On this day: August 22
POSTED: 03:42 PM PDT Aug 20, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Aug 21, 2012
Teddy Roosevelt goes for a historic ride, tennis player Althea Gibson breaks racial barriers, The Supremes hit No. 1 for the first time and Nolan Ryan notches his 5,000 career strikeout, all on this day.
General Motors
1902: The Cadillac Motor Company is founded by Henry Leland, a master mechanic and entrepreneur, who names the company after his ancestor, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, the founder of the city of Detroit. The company's crest is based on a coat of arms that Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac had created at the time of his marriage in Quebec in 1687. General Motors would purchase the company in 1909.
