August 22
1642 - The English Civil War between supporters of King Charles I (Royalists or Cavaliers) and those of Oliver Cromwell (Roundheads) began.
1775 - England's King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
1787 - Inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
1846 - The United States annexed New Mexico.
1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to ride in an automobile.
1910 - Korea was annexed by Japan after five years as a protectorate.
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war against Belgium during World War I.
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 - John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees hostage at a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn, New York, during a botched robbery; the siege, which ended with Wojtowicz's arrest and Naturile's killing by the FBI, inspired the 1975 movie "Dog Day Afternoon."
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.
1996 - President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients.
2000 - Publishers Clearing House agreed to pay $18 million to 24 states and the District of Columbia to settle allegations it had used deceptive promotions in its sweepstakes mailings.
2003 - Alabama's chief justice Roy Moore was suspended for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse.
2004 - A version of Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" was stolen in Norway.
2007 - A Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard.
2012 - A mysterious glitch halted trading on the NASDAQ exchange for three hours.
2013 - Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak was released from prison and transported to a military hospital in a Cairo suburb to be held under house arrest. The day before, Mubarak was sentenced to up to 35 years in prison for leaking secrets.
2018 - The bull market in U.S. stocks became the longest one on record; it had been 3,453 days since the S&P 500 index had seen a drop of 20 percent or more.
2022 - Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate until a neutral special master could be appointed. The attorneys asserted in a court filing, their first since the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks earlier, that the sets of documents taken from the residence were "presumptively" covered by executive privilege.
Birthdays
27 - Lulu Antariksa (actress)
28 - Dua Lipa (singer)
30 - Ari Stidham (actor)
30 - Keith Powers (actor)
34 - Laura Dreyfuss (actress)
36 - Pac (professional wrestler)
37 - Jimmy Uso (professional wrestler)
37 - Jey Uso (professional wrestler)
42 - Aya Sumika (actress)
43 - Brandon Adams (actor)
44 - James Corden (talk show host)
48 - Bo Koster (musician)
48 - Jenna Leigh Green (actress)
49 - Kristen Wiig (actress)
51 - Rick Yune (actor)
51 - Richard Armitage (actor)
51 - Melinda Page Hamilton (actress)
52 - Giada De Laurentiis (TV chef)
55 - Ty Burrell (actor)
55 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (actor)
56 - Brooke Dillman (actress)
59 - Mila Mason (singer)
59 - Tori Amos (singer)
62 - Regina Taylor (actress)
66 - Paul Molitor (baseball player)
73 - Diana Nyad (swimmer)
77 - Steve Kroft (news anchor)
81 - Bill Parcells (football coach)
83 - Carl Yastrzemski (baseball player)
87 - Morton Dean (broadcast journalist)
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Today in Sports History - August 22
1851 - The U.S. yacht "America" outraced the British Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.
1950 - Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to be accepted into a national competition.
1951 - 75,052 people watched the Harlem Globetrotters perform. It was the largest crowd to see a basketball game.
1959 - The American Football League is officially named at a meeting in Dallas; charter members were the Dallas Texans (now Chiefs), New York Titans (now Jets), Houston Oilers (now Titans), Denver Broncos, Los Angeles Chargers and Minneapolis-St. Paul Vikings.
1972 - Due to its racial policies, Rhodesia was asked to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games.
1989 - Nolan Ryan became the first major league pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters.
2003 - Albert Pujols (St. Louis Cardinals) went 0-5 to end a 30-game hitting streak.
2007 - The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored in a team in modern MLB history.
2018 - Ohio State suspended football coach Urban Meyer for three games; investigators found that Meyer had protected an assistant coach for years through domestic violence allegations, a drug problem and poor job performance.
1642 - The English Civil War between supporters of King Charles I (Royalists or Cavaliers) and those of Oliver Cromwell (Roundheads) began.
1775 - England's King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
1787 - Inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
1846 - The United States annexed New Mexico.
1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to ride in an automobile.
1910 - Korea was annexed by Japan after five years as a protectorate.
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war against Belgium during World War I.
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 - John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees hostage at a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn, New York, during a botched robbery; the siege, which ended with Wojtowicz's arrest and Naturile's killing by the FBI, inspired the 1975 movie "Dog Day Afternoon."
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.
1996 - President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients.
2000 - Publishers Clearing House agreed to pay $18 million to 24 states and the District of Columbia to settle allegations it had used deceptive promotions in its sweepstakes mailings.
2003 - Alabama's chief justice Roy Moore was suspended for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse.
2004 - A version of Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" was stolen in Norway.
2007 - A Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard.
2012 - A mysterious glitch halted trading on the NASDAQ exchange for three hours.
2013 - Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak was released from prison and transported to a military hospital in a Cairo suburb to be held under house arrest. The day before, Mubarak was sentenced to up to 35 years in prison for leaking secrets.
2018 - The bull market in U.S. stocks became the longest one on record; it had been 3,453 days since the S&P 500 index had seen a drop of 20 percent or more.
2022 - Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate until a neutral special master could be appointed. The attorneys asserted in a court filing, their first since the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks earlier, that the sets of documents taken from the residence were "presumptively" covered by executive privilege.
Birthdays
27 - Lulu Antariksa (actress)
28 - Dua Lipa (singer)
30 - Ari Stidham (actor)
30 - Keith Powers (actor)
34 - Laura Dreyfuss (actress)
36 - Pac (professional wrestler)
37 - Jimmy Uso (professional wrestler)
37 - Jey Uso (professional wrestler)
42 - Aya Sumika (actress)
43 - Brandon Adams (actor)
44 - James Corden (talk show host)
48 - Bo Koster (musician)
48 - Jenna Leigh Green (actress)
49 - Kristen Wiig (actress)
51 - Rick Yune (actor)
51 - Richard Armitage (actor)
51 - Melinda Page Hamilton (actress)
52 - Giada De Laurentiis (TV chef)
55 - Ty Burrell (actor)
55 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (actor)
56 - Brooke Dillman (actress)
59 - Mila Mason (singer)
59 - Tori Amos (singer)
62 - Regina Taylor (actress)
66 - Paul Molitor (baseball player)
73 - Diana Nyad (swimmer)
77 - Steve Kroft (news anchor)
81 - Bill Parcells (football coach)
83 - Carl Yastrzemski (baseball player)
87 - Morton Dean (broadcast journalist)
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Today in Sports History - August 22
1851 - The U.S. yacht "America" outraced the British Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.
1950 - Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to be accepted into a national competition.
1951 - 75,052 people watched the Harlem Globetrotters perform. It was the largest crowd to see a basketball game.
1959 - The American Football League is officially named at a meeting in Dallas; charter members were the Dallas Texans (now Chiefs), New York Titans (now Jets), Houston Oilers (now Titans), Denver Broncos, Los Angeles Chargers and Minneapolis-St. Paul Vikings.
1972 - Due to its racial policies, Rhodesia was asked to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games.
1989 - Nolan Ryan became the first major league pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters.
2003 - Albert Pujols (St. Louis Cardinals) went 0-5 to end a 30-game hitting streak.
2007 - The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored in a team in modern MLB history.
2018 - Ohio State suspended football coach Urban Meyer for three games; investigators found that Meyer had protected an assistant coach for years through domestic violence allegations, a drug problem and poor job performance.
