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.

1972:
Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies

1910:
Japan annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.

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

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