This Day in History Aug. 22

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Aug. 22

565 Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland
1864 Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
1902 Cadillac Motor Company is founded
1902 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile
1906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured

Birthdays:

1860 Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, created the Nipkow disk
1920 Dr Denton Cooley heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant)

Deaths:

1963 William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris
Motors

Thought for the day:

" Early to rise and ditto to bed, make a man healthy, but socially dead. "
 

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