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August 22, first America’s Cup trophy – JS
Today is Thursday, August 22, the 235th day of 2024. There are 131 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On August 22, 1851, the schooner America defeated more than a dozen British ships off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America’s Cup.
Also on this date:
In 1791, the Haitian Revolution began when the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue rose up against French colonists.
In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese control until the end of World War II.
In 1922, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was shot dead, apparently by members of the Irish Republican Army who opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed.
In 1965, a fourteen-minute brawl between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers ensued after Giants pitcher Juan Marichal stabbed Dodgers catcher John Roseboro in the head with a baseball bat. (Marichal and Roseboro would later reconcile and become lifelong friends.)
In 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, to begin the first papal visit to South America.
In 1972, John Wojtowicz (WAHT’-uh-witz) and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees hostage at a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn, New York, during a botched robbery; the siege, which ended with Wojtowicz’s arrest and Naturile’s murder by the FBI, inspired the 1975 film “Dog Day Afternoon.”
Co-founded the Black Panthers in 1989 Huey P Newton was shot dead in Oakland, California.
In 1992, on the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho, an FBI sniper killed Vicki Weaver, the wife of a white separatist. Randy Weaver.
In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed Social Security legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and required recipients to work.
In 2003, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended for refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse rotunda.
In 2007, a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all fourteen American soldiers on board.
Today’s Birthdays:
- Author Annie Proulx (proo) is 89.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 85.
- Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 83.
- Writer-producer David Chase is 79.
- CBS journalist Steve Kroft is 79.
- International Swimming Hall of Famer Diana Nyad is 75.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Molitor is 68.
- Rock guitarist Vernon Reid is 66.
- Country singer Collin Raye is 64.
- Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) is 63.
- Singer Tori Amos is 61.
- International Tennis Hall of Famer Mats Wilander (VEE’-luhn-dur) is 60.
- Rapper GZA (JIHZ’-ah)/The genius is 58.
- Actor Ty Burrell is 57.
- Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is 54.
- Actor Rick Yune is 53.
- Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 51.
- Comedian-actor Kristen Wiig is 51.
- Talk show host James Corden is 46.
- Pop singer Dua Lipa is 29.
