Today is Tuesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2014. There are 162 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 22, 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."
On this date:
In 1587, an English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances was established on Roanoke
Island off North Carolina.
In 1796, Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleaveland.
In 1893, Wellesley College professor Katharine Lee Bates visited the summit of Pikes Peak, where she was
inspired to write the original version of her poem "America the Beautiful."
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.
In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.
In 1944, the Bretton Woods Monetary Conference concluded in New Hampshire with an agreement to establish
the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
In 1946, Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people.
In 1975, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
In 2011, Anders Breivik massacred 69 people at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb
in nearby Oslo that killed eight others.