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Today is Saturday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2026. There are 131 days left in the year.<\/p>\n

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Today in history:<\/h4>\n

On Aug. 22, 2007, a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard.<\/p>\n

Also on this date:<\/h4>\n

In 1791, the Haitian Revolution began as enslaved people of Saint-Domingue rose up against French colonizers.<\/p>\n

In 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\u2019s Cup.<\/p>\n

In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese control until the end of World War II.<\/p>\n

In 1922, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was shot to death, apparently by Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had cosigned.<\/p>\n

In 1965, a 14-minute brawl ensued between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers after Giants pitcher Juan Marichal struck Dodgers catcher John Roseboro in the head with a baseball bat. (Marichal and Roseboro would later reconcile and become lifelong friends.)<\/p>\n

In 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to South America.<\/p>\n

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In 1972, John Wojtowicz (WAHT\u2019-uh-witz) 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\u2019s arrest and Naturile\u2019s killing by the FBI, inspired the 1975 movie \u201cDog Day Afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1989, Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, California.<\/p>\n

In 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.<\/p>\n

In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients.<\/p>\n

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In 2003, Alabama\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

In 2016, a bomb attack targeting an outdoor wedding party in Turkey killed at least 30 people and wounded 94 others. The attack came as the country was still reeling from a failed coup attempt weeks earlier.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States\u2019 top infectious disease expert who became a household name \u2014 and the subject of partisan attacks \u2014 during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced he would be leaving the federal government in December after more than five decades of public service.<\/p>\n

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  • Pop singer Dua Lipa is 31.<\/li>\n
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