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August 22
August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining.
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Events
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- 1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses
- 1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy
- 1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War
- 1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States
- 1717 - Spanish troops land on Sardinia
- 1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia
- 1775 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion
- 1780 - James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)
- 1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution
- 1798 - French troops land in Ireland to aid Irish Rebellion
- 1846 - The United States annexes New Mexico
- 1851 - Gold is discovered in Australia
- 1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
- 1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
- 1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded
- 1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile
- 1910 - Japan annexes Korea
- 1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered
- 1914 - In Belgium, British and German troops meet for the first time in World War I
- 1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during and Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork during the Irish Civil War.
- 1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
- 1941 - German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad
- 1942 - Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)
- 1944 - Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany
- 1944 - 32 Spaniards & 4 Frenchmen tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis wounded, 110 Germans killed, 200 wounded.
- 1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis
- 1953 - The jail on Devil's Island is closed
- 1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles De Gaulle fails
- 1962 - The Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage
- 1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America
- 1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies
- 1975 - An attempt to assassinate president Gerald Ford fails
- 1988 - The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued
- 1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered
- 1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first major league baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.
- 1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shot and killed Vicki Weaver during an 11 day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
- 2001 - the Trojan room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.
- 2004 - The Scream by Edvard Munch is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
BirthsEdit
- 1647 - Denis Papin, inventor
- 1760 - Pope Leo XII
- 1771 - Henry Maudslay, [nventor and tool-maker
- 1800 - William S. Harney, U.S. general
- 1802 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard
- 1854 - King Milan I of Serbia
- 1860 - Paul Nipkow, inventor and television pioneer
- 1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
- 1874 - Max Scheler, philosopher
- 1880 - George Herriman, cartoonist
- 1893 - Dorothy Parker, writer (d. 1967)
- 1900 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
- 1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, film director (d. 2003)
- 1904 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
- 1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- 1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
- 1917 - John Lee Hooker, blues guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
- 1920 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
- 1920 - Doctor Denton Cooley, heart surgeon
- 1924 - James Kirkwood Jr., novelist (d. 1989)
- 1927 - Honor Blackman, actress
- 1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer
- 1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
- 1935 - E. Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- 1938 - Paul Maguire, American football player
- 1939 - George Reinholt, actor
- 1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1940 - Valerie Harper, actress
- 1941 - Bill Parcells, American football coach
- 1942 - Kathy Lennon, American singer
- 1947 - Cindy Williams, actress
- 1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
- 1956 - Paul Molitor, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1957 - Steve Davis, English snooker player
- 1958 - Colm Feore, actor
- 1958 - Vernon Reid, musician (Living Colour)
- 1960 - Debbi Peterson, drummer (The Bangles)
- 1961 - Roland Orzabal, singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears)
- 1963 - Tori Amos, singer, songwriter, and pianist
- 1964 - Mats Wilander, tennis player
- 1967 - Layne Staley, musician
- 1978 - Jean-Francois "Jeff" Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1991 - Austin Desadier, musician
DeathsEdit
- 408 - Stilicho, military strongman of the Roman Empire (legal murder)
- 1188 - King Ferdinand II of Leon
- 1241 - Pope Gregory IX
- 1280 - Pope Nicholas III
- 1286 - Erik V Klipping, King of Denmark (murdered)
- 1350 - King Philip VI of France (b. 1293)
- 1485 - Richard III of England,
- 1553 - John Dudley, English admiral and politician (beheaded)
- 1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer
- 1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
- 1818 - Warren Hastings, governor-general of India
- 1891 - Jan Neruda, author
- 1903 - Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1904 - Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1851)
- 1922 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (killed in an ambush)
- 1926 - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
- 1953 - Jim Tabor, baseball player
- 1977 - Sebastian Cabot, actor
- 1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, first Prime Minister of Kenya (1963-1978)
- 1989 - Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panthers
- 1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, actress
- 2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, figure skating trainer
- 2004 - Konstantin Aseev, chess player (b. 1960)
Holidays and observancesEdit
External links Edit
July 22 - August 21 - August 23 - September 22 -- listing of all days
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