Today in History: August 22, hostages taken during botched Brooklyn bank robbery
Currently is Friday Aug the th day of There are days left in the year Nowadays in history On Aug John Wojtowicz WAHT -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 s arrest and Naturile s killing by the FBI inspired the movie Dog Day Afternoon Also on this date In the Haitian Revolution began as enslaved people of Saint-Domingue rose up against French colonizers Related Articles Wyoming man indicted for allegedly hitting wolf with snowmobile bringing it to bar and killing it Jena Griswold fires back after Trump calls again for Tina Peters release and threatens harsh measures Passengers sue United and Delta for selling window seats next to blank walls Federal investigators demanded details on transgender patients from at least hospital US flight attendants are fed up like their Air Canada peers Here s why they aren t likely to strike In 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 In Japan annexed Korea which remained under Japanese control until the end of World War II In 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 In 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 in the head with a baseball bat Marichal and Roseboro would later reconcile and become lifelong friends In Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota Colombia for the start of the first papal visit to South America In Black Panthers co-founder Huey P Newton was shot to death in Oakland California In on the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver In President Bill Clinton signed welfare improvement measure that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients In 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 In A Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq killing all U S soldiers aboard Currently s Birthdays Author Annie Proulx proo is Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski is Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is Writer-producer David Chase is Retired CBS newsman Steve Kroft is International Swimming Hall of Famer Diana Nyad is Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Molitor is Rock guitarist Vernon Reid is Country singer Collin Raye is Rock singer Roland Orzabal Tears For Fears is Singer Tori Amos is International Tennis Hall of Famer Mats Wilander VEE -luhn-dur is Rapper GZA JIHZ -ah The Genius is Actor Ty Burrell is Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is Actor Rick Yune is Singer Howie Dorough Backstreet Boys is Comedian-actor Kristen Wiig is Talk show host James Corden is Pop singer Dua Lipa is
