TODAY IN HISTORY - AUGUST 22ND

1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).

1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.

1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.

1848 – Melville Elijah Stone, American publisher, founded the Chicago Daily News (d. 1929) is born.

1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention.

1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

1914 – Connie B. Gay, American businessman, co-founded the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (d. 1989) is born.

1915 – James Hillier, Canadian-American scientist, co-designed the electron microscope (d. 2007) is born.

1936 – Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer, designed the maverick roller coaster is born.

1949 – Diana Nyad, American swimmer and author is born.

1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.

1962 – An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.

1967 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903) dies.

1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.

1989 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (b. 1942) dies.

1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.

1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy

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.

2014 – John Sperling, American businessman, founded the University of Phoenix (b. 1921) dies.