Today in History in 1902 Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

August 22 is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

392 – Arbogast is elected Roman Emperor.

476 – Odoacer is proclaimed, by West Roman mercenaries, as Rex Italiae, King of Italy.

1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England near Northallerton, Yorkshire.

1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses. Richard III of England dies, and Henry VII of England takes over, starting the period with the Tudor Dynasty ruling England, lasting until 1603.

1559 – Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.

1639 – Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is founded by the British East India Company.

1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War

1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States

1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia

1770 – James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia

1775 – King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion

1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix, after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.

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

1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution

1827 – Jose de la Mar becomes President of Peru.

1832 – Dressed as an Arab, Swiss Jean Louis Burckhardt reaches Petra, the famous rock city in Jordan. In Europe, it had until then only been rumored to exist.

1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.

1851 – Gold is discovered in Australia.

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

1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.

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

1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded

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

1910 – Japan annexes Korea.

1911 – The theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered, after being stolen in the night from August 21.

1914 – In Belgium, British and German troops meet for the first time in World War I

1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an anti-treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork during the Irish Civil War.

1926 – Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

1930 – Peruvian President Augusto B. Leguia y Salcedo is deposed in a coup led by General Luis Miguel Sanchez Cerro.

1932 – The BBC experiments with television broadcasting.

1934 – Australian Bill Woodfull becomes the first cricket captain to regain The Ashes twice. The Ashes is a series of fives matches played between Australia and England.

1941 – German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the Siege of Leningrad

1942 – Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)

1944 – Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany

1944 – 32 Spaniards and 4 Frenchmen tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with six tanks and two self-propelled guns), at La Madeleine, France. Three Maquis wounded, 110 Germans killed, 200 wounded.

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

1952 – France permanently closes the Devil's Island penal colony off French Guiana. French convicts were often sent there.

1961 – Ida Siekmann falls to her death in an attempt to cross the Berlin Wall.

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

1962 – The Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage

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

1971 – Hugo Banzer takes power in Bolivia.

1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies.

1973 – United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers resigns. Henry Kissinger succeeds him.

1975 – An attempt to assassinate US President Gerald Ford fails.

1978 – The Sandinista Liberation Front occupies the national palace in Managua, Nicaragua.

1981 – The Voyager 2 space probe photographs Saturn's moon Iapetus.

1985 – The Manchester Air Disaster occurs when 55 people are killed after a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester International Airport.

1988 – The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued.

1989 – The first ring of Neptune is discovered

1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.

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

1996 – US President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law.

2001 – The Trojan Room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.

2004 – The Scream and The Madonna by Edvard Munch is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes in eastern Ukraine, killing 170 people.

2007 – Major League Baseball: The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3.

2011 – 2011 Libyan civil war: Rebel forces advance on Tripoli, as the war enters its final phase.

2015 – A plane at an airshow in Shoreham, Southern England, crashes onto a motorway, killing 11 people.