Created: Aug 22, 2009 11:00 AM
TODAY is Saturday, August 22, the 234th day of 2009. There are 131 days left in the year.In 1485, King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses. Henry Tudor succeeded Richard to become King Henry VII.
TODAY is Saturday, August 22, the 234th day of 2009. There are 131 days left in the year.
ON THIS DATE
In 1485, King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses. Henry Tudor succeeded Richard to become King Henry VII.
In 1922, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was shot to death, apparently by Irish Republican Army members who were opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art." — Claude Debussy, French composer (born this date in 1862, died 1918).
