By The Associated Press

              - Today is Thursday, July 22, the 203rd day of 1999. There are 162
                days left in the year.

              - On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was
                shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.
              - 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 Cleaveland.
              - In 1812 English troops 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 1937 the Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add
                more justices to the Supreme Court.
              - In 1942 gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along
                the Atlantic seaboard.
              - 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 House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to
                restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
              - In 1991 police in Milwaukee arrested serial killer Jeffrey L.
                Dahmer, who was later murdered in prison.

              - Ten years ago nearly 200,000 Palestinian children returned to
                classrooms in the West Bank after the Israeli army lifted an order
                that had kept their schools closed during the Palestinian uprising.
              - Five years ago O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent to the slaying of his
                ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
              - One year 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.
 

              *Happy Birthday*
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              - Sen. William V. Roth Jr. (R-Del.) is 78.
              - Former Sen. Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) is 76.
              - Singer Margaret Whiting is 75.
              - Actor-comedian Orson Bean is 71.
              - Actor Perry Lopez is 68.
              - Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta is 67.
              - Actress Louise Fletcher is 65.
              - Director John Korty is 63.
              - Rhythm-and-blues singer Chuck Jackson is 62.
              - Actor Terence Stamp is 60.
              - Game show host Alex Trebek is 59.
              - Singer George Clinton is 59.
              - Actor-singer Bobby Sherman is 56.
              - Singer Estelle Bennett (The Ronettes) is 55.
              - Movie writer-director Paul Schrader is 53.
              - Actor Danny Glover is 52.
              - Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 52.
              - Rock singer Don Henley is 52.
              - Actor Willem Dafoe is 44.
              - Rhythm-and-blues singer Keith Sweat is 38.
              - Actress Joanna Going is 36.
              - Actor Rob Estes is 36.
              - Folk singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) is 36.
              - Actor John Leguizamo is 35.
              - Actor-comedian David Spade is 35.
              - Actor Patrick Labyorteaux is 34.
              - Actress Irene Bedard is 32.
              - Actor Rhys Ifans is 32.