Key Historical Events from 1851 to 2022: A Timeline of Significant Moments
On August 22, 1851, the schooner America won the America's Cup by defeating British vessels off the English coast. The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as enslaved people rebelled against French colonizers. Japan annexed Korea in 1910, holding control until the end of World War II. Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was assassinated in 1922 due to opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. A brawl erupted in 1965 between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers after a violent incident involving a baseball bat. Pope Paul VI visited Bogota, Colombia, in 1968 for the first papal visit to South America. In 1972, a botched bank robbery in Brooklyn inspired the movie "Dog Day Afternoon." Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland in 1989. The Ruby Ridge siege in 1992 resulted in the death of Vicki Weaver. President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation in 1996, ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor. Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended in 2003 for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument. A Black Hawk helicopter crash in Iraq in 2007 killed all 14 U.S. soldiers on board. A bomb attack at a wedding party in Turkey in 2016 killed 30 people and wounded 94 others. Dr. Anthony Fauci announced in 2022 that he would be leaving the federal government in December after over five decades of public service.