At this time is Thursday, Aug. 22, the 235th day of 2024. There are 131 days left within the 12 months.
At this time in historical past:
On Aug. 22, 1851, the schooner America outraced greater than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that got here to be often called the America’s Cup.
Additionally on this date:
In 1791, the Haitian Revolution started as enslaved folks of Saint-Domingue rose up in opposition to French colonizers.
In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained underneath Japanese management till the tip of World Struggle II.
In 1922, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was shot to dying, apparently by Irish Republican Military members against the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed.
In 1965, a fourteen-minute brawl ensued between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers after Giants pitcher Juan Marichal caught Dodgers catcher John Roseboro within the head with a baseball bat. (Marichal and Roseboro would later reconcile and turn out to be lifelong pals.)
In 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the beginning of the primary papal go to to South America.
In 1972, John Wojtowicz (WAHT’-uh-witz) and Salvatore Naturile took seven staff hostage at a Chase Manhattan Financial institution department in Brooklyn, New York, throughout a botched theft; the siege, which ended with Wojtowicz’s arrest and Naturile’s killing by the FBI, impressed the 1975 film “Canine Day Afternoon.”
In 1989, Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to dying in Oakland, California.
In 1992, on the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho, an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver, the spouse of white separatist Randy Weaver.
In 1996, President Invoice Clinton signed welfare laws that ended assured money funds to the poor and demanded work from recipients.
In 2003, Alabama’s chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal courtroom order to take away his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse.
In 2007, A Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. troopers aboard.
At this time’s Birthdays:
- Writer Annie Proulx (proo) is 89.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 85.
- Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame coach Invoice Parcells is 83.
- Author-producer David Chase is 79.
- CBS newsman Steve Kroft is 79.
- Worldwide Swimming Corridor of Famer Diana Nyad is 75.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Paul Molitor is 68.
- Rock guitarist Vernon Reid is 66.
- Nation singer Collin Raye is 64.
- Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) is 63.
- Singer Tori Amos is 61.
- Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Famer Mats Wilander (VEE’-luhn-dur) is 60.
- Rapper GZA (JIHZ’-ah)/The Genius is 58.
- Actor Ty Burrell is 57.
- Celeb chef Giada De Laurentiis is 54.
- Actor Rick Yune is 53.
- Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 51.
- Comic-actor Kristen Wiig is 51.
- Speak present host James Corden is 46.
- Pop singer Dua Lipa is 29.