TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, AUG. 22,

the 234th day of 2017. There are 131 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:

On this date in 1851, the schooner America outraced 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 1485,

England’s King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.

In 1787,

inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

In 1846,

Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaimed all of New Mexico a territory of the United States.

In 1910,

Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese control until the end of World War II.

In 1972,

John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees hostage at a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn, N.Y., during a botched robbery; the siege, which ended with Wojtowicz’s arrest and Naturile’s killing by the FBI, inspired the 1975 movie “Dog Day Afternoon.”

In 1986,

Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-yearold nuclear contamination lawsuit.

In 1992,

on the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho, an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver (the sharpshooter later said he was targeting the couple’s friend Kevin Harris, and didn’t see Vicki Weaver).

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Author Annie Proulx is 82. Actress Valerie Harper is 78. Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 76. CBS newsman Steve Kroft is 72. Rock musician Vernon Reid is 59. Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) and rock musician Debbi Peterson (The Bangles) are 56. Singer Tori Amos and rhythm-andblues musician James DeBarge are 54. International Tennis Hall-of-Famer Mats Wilander is 53. Actor Ty Burrell is 50. Celebrity chef Giada DeLaurentiis is 47. Rock musician Paul Doucette (Matchbox Twenty) is 45.