TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2017

On this day in history:

1485 - The War of the Roses ended with the death of England’s King Richard III. He was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field. His successor was Henry V II.

1642 - The English Civil War began when Charles I called Parliament and its soldiers traitors.

1770 - Australia was claimed under the British crown when Captain James Cook landed there.

1770 - James Cook takes possession of the eastern coast of “New Holland”. 1775 - The American colonies were proclaimed to be in a state of open rebellion by England’s King George III. 1846 - The US 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.

1872 - Giles begins his first expedition into the Australian desert.

1872 - The Northern and Southern sections of the Overland Telegraph Line, crossing the Australian continent, are joined.

1910 - Japan formally annexed Korea.

1917 - Stockman Jim Darcy dies, causing a chain of events that eventually leads to the founding of Australia’s Flying Doctor Service.

1941 - Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during the Second World War. 1968 - Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.

1972 - Due to its racial policies, Rhodesia was asked to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games. 1991 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned to Moscow after the collapse of the hard-liners’ coup. On the same day he purged the men that had tried to oust him.

1992 - In Rostock, Germany, neo-Nazi violence broke out against foreigners.

2004 - In Oslo, Norway, a version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” and his work “Madonna” were stolen from the Munch Museum. This version of “The Scream,” one of four different versions, was a tempera painting on board.