Sunday,  July 22, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 008 • 26 of 27 •  Other Editions

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Today in History
The Associated Press

• Today is Sunday, July 22, the 204th day of 2012. There are 162 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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• 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 (correct).
• In 1812, English-led troops defeated the French at the Battle of Salamanca in Spain during the Peninsular War.
• 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 1916, a bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, killing 10 people.
• 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."
• In 1937, the Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
• In 1942, the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp. Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
• In 1946, Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people.
• In 1962, Mariner 1, NASA's first attempt at sending a spacecraft to Venus, was destroyed shortly after launch because of faulty steering.
• In 1975, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
• 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.)

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