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JULY 22
1934:The law finally catches up to notorious bank robber John Dillinger,
despite his undergoing plastic surgery to change his appearance. The
FBI's first "Public Enemy No. 1" is gunned downed by federal agents as
he leaves the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, where he had just seen the
gangster film Manhattan Melodrama with girlfriend Polly Hamilton and landlady Anna Sage.
1933: Soprano Caterina Jarboro performs in Aida with
the Chicago Opera Company at the Hippodrome in New York, as the first
African American prima donna in an American opera company.
1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court by adding up to six new justices is rejected by the U.S. Senate in a 70-20 vote.
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