Today in History: August 22, aboriginal America’s Cup trophy

Today in history:

On Aug. 22, 1851, the schooner America outraced added than a dozen British argosy off the English bank to win a bay that came to be accepted as the America’s Cup.

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In 1791, the Haitian Revolution began as apprenticed bodies of Saint-Domingue rose up adjoin French colonizers.

In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained beneath Japanese ascendancy until the end of World War II.

In 1922, Irish advocate Michael Collins was attempted to death, allegedly by Irish Republican Army associates against to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed.

In 1965, a fourteen-minute affray ensued amid the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers afterwards Giants bullpen Juan Marichal ashore Dodgers catcher John Roseboro in the arch with a baseball bat. (Marichal and Roseboro would after accommodating and become constant friends.)

In 1968, Pope Paul VI accustomed in Bogota, Colombia, for the alpha of the aboriginal apostolic appointment to South America.

In 1972, John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile took seven advisers' earnest at a Chase Manhattan Bank annex in Brooklyn, New York, during a adulterated robbery; the siege, which concluded with Wojtowicz’s arrest and Naturile’s killing by the FBI, aggressive the 1975 cine “Dog Day Afternoon.”

In 1989, Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton was attempt to afterlife in Oakland, California.

In 1992, on the additional day of the Ruby Ridge annoy in Idaho, an FBI analyzer dead Vicki Weaver, the wife of white agitator Randy Weaver.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton active abundance legislation that concluded affirmed banknote payments to the poor and accepted assignment from recipients.

In 2003, Alabama’s arch justice, Roy Moore, was abeyant for his abnegation to obey a federal cloister adjustment to abolish his Ten Commandments cairn from the bank of his courthouse.

In 2007, A Black Hawk helicopter comatose in Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard.