DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Sunday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2021. There are 131 days left in the year.
On this date:
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. (Gunman Tyrone Robinson was later sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.)
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).
1996: President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.
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.
Newsman Morton Dean is 86. TV writer/producer David Chase (“The Sopranos”) is 76. Correspondent Steve Kroft (“60 Minutes”) is 76. Actor Cindy Williams (“Laverne and Shirley”) is 74. Guitarist David Marks of The Beach Boys is 73. Guitarist Vernon Reid of Living Colour is 63. Country singer Collin
Raye is 61. Actor Regina Taylor (“The Unit,” “I’ll Fly Away”) is 61. Singer Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears is 60. Drummer Debbi Peterson of The Bangles is 60. Guitarist Gary Lee Conner of Screaming Trees is 59. Singer Tori Amos is 58. Country singer Mila Mason is 58. Keyboardist James Debarge of Debarge is 58. Rapper GZA (Wu-tang Clan) is 55. Actor Adewale Akinnuoye-agbaje (“Oz,” “Lost”) is 54. Actor Ty Burrell (“Modern Family”) is 54. Celebrity chef Giada Delaurentiis is 51. Actor Melinda Page Hamilton (“Devious Maids,” “Mad Men,”) is 50. Actor Rick Yune (“Die Another Day,” “The Fast and the Furious”) is 50. Guitarist Paul Doucette of Matchbox Twenty is 49.