■ On Aug. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln publicly responded to Horace Greeley’s “Prayer of Twenty Millions,” which had urged Lincoln to take more drastic steps in abolishing slavery; Lincoln replied that his priority was saving the Union, but also repeated his “personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.”
■ In 1485, England’s King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.
■ In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
■ In 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.
■ In 1932, the British Broadcasting Corp. conducted its first experimental television broadcast, using a 30-line mechanical system.
■ In 1989, Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif. (Gunman Tyrone Robinson was later sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.)
Today’s birthdays: Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf is 78. Broadcast journalist Morton Dean is 77. Football coach Bill Parcells is 71. Country singer Holly Dunn is 55. Singer Tori Amos is 49. Actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is 45. Rock musician Paul Doucette (Matchbox Twenty) is 40. Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 39. Comedian-actress Kristen Wiig is 39. Rock musician Dean Back (Theory of a Deadman) is 37. Actor Brandon Adams is 33. Actress Aya Sumika is 32.