The 234th day of 2025 is today, Friday, August 22. The year has 131 days remaining.
Following a failed robbery at a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn, New York, on August 22, 1972, John Wojtowicz (pronounced WAHT-uh-witz) and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees hostage. The siege, which ended with Wojtowicz’s arrest and Naturile’s murder by the FBI, served as the basis for the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.
The Haitian Revolution started in 1791 when the slaves of Saint-Domingue rebelled against the French conquerors.
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The schooner America won a trophy that became known as the America’s Cup in 1851 after outracing over a dozen British ships off the coast of England.
Korea was seized by Japan in 1910 and stayed under Japanese rule until the end of World War II.
Michael Collins, an Irish revolutionary, was shot dead in 1922, perhaps by members of the Irish Republican Army who were against the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which Collins had co-signed.
The San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers got into a fourteen-minute altercation in 1965 after Giants pitcher Juan Marichal used a baseball bat to hit Dodgers catcher John Roseboro in the head. (Marichal and Roseboro would eventually make up and become friends for life.)
The first papal journey to South America began in 1968 when Pope Paul VI landed in Bogota, Colombia.
Huey P. Newton, a co-founder of the Black Panthers, was shot dead in Oakland, California, in 1989.
Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver, was shot and murdered by an FBI agent on the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho in 1992.
President Bill Clinton approved welfare reform legislation in 1996, which required recipients to work and stopped providing guaranteed cash payments to the destitute.
Roy Moore, the chief justice of Alabama, was suspended in 2003 after he disregarded a federal court order to take down his monument to the Ten Commandments from the courthouse rotunda.
All 14 American servicemen were killed when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq in 2007.
- Author Annie Proulx (proo) is 90.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 86.
- Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 84.
- Writer-producer David Chase is 80.
- Retired CBS newsman Steve Kroft is 80.
- International Swimming Hall of Famer Diana Nyad is 76.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Molitor is 69.
- Rock guitarist Vernon Reid is 67.
- Country singer Collin Raye is 65.
- Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) is 64.
- Singer Tori Amos is 62.
- International Tennis Hall of Famer Mats Wilander (VEE -luhn-dur) is 61.
- Rapper GZA (JIHZ -ah)/The Genius is 59.
- Actor Ty Burrell is 58.
- Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is 55.
- Actor Rick Yune is 54.
- Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 52.
- Comedian-actor Kristen Wiig is 52.
- Talk show host James Corden is 47.
- Pop singer Dua Lipa is 30.
