TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, August 22, the 234th day of 2018. There are 131 days left in the year.

392 Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.

851 Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. 1485 The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.

1639 Madras ( now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

1642 Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.

1654 Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.

1777 British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.

1791 Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in SaintDomingue, Haiti. 1849 The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.

1875 The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

1894 Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress ( NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.

1902 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.

1922 Michael Collins, Commander- in- chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.

1949 The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada’s strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.

1966 Labour movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee ( UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.

1968 Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.

1971 J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. 1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.

2004 Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

2007 The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30– 3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.