Today in History: August 22, first America’s Cup trophy ...Middle East

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2023. There are 131 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: 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 In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese control until the end of World War II. In 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war against Belgium. In 1922, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was shot to death, apparently by Irish Republican Army members

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