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.