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Today in history: July 22
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A Soyuz space capsule blasted off for the International Space Station, docking with the orbiting outpost nearly six hours later, and more events that happened on this day in history.
1862: The Emancipation Proclamation
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
AP1933: Wiley Post
In 1933, American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world as he returned to New York’s Floyd Bennett Field after traveling for 7 days, 18 and 3/4 hours.
AP1934: John Dillinger
In 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.”
AP1942: Treblinka Concentration Camp
In 1942, the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
AP1946: Jerusalem
In 1946, the militant Zionist group Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people.
AP1957: The Frisbee
In 1957, Walter “Fred” Morrison applied for a patent for a “flying toy” which became known as the Frisbee.
AP1967: Carl Sandburg
In 1967, American author, historian and poet Carl Sandburg died at his North Carolina home at age 89.
AP1975: Robert E. Lee
In 1975, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
AP1991: Jeffrey Dahmer
In 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).
Milwaukee County Sheriff's Dept.1992: Pablo Escobar
In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin (meh-deh-YEEN’). (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
AP2010: Fresno, California
Ten years ago: Six people were killed when a Greyhound bus crashed into an overturned SUV on a highway in Fresno, California. (Authorities later said the SUV driver, who died in the collision, was drunk.)
AP2010: Hugo Chavez
Ten years ago: President Hugo Chavez severed Venezuela’s diplomatic relations with neighboring Colombia over claims he was harboring leftist guerrillas.
AP2011: Norway
In 2011, Anders Breivik (AHN’-durs BRAY’-vihk), 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.
AP2015: Soyuz Space Capsule
Five years ago: A Soyuz space capsule blasted off for the International Space Station, docking with the orbiting outpost nearly six hours later.
AP2019: Equifax
One year ago: Equifax agreed to pay at least $700 million to settle lawsuits over a 2017 data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million Americans.
AP2019: Lil Nas X
One year ago: “Old Town Road,” by Lil Nas X, remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a 16th week, tying a record set by Mariah Carey and Luis Fonsi.
Invision2019: Tyler Skaggs
One year ago: Teammates, family and friends gathered at a Catholic church in Santa Monica, California, to mourn Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who had been found dead in his Texas hotel room on July 1.
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