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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.
Events
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 expion 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 in Saint-Domingue
1798 - French troops land in County Mayo , Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone 's United Irishmen 's 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 .
1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands .
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 with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty . The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon .
1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered
1914 - World War I : In Belgium , British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1922 - Michael Collins , Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War .
1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg , South Africa
1941 - World War II : German troops reach Leningrad , leading to the siege of Leningrad
1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany , Italy and Japan )
1944 - World War II: Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany
1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 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 NS 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
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 shoots and kills 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 , the painting by Edvard Munch , is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo , Norway .
Births
1601 - Georges de Scudéry , French writer (d. 1667 )
1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais , French writer (d. 1701 )
1647 - Denis Papin , French physicist, mathematician, and inventor
1679 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin , French cardinal (d. 1758 )
1760 - Pope Leo XII (d. 1829 )
1764 - Charles Percier , French architect (d. 1838 )
1771 - Henry Maudslay , English inventor and tool-maker (d. 1831 )
1800 - William S. Harney , U.S. general (d. 1889 )
1802 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard , American land speculator (d. 1886 )
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley , American astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer (died in 1906 )
1854 - King Milan I of Serbia (d. 1901 )
1860 - Paul Nipkow , German inventor and television pioneer (d. 1940 )
1862 - Claude Debussy , French composer (d. 1918 )
1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner , Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939 )
1873 - Alexander Bogdanov , Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928 )
1874 - Max Scheler , German philosopher (d. 1928 )
1880 - George Herriman , American cartoonist (d. 1944 )
1893 - Dorothy Parker , American writer (d. 1967 )
1900 - Sergei Ozhegov , Russian lexicographer (d. 1964 )
1902 - Leni Riefenstahl , German 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 )
1915 - Edward Szczepanik , Economist and Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005 )
1917 - John Lee Hooker , American guitarist and singer (d. 2001 )
1920 - Ray Bradbury , American writer
1920 - Denton Cooley , American heart surgeon
1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen , German composer
1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf , U.S. general
1935 - E. Annie Proulx , American author
1938 - Paul Maguire , American football player
1939 - George Reinholt , American actor
1939 - Carl Yastrzemski , baseball player
1940 - Valerie Harper , American actress
1941 - Bill Parcells , American football coach
1942 - Kathy Lennon , American singer (The Lennon Sisters )
1947 - Cindy Williams , American actress
1955 - Will Shetterly , writer
1956 - Paul Molitor , baseball player
1957 - Steve Davis , English snooker player
1958 - Colm Feore , American-born actor
1958 - Vernon Reid , American musician (Living Colour )
1961 - Roland Orzabal , singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears )
1963 - Tori Amos , American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1964 - Mats Wilander , Swedish tennis player
1966 - GZA , American rapper
1967 - Layne Staley , American musician (Alice in Chains ) (d. 2002 )
1970 - Charlie Connelly , English writer
1973 - Howie Dorough , American singer (Backstreet Boys )
Deaths
408 - Stilicho , Roman general (b. 359 )
1155 - Emperor Konoe of Japan (b. 1139 )
1188 - King Ferdinand II of Leon
1241 - Pope Gregory IX
1280 - Pope Nicholas III
1286 - Erik V Klipping , King of Denmark (murdered) (b. 1249 )
1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247 )
1350 - King Philip VI of France (b. 1293 )
1485 - King Richard III of England (killed in battle) (b. 1452 )
1553 - John Dudley , English admiral and politician (beheaded) (b. 1501 )
1584 - Jan Kochanowski , Polish writer (b. 1530 )
1599 - Beatrice Cenci , Italian noblewoman who conspired to murder her father (b. 1577 )
1599 - Luca Marenzio , Italian composer
1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold , English explorer and privateer (b. 1572 )
1609 - Maharal of Prague , Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525 )
1652 - Jacob De la Gardie , Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583 )
1680 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613 )
1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath , English royalist statesman (b. 1628 )
1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers , French marshal (b. 1644 )
1752 - William Whiston , English mathematician (b. 1667 )
1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard , French artist (b. 1732 )
1818 - Warren Hastings , British Governor-General of India (b. 1732 )
1823 - Lazare Carnot , French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753 )
1861 - Xianfeng , Emperor of China (b. 1831 )
1891 - Jan Neruda , Czech author (b. 1834 )
1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830 )
1904 - Kate Chopin , American author (b. 1851 )
1922 - Michael Collins , Irish revolutionary (ambushed) (b. 1890 )
1926 - Charles W. Eliot , American President of Harvard University (b. 1834 )
1942 - Michel Fokine , Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880 )
1953 - Jim Tabor , baseball player (b. 1916 )
1958 - Roger Martin du Gard , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881 )
1977 - Sebastian Cabot , English-born actor (b. 1918 )
1978 - Jomo Kenyatta , first Prime Minister of Kenya
1989 - Huey P. Newton , American activist (b. 1942 )
1991 - Colleen Dewhurst , Canadian actress (b. 1924 )
2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler , Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. 1914 )
2004 - Konstantin Aseev , Russian chess player (b. 1960 )
2005 - Luc Ferrari , French composer (b. 1929 )
Holidays and observances
RC feasts - Mary queen of angels
Be an Angel Day
External links
August 21 - August 23 - July 22 - September 22 -- listing of all days
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