Monday, July 22, 1996

"Why is this my business? Because our moral mission leads us to wherever there are broken-hearted people,"

-- Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, calling for better conditions for Indonesian workers at the Batak Protestant Church.


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Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Illinois, reports to the federal medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, to begin serving a 17-month sentence for mail fraud.

On Tuesday, July 23, a two-day conference on the destruction of chemical weapons by the U.S. and Russia begins.

On Wednesday, July 24, "The Fantastiks," the world's longest-running musical, celebrates its 15,000th performance with the creation of a Fantastiks Time Capsule.

On Thursday, July 25, Ireland's parliament holds a special session to enact legislation against organized crime.

On Friday, July 26, actor Robert Downey Jr. will appear in court to face charges possession of cocaine, heroin and a concealed weapon.

In 1587, a second English colony -- also fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances -- was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.

In 1796, Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by Gen. Moses Cleveland.

In 1812, English troops under the Duke of Wellington defeated the French at the Battle of Salamanca in Spain.

In 1916, a bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, killing 10 people.

In 1933, American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 3/4 hours.

In 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.

In 1937, the Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily.

In 1946, Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people.

In 1975, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

In 1986, for the first time in a half-century, the House of Representatives impeached a federal official. Judge Harry E. Claiborne was later convicted by the Senate of tax evasion and bringing disrepute on the federal courts.

In 1991, President Bush returned from a nine-day trip that included the G-7 summit in London.

In 1991, police in Milwaukee arrested serial killer Jeffrey L. Dahmer, who was later murdered in prison.

In 1991, Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room. (Tyson, convicted of rape, served three years in prison).

In 1995, Susan Smith was convicted by a jury in Union, South Carolina, of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. (She was later sentenced to life in prison.)

With the TWA Flight 800 explosion and the recent Valujet crash, you've heard much about the National Transportation Safety Board. So who is the NTSB and what are they all about? Check out their homepage.

Today is Martyrdom of Hazrat in Afghanistan.

Guam observes Liberation Day Holiday today.

St. Eustatius of the Netherlands Antilles celebrates Carnival today.

Today is a public holiday in Swaziland.

Union of Myanmar observes Full Moon of Waso today.


Sources: Associated Press,
Chase's Calendar of Events 1996, J.P. Morgan


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