TODAY IN HISTORY

SUNDAY AUG 22, 2021

1996

President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.

1485

England’s King Richard

III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.

1846

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

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.

1910

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

1914

Austria-hungary declared war against Belgium.

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.

1968

Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to South America.

1972

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

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.

2003

Alabama’s chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse.

2007

A Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers. Hurricane Dean slammed into Mexico for the second time in as many days.