This day in history

I had some birthday shopping to do so I'm a little late but today's (August 22) history includes:

 

1647 - the pressure cooker was invented by Denis Papin called a "steam digester."

 

1851 - in the first America's Cup, the yacht America representing the New York Yacht Club took first place honors over the Royal Yacht Squadron

 

1864 - the first Geneva Convention was ratified by 12 countries in an effort to improve war-time conditions for those on the battlefield

 

1865 - one of the first patents for liquid soap was issued to William Sheppard. The "Improved Liquid Soap" received patent No. 49,561

 

1894 - Mahatma Gandhi founded the Natal Indian Congress to advocate against discrimination of Indians in South Africa 

 

1902 - President Theodore Roosevelt set out on a tour of New England by car. It was the first time a US President greeted the public by automobile 

 

1906 - Victor introduced the first Victrola, a wooden cabinet with an internal horn to project sound played recordings from a disc

 

1911 - Ole Evinrude was granted patent No. US58233610A for his Marine Propulsion Mechanism. It was one of the first commercially successful outboard motors for boats

 

1939 - Julian Kahn was granted patent No. US101783A for an "Apparatus for Mixing a Liquid with a Gas" - specifically whipped cream

 

1950 - professional tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African American invited to compete in the US Nationals

 

1986 - the Stephen King and Rob Reiner film Stand By Me was released nationally

 

2004 - Edvard Munch's works "The Scream" and "Madonna" were stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. Two years later they were recovered.

 

2004 - during the Athens Olympics, the marathon ran the same course as the 1896 games

 

Some interesting birthdays include:

Charles Francis Jenkins (1867) - first to move a cars engine from under the seat to the front of the car

Willis Rodney Whitney (1868) - established the General Electric Company laboratory 

George Herriman (1880) - creator of cartoons characters Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse

Dorothy Parker (1893)

Edith Prada (1912)

John Lee Hooker (1917) - know as the "King of Boogie" and brought an ever-evolving style to the world of Blues

Mary McGrory (1918)

Norman Schwarzkopf (1934) - 4-star Army general who led the Allied Forces to victory during the first Persian Gulf War

Valerie Harper (1939) - best known as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore show

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1940) - contributed to the success if the mechanical television with his invention of the Nipkow disk

Bill Parcells (1941)