As we speak is Friday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2025. There are 131 days left within the 12 months.
As we speak in historical past:
On Aug. 22,1972, John Wojtowicz (WAHT’-uh-witz) and Salvatore Naturile took seven workers hostage at a Chase Manhattan Financial institution department in Brooklyn, New York, throughout a botched theft; the siege, which ended with Wojtowicz’s arrest and Naturile’s killing by the FBI, impressed the 1975 film “Canine Day Afternoon.”
Additionally on this date:
In 1791, the Haitian Revolution started as enslaved individuals of Saint-Domingue rose up in opposition to French colonizers.
In 1851, the schooner America outraced greater than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that got here to be often called the America’s Cup.
In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained underneath Japanese management till the tip of World Warfare II.
In 1922, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was shot to loss of life, apparently by Irish Republican Military members against the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed.
In 1965, a fourteen-minute brawl ensued between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers after Giants pitcher Juan Marichal struck Dodgers catcher John Roseboro within the head with a baseball bat. (Marichal and Roseboro would later reconcile and turn into lifelong mates.)
In 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the beginning of the primary papal go to to South America.
In 1989, Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to loss of life in Oakland, California.
In 1992, on the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho, an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver, the spouse of white separatist Randy Weaver.
In 1996, President Invoice Clinton signed welfare reform laws that ended assured money funds to the poor and demanded work from recipients.
In 2003, Alabama’s chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal courtroom order to take away his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse.
In 2007, A Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. troopers aboard.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Writer Annie Proulx (proo) is 90.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 86.
- Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame coach Invoice Parcells is 84.
- Author-producer David Chase is 80.
- Retired CBS newsman Steve Kroft is 80.
- Worldwide Swimming Corridor of Famer Diana Nyad is 76.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Paul Molitor is 69.
- Rock guitarist Vernon Reid is 67.
- Nation singer Collin Raye is 65.
- Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) is 64.
- Singer Tori Amos is 62.
- Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Famer Mats Wilander (VEE’-luhn-dur) is 61.
- Rapper GZA (JIHZ’-ah)/The Genius is 59.
- Actor Ty Burrell is 58.
- Superstar chef Giada De Laurentiis is 55.
- Actor Rick Yune is 54.
- Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 52.
- Comic-actor Kristen Wiig is 52.
- Discuss present host James Corden is 47.
- Pop singer Dua Lipa is 30.
