Today’s highlight

On Aug. 22, 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’s Cup.

On this date

1791: The Haitian Revolution began as enslaved people of Saint-Domingue rose up against French colonizers.

1910: Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese control until the end of World War II.

1922: 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.

1972: John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees hostage at a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn during a botched robbery; the siege, which ended with Wojtowicz’s arrest and Naturile’s killing by the FBI, inspired the 1975 movie “Dog Day Afternoon.”

Today’s birthdays

Author Annie Proulx is 89. Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 85. Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 83. CBS newsman Steve Kroft is 79. International Swimming Hall of Famer Diana Nyad is 75. Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Molitor is 68. Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) is 63. Singer Tori Amos is 61. International Tennis Hall of Famer Mats Wilander is 60. Actor Ty Burrell is 57. Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is 54. Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 51. Comedian-actor Kristen Wiig is 51. Talk show host James Corden is 46.