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TODAY IN
HISTORY
Today is Thursday, July 23,
the 205th day of 2020. There
are 161 days left in the year.
of World War I.
In 1948, American pioneer
filmmaker D.W. Griffith died in
Los Angeles at age 73.
In 1967, five days of deadly
rioting erupted in Detroit as
an early morning police raid
on an unlicensed bar resulted
in a confrontation with local
residents that escalated into
violence that spread into
other parts of the city; 43
people, mostly Blacks, were
killed.
In 1982, actor Vic Morrow
and two child actors, 7-year-
old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-
old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were
killed when a helicopter
crashed on top of them
during filming of a Vietnam
War scene for "Twilight Zone:
The Movie."(Director John
Landis and four associates
were later acquitted of
manslaughter charges.)
In 1983, an Air Canada
Boeing 767 ran out of fuel
while flying from Montreal
clergy members and others
in the Boston Archdiocese
probably had sexually abused
more than 1,000 people over
a period of six decades.
In 2006, Tiger Woods
became the first player since
Tom Watson in 1982-83 to
win consecutive British Open
titles.
In 2011, singer Amy
Winehouse, 27, was found
dead in her London home
from accidental alcohol
poisoning.
In 2017, a tractor trailer
was found in a Walmart
parking lot in San Antonio,
Texas, crammed with dozens
of immigrants; ten died and
many more were treated at a
hospital for dehydration and
heat stroke. (The driver, James
Bradley Jr., was sentenced to
life in prison after pleading
guilty to transporting the
immigrants resulting in
death.)
a body in the water at the
base of the dam. Upon
officers located
Partly sunny and
humid
Sunshine and
patchy clouds
Humid with
sunshine and
some clouds
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
joined
women
continue
able to glide the jetliner to
a safe emergency landing in
Gimli, Manitoba. (The near-
disaster occurred because the
fuel had been erroneously
measured in pounds instead
of kilograms at a time when
Canada was converting to the
metric system.)
In 1997, the search for
Andrew Cunanan, the
suspected killer of designer
Gianni Versace and others,
ended as police found his
body on a houseboat in
Miami Beach, an apparent
suicide.
In 1999, space shuttle
Columbia blasted off with the
world's most powerful X-ray
telescope and Eileen Collins,
the first woman to command
a U.S. space flight.
In 2003, a new audiotape
purported to be from
toppled dictator Saddam
Hussein called on Iraqis to
resist the U.S. occupation.
Massachusetts' attorney
general issued a report saying
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TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT
IN HISTORY:
On July 23,1829, William
Austin Burt received a patent
for his "typographer," a
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ON THIS DATE:
In 1885, Ulysses S. Grant,
the 18th president of the
United States, died in Mount
McGregor, New York, at age
63.
In 1914, Austria-Hungary
presented a list of demands
to Serbia following the killing
f Archduke Franz Ferdinand
by a Serb assassin; Serbia's
refusal to agree to the entire
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due to the coronavirus notify the county.
pandemic. Days later,
Cooke County Judge Jason
Brinkley declared outdoor
gatherings of more than
10 people and less than
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in the county as long as Gainesville expecting it’s in the city limits, supplies for K-12
they adhered to safety more than 100 people “can permission would need classrooms in Gainesville
protocols recommended email us or the county and to come from the city of will be accepted during
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The Bell County
Sheriff’s Department
said Wednesday the
Friday investigation is ongoing.
TONIGHT
of State Health Services, needs it,” he said. Saturday’s planned
Those planning larger As of Wednesday protest will be the first
gatherings are required to morning, July 22, neither since the Gainesville City
the city manager’s office Council
City Manager Barry nor the Gainesville Police voted last week to relocate
Sullivan previously Department had been the more than 100-year-old
said the city and others contacted about a protest, Confederate statue that
across the county would City Secretary Diana stands in Leonard Park,
be following the same Alcala said. 1000 W. California St. The
Cooke County Judge vote was unanimous.
in Jason Brinkley said since
expecting it’s in the city limits, supplies
Texas (AP) of Pvt. Mejhor Morta, 26, the sheriff’s office said.
U.S. Army
stationed at the same that. ]
Texas base. “(Vanessa) felt so unsafe say the 20-year-old was
Three congresswomen that going to them to make bludgeoned to death,
a dozen any kind of report that she
other women on Capitol shared with her family and released by
to woman dead,” a rallying is staggering. It horrifies
for cry in Mexico against the me,” Brownley said. “And
changes in the way the murder of women. it is a very deep scar in
military handles sexual Guillen’s family has said our military’s history that
abuse and harassment she was sexually harassed needs to change, and it
following the death of by the fellow solider needs to change now.”
a soldier investigators suspected of killing her, Guillen’s body was
believe was killed and but the Army has said found in Bell County,
dismembered by someone there is no evidence of about 20 miles east of Aguilar
Army officials recently
announced that it will
begin a review of the
command climate at Fort
or assaulted, contact with him during Hood following calls by
press conference calling noting that the numbers the investigation on July 1. members of Congress and
for action included the could be higher. Cecily Aguilar, a community activists.
(AP) Mexican flag and the
Members of Congress hashtag #NiUnaMas,
for meaning “not one more that this statistic alone, it Hood has been arrested
in connection to Guillen’s
death. She is facing three
counts of conspiracy to
tamper with evidence. She
has pleaded not guilty to
all charges.
Robinson
to
of
A criminal complaint
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Hill to demand systemic her friends, any kind of Attorney’s Office for the the League
shifts in military culture, report, she knew that she Western District of Texas Latin American Citizens
Many held signs bearing may receive harassment identified the soldier offered a $50,000 reward
the name Spc. Vanessa or retaliation,” Rep. Sylvia suspected in Guillen’s for information leading to
Guillen, whose remains Garcia, D-Texas, said slaying as Aaron David Guillen’s whereabouts,
were found earlier this during a news conference. Robinson, of Calumet
month following her Rep. Julia Brownley, City, Illinois. Authorities
disappearance in April D-Calif., said that at said Robinson, 20, pulled
from Fort Hood, a U.S. least one in four women a gun and shot himself as
Army base in Texas, veterans has been sexually police were trying to make
Some signs held at a harassed or assaulted, <
just after midnight after
said to be consistent with a U.S. Army officials fishermen in a boat located
Wednesday that a Fort drowning, the sheriff’s announced Morta’s death
Hood soldier found dead department said in a news Tuesday. It marked at least
last week near the Texas release. the third time in a month
Army base where he was Justice of the Peace that a Fort Hood soldier’s arrival,
stationed is believed to Garland Potvin has body has been discovered, Morta’s body,
have drowned, according ordered a full autopsy but there is no indication
to the Bell County Sheriff’s report, but results are the deaths are related.
Department. pending. They will be Sheriff’s deputies were
A preliminary autopsy released by the medical called to Stillhouse Hollow
shows the cause of death examiner’s office in Dallas, Lake Dam on
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Einselen, Sarah. Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 231, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 2020, newspaper, July 23, 2020; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1324786/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.