TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

August 22, 1996

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

ON THIS DATE 1485

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

1989

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

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.