Wednesday, August 22, 2018

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

1454 — Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus

1485 — Richard III slain at Bosworth Field-last of Plantagenets

1787 — John Fitch’s steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton

1846 — U.S. annexes New Mexico

1851 — Gold fields discovered in Australia

1851 — Yacht "America" wins first Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America’s Cup)

1864 — Geneva Convention signed, by 12 nations

1902 — President Teddy Roosevelt became first U.S. chief executive to ride in a car