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August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining.

Contents

1 Events

1.1 1400-1899
1.2 1900-1999
1.3 2000-2099

2 Births

2.1 1600-1899
2.2 1900-1999

3 Deaths

3.1 400-1899
3.2 1900-1999
3.3 2000-2099

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

Events

1400-1899

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
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.

1900-1999

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
1923 - 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.

2000-2099

2001 - the Trojan room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.
2004 - The Scream by Edvard Munch is stolen at gunpoint from museum in Oslo, Norway.

Births

1600-1899

1647 - Denis Papin, inventor of the piston steam engine
1760 - Pope Leo XII
1771 - Henry Maudslay, inventor and tool-maker
1800 - William S. Harney, US general
1802 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard
1854 - King Milan I of Serbia
1860 - Paul Nipkow, inventor, television pioneer
1862 - Claude Debussy, composer (d. 1918)
1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and Muesli inventor (d. 1939)
1874 - Max Scheler, philosopher
1880 - George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, writer (d. 1967)

1900-1999

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 (1976-1983) (d. 1997)
1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photojournalist (d. 2004)
1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1917 - John Lee Hooker, blues guitarist/singer (d. 2001)
1920 - Ray Bradbury, science fiction author and fantasy author (Fahrenheit 451)
1920 - Doctor Denton Cooley, heart surgeon
1924 - James Kirkwood Jr. , novelist (d. 1989)
1927 - Honor Blackman, actress
1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer
1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf, US general
1935 - E. Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize winning author
1938 - Paul Maguire, American football player
1939 - George Reinholt, soap opera actor
1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, Baseball Hall of Famer
1940 - Valerie Harper, actress
1941 - Bill Parcells, NFL coach
1942 - Kathy Lennon, singer
1947 - Cindy Williams, actress
1955 - Will Shetterly , fantasy author
1956 - Paul Molitor, Baseball Hall of Famer
1957 - Steve Davis, English snooker player
1958 - Colm Feore, actor (Pearl Harbor, Chicago, The Chronicles of Riddick)
1958 - Vernon Reid, musician (Living Colour)
1960 - Debbi Peterson , drummer (The Bangles)
1961 - Roland Orzabal , singer, guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1963 - Tori Amos, singer/songwriter, pianist
1964 - Mats Wilander, tennis player
1991 - Austin Desadier , singer/songwriter, pianist

Deaths

Holidays and observances

External links

BBC: On This Day

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Events

1400-1899

1900-1999

2000-2099

Births

1600-1899

1900-1999

Deaths

400-1899

1900-1999

2000-2099

Holidays and observances

External links