• Today is Wednesday, Aug. 22, the 235th day of 2012. There are 131 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Aug. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln publicly responded to Horace Greeley's "Prayer of Twenty Millions," which had urged Lincoln to take more drastic steps in abolishing slavery; Lincoln replied that his priority was saving the Union, but also repeated his "personal wish that all men everywhere could be free."
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• On this date:
• In 1485, England's King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.
• In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
• In 1846, Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaimed all of New Mexico a territory of the United States.
• In 1851, the schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America's Cup.
• In 1862, French composer Claude Debussy (deh-byoo-SEE') was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
• In 1922, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was shot to death, apparently by Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed.
• In 1932, the British Broadcasting Corp. conducted its first experimental television broadcast, using a 30-line mechanical system.
• In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were nominated for second terms in office by the Republican national convention in San

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