August 22nd, 2008

Today in History

1989:
Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first major league baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.

1950:
Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis

1798:
French troops land in County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion

1791:
Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue

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