82.
- Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, is 82.
- Film writer-director Paul Schrader is 79.
- Actor Danny Glover is 79.
- Singer Mireille Mathieu is 79.
- Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 78.
- Rock singer Don Henley is 78.
- Writer S.E. Hinton is 77.
- Movie composer Alan Menken is 76.
- Jazz musician Al Di Meola (mee-OH’-lah) is 71.
- Actor Willem Dafoe is 70.
- Actor John Leguizamo is 65.
- R&B singer Keith Sweat is 64.
- Folks singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Women) is 62.
- Actor-comedian David Spade is 61.
- Actor Rhys Ifans (rees EYE’-fanz) is 58.
- Actor/singer Jaime Camil is 52.
- Singer Rufus Wainwright is 52. Actor Franka Potente (poh-TEN’-tay) is 51.
- Actor Selena Gomez is 33.
- NFL working again Ezekiel Elliott is 30.
