UPI Almanac for Saturday, July 22, 2017

Today is Saturday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2017 with 162 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning star is Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include poet Emma Lazarus in 1849; painter Edward Hopper in 1882; U.S. political family matriarch Rose Kennedy in 1890; sculptor Alexander Calder in 1898; Robert Dole, longtime U.S. senator/1996 GOP presidential nominee, in 1923 (age 93); fashion designer Oscar de la Renta in 1932; actor Louise Fletcher in 1934 (age 83); actor Terence Stamp in 1938 (age 79); Jeopardy! game show host Alex Trebek in 1940 (age 77); actor/singer Bobby Sherman in 1943 (age 74); actor Danny Glover in 1946 (age 71); comedian/actor Albert Brooks in 1947 (age 70); musician Don Henley in 1947 (age 70); composer Alan Menken in 1949 (age 68); actor Willem Dafoe in 1955 (age 62); R&B singer Keith Sweat in 1961 (age 56); comedian John Leguizamo in 1964 (age 53) comedian David Spade in 1964 (age 53); actor Colin Ferguson in 1972 (age 45); actor Jamie Camil in 1973 (age 44); singer Rufus Wainwright in 1973 (age 44); actor Keegan Allen in 1989 (age 28); actor/singer Selena Gomez in 1992 (age 25); Britain's Prince George of Cambridge in 2013 (age 4).

On this day in history:

In 1793, Canadian explorer Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific.

In 1864, in the first battle of Atlanta, Confederate troops under Gen. John Hood were defeated by Union forces under Gen. William Sherman.

In 1916, a bomb hidden in a suitcase exploded during a Preparedness Day parade on San Francisco's Market Street, killing 10 people and wounding 40. The parade was in support of the United States' entrance into World War I.

In 1933, Wiley Post completed his first solo flight around the world. It took him 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.

In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger died in a hail of bullets from federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.

In 1991, police arrest serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, finding human body parts stored in his refrigerator and freezer, and others decomposing in chemicals in a 57-gallon drum. Dahmer confessed to 17 murders in all.

In 1994, a U.S. federal judge ordered The Citadel, a state-financed military college in Charleston, S.C., to open its doors to women.

In 2003, Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusai were killed by U.S. forces in a 6-hour firefight at a house in Mosul in northern Iraq.

In 2008, jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and four other members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were indicted by a grand jury in Texas on charges of child sexual assault. Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison.

In 2009, millions of people across Asia sought vantage points to view a rare 6 1/2-minute solar eclipse, longest of the 21st century.

In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik, a 33-year-old Norwegian right-wing extremist, boasted he was responsible for the massacre of 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity. He denied criminal guilt at his Oslo trial, however, saying he was trying to stop a Muslim takeover.

In 2013, Prince William's wife, Kate, gave birth to a son, third in line to the British throne. The baby was named George Alexander Louis (Prince George of Cambridge).

In 2014, Joko Widodo was officially declared the winner of the recent Indonesian presidential election, carrying 53 percent of the vote.

A thought for the day: "Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time." -- Rabindranath Tagore