This day in history
Issue date: 7/23/08 Section: News
1587 An English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.
1796 Cleveland was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
1934 A man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.
1937 The Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
1942 The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1975 The House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
1998 President Clinton, with Republican lawmakers at his side, signed a bill designed to mold the Internal Revenue Service into a friendlier, fairer tax collector.
2003 Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed when U.S. forces stormed a villa in Mosul, Iraq.
2007 Cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 74.
- Compiled by The Associated Press
1796 Cleveland was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
1934 A man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.
1937 The Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
1942 The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1975 The House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
1998 President Clinton, with Republican lawmakers at his side, signed a bill designed to mold the Internal Revenue Service into a friendlier, fairer tax collector.
2003 Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed when U.S. forces stormed a villa in Mosul, Iraq.
2007 Cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 74.
- Compiled by The Associated Press
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