TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS MONDAY, AUG. 22, the 235th day of 2016. There are 131 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1485, England’s King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.
In 1851, the schooner America out-raced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America’s Cup.
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 to death, apparently by Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed.
In 1932, the British Broadcasting Corp. conducted its first experimental television broadcast, using a 30-line mechanical system.
In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were nominated for second terms in office by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
In 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to South America.
In 1972, President Richard Nixon was nominated for a second term of office by the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach.
In 1985, 55 people died when fire broke out aboard a British Airtours charter jet on a runway at Manchester Airport in England.
In 1986, Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit. Also in 1986, the Rob Reiner comingof-age film “Stand By Me” was put into wide release by Columbia Pictures.
In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Broadcast journalist Morton Dean and author Annie Proulx are 81. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Carl Yastrzemski and actress Valerie Harper are 77. Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 75. Writer-producer David Chase and CBS newsman Steve Kroft are 71. Actress Cindy Williams is 69. Singer Tori Amos, country singer Mila Mason and rhythm-and-blues musician James DeBarge are 53. Talk show host James Corden (TV: “The Late Late Show with James Corden”) and rock musician Jeff Stinco (Simple Plan) are 38. Actor Brandon Adams is 37.