Friday, July 22, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

Manhattan MelodramaImage via Wikipedia
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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