August 22

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 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.
• 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.

Births

• 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
• 1991 – Austin Desadier, singer, songwriter, and pianist

Deaths

• 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 observances

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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