TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

August 22, 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.

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1787

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

1910

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

1932

The British Broadcasting Corp. conducted its first experimental television broadcast, using a 30-line mechanical system.

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.

1972

President Richard Nixon was nominated for a second term of office by the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach.

1978

President Jomo Kenyatta, a leading figure in Kenya’s struggle for independence, died; Vice President Daniel arap Moi was sworn in as acting president.

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. The Rob Reiner coming-of-age film “Stand By Me” was put into wide release by Columbia Pictures.

1989

Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, California.

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.