JULY 22ND

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Today is Tuesday, July 22, the 204th day of 2008. There are 162 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 22, 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 3/4 hours.
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 was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
• In 1908, American etiquette expert Amy Vanderbilt was born in New York City.
• 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 Supreme Court.
• In 1942, the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
• In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.
• 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 1983, Samantha Smith and her parents returned home to Manchester, Maine, after completing a whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union.

Ten years ago:

• The Senate Armed Services Committee rejected, on a 9-9 vote, Daryl Jones' bid to become Air Force secretary.
• President Clinton, with Republican lawmakers at his side, signed a bill designed to mold the Internal Revenue Service into a friendlier, fairer tax collector.

Five years ago:

• Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed when U.S. forces stormed a villa in Mosul, Iraq.
• Months after her prisoner-of-war ordeal, Pfc. Jessica Lynch returned home to a hero's welcome in Elizabeth, W.Va.

One year ago:

• A bus carrying Polish Catholic pilgrims from a holy site in the French Alps plunged off a steep mountain road, killing 26 people.
• Padraig Harrington survived a calamitous finish in regulation and a tense putt for bogey on the final hole of a playoff to win the British Open.
• Cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 74.

Today's Birthdays:

• Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., is 85.
• Singer Margaret Whiting is 84.
• Actor-comedian Orson Bean is 80.
• Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta is 76.
• Actress Louise Fletcher is 74.
• Movie director John Korty is 72.
• Rhythm-and-blues singer Chuck Jackson is 71.
• Actor Terence Stamp is 69.
• Game show host Alex Trebek is 68.
• Singer George Clinton is 67.
• Actor-singer Bobby Sherman is 65.
• Singer Estelle Bennett (The Ronettes) is 64.
• Movie writer-director Paul Schrader is 62.
• Actor Danny Glover is 61.
• Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 61.
• Rock singer Don Henley is 61.
• Movie composer Alan Menken is 59.
• Actor Willem Dafoe is 53.
• Rhythm-and-blues singer Keith Sweat is 47.
• Actress Joanna Going is 45.
• Actor Rob Estes is 45.
• Folk singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) is 45.
• Actor John Leguizamo is 44.
• Actor-comedian David Spade is 44.
• Actor Patrick Labyorteaux is 43.
• Rock musician Pat Badger is 41.
• Actress Irene Bedard is 41.
• Actor Rhys Ifans is 41.
• Actor Colin Ferguson is 36.
• Rock musician Daniel Jones is 35.
• Singer Rufus Wainwright is 35.
• Actress Franka Potente is 34.
• Actress A.J. Cook is 30.

Thought for Today:

"Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."
Helen Rowland, American writer and humorist (1875-1950).

"Let's all be careful out there!"