August 22, first America’s Cup trophy – The Mercury News
Today is Thursday, August 22nd, the 235th day of the year 2024. There are 131 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On August 22, 1851, the schooner America left more than a dozen British ships behind off the English coast and won a trophy that became known as America’s Cup.
Also on this date:
In 1791, the Haitian Revolution began when the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue rose up against the French colonialists.
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, apparently by members of the Irish Republican Army who opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which Collins had co-signed.
In 1965, a fourteen-minute brawl broke out between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers after Giants pitcher Juan Marichal hit Dodgers catcher John Roseboro in the head with a baseball bat. (Marichal and Roseboro later reconciled and became lifelong friends.)
In 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogotá (Colombia) for the beginning of his first papal visit to South America.
In 1972, John Wojtowicz (WAHT’-uh-joke) and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees of a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn, New York, hostage in a botched robbery. The siege, which ended with Wojtowicz’s arrest and Naturile’s murder by the FBI, was the inspiration for the 1975 film Dog Days.
In 1989, Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot dead in Oakland, California.
In 1992, on the second day of the siege of Ruby Ridge in Idaho, an FBI sniper killed Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver.
In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a welfare bill 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 the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse.
In 2007, a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 14 US soldiers on board.
Today’s birthdays:
- The author Annie Proulx (proo) is 89.
- Carl Yastrzemski, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is 85.
- Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 83.
- Writer and producer David Chase is 79.
- CBS news anchor Steve Kroft is 79.
- Diana Nyad, member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, is 75.
- Paul Molitor, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, 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.
- Mats Wilander (VEE’-luhn-dur), member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, is 60 years old.
- 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 and actress Kristen Wiig is 51.
- Talk show host James Corden is 46.
- Pop singer Dua Lipa is 29.
