August 22<\/p>\n
1485 \u2013 King Richard III Plantagenet\u00a0and several noblemen are killed in battle at Bosworth Field. Henry VII takes the throne and begins the reign of the House of Tudor<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 Hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements en route, British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix in central New York<\/p>\n
1851 \u2013 The first America’s Cup yacht race is won by the yacht America<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.<\/p>\n 1902 \u2013 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. 1934 \u2013 Norman Schwarzkopf\u00a0 Jr. is born in Tenton., New Jersey.<\/p>\n 1941 \u2013 German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 X-15 Flight 91, piloted by Joseph A. Walker, reaches the highest altitude of the program, 354,200 feet, 67+ miles<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, the first visit of a pope to Latin America.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by Congress, but eventually fails ratification with only 16 states voting for it.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 Texas Rangers’ Nolan Ryan strikes out Oakland Athletics’ Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 President Bush calls up U.S. military reservists for service due to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11 day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30\u20133, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 22 1485 \u2013 King Richard III Plantagenet\u00a0and several noblemen are killed in battle at Bosworth Field. Henry VII takes the throne and begins the reign of the House of Tudor 1777 \u2013 Hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements en route, British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix in central New York 1851 \u2013 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95339,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58495\/revisions\/95339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOn the same day, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.<\/p>\n