August 22
1485 – King Richard III Plantagenet and several noblemen are killed in battle at Bosworth Field. Henry VII takes the throne and begins the reign of the House of Tudor
1777 – Hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements en route, British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix in central New York
1851 – The first America’s Cup yacht race is won by the yacht America.
1864 – 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
1902 – Named after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, founder of Detroit, Michigan, William Murphy and Lemuel Bowen, investors of the recently dissolved Henry Ford Company, found the Cadillac Automobile Company.
On the same day, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. is born in Tenton., New Jersey.
1941 – German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.
1963 – X-15 Flight 91, piloted by Joseph A. Walker, reaches the highest altitude of the program, 354,200 feet, 67+ miles
1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia, the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1978 – The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by Congress, but eventually fails ratification with only 16 states voting for it.
1989 – Texas Rangers’ Nolan Ryan strikes out Oakland Athletics’ Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1990 – President Bush calls up U.S. military reservists for service due to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
1992 – FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11 day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.