ON THIS DAY 7 22 2023

This Day in History: July 22

Featured Event

1933





American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world; he covered 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes.

Featured Biography

John Dillinger
American gangster




John Dillinger, in full John Herbert Dillinger, (born June 22, 1903, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.—died July 22, 1934, Chicago, Illinois), American criminal who was perhaps the most famous bank robber in U.S. history, known for a series of robberies and escapes from June 1933 to July 1934.
Dillinger, who was born in Indianapolis, had a difficult childhood. When he was three years old, his mother died, and he later had a strained relationship with his stepmother. Often in trouble, he eventually dropped out of school. The family subsequently settled on a farm in nearby Mooresville, but the relocation had little effect on Dillinger’s behaviour. In 1923 he joined the navy and served on the USS Utah before deserting after only a few months. Dillinger then returned to Indiana. In September 1924 he was caught in the foiled holdup of a Mooresville grocer, and he served much of the next decade in Indiana State Prison. While incarcerated, he learned the craft of bank robbery from fellow inmates. Upon parole on May 10, 1933, he turned his knowledge to profit, robbing (with one to four confederates) five Indiana and Ohio banks in four months and gaining his first notoriety as a daring, sharply dressed gunman.


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