August 22: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1485 England's King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses.
2. 1642 the English Civil War begins between supporters of King Charles I (royalists) and Oliver Cromwell (Roundheads)
3. 1775 King George III proclaims that the American colonists are in open rebellion
4. 1846 The United States annexed New Mexico
5. 1851. The schooner America wins the trophy that will become the America's Cup by outracing the Aurora off the English coast.
6. In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first United States chief executive to ride in an automobile.
7. In 1910 Korea is annexed by Japan after 5 years as a protectorate
8. 1950 Althea Gibson becomes the first African-American on U.S. tennis tour.
9. 1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon were nominated for second terms by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
10. 1996 President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.
11. 2003 Roy Moore, the chief justice of Alabama, is suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his local courthouse.

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