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Today in History: July 22, First solo around-the-world flight

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Today in History: July 22, First solo around-the-world flight

Today is Monday, July 22, the 204th day of 2024. There are 162 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On July 22, 1933, Aviator Wiley Post landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.

Also on this date:

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie “Manhattan Melodrama.”

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