AP Highlight in History: On Aug. 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.
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1485
England's King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses.
1846
The United States annexed New Mexico.
1851
The schooner America outraced the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.
1893
Author, poet, critic and wit Dorothy Parker was born in West Bend, N.J.
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1902
President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. chief executive to ride in an automobile, in Hartford, Conn.
1904
Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping was born in Sichuan province.
1956
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon were nominated for second terms by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
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1968
Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.
1986
Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.
1989
Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif.
2003
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.
2005
The last Jewish settlers left the Gaza Strip, ending decades of Israel's turbulent occupation.
2008
The U.S. carried out airstrikes in western Herat province in Afghanistan; according to a later U.S. estimate, the raid resulted in the deaths of 33 civilians and 22 militants. (The Afghan government and U.N. investigators said that 90 civilians had died.)
