Wikipedia: August 22

August 22
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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 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 - The Mona Lisa is stolen
1914 - In Belgium, British and German troops meet for the first time in World War I
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 Bogota, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America
1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee 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
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.

Births

1647 - Denis Papin, inventor of the piston steam engine
1760 - Pope Leo XII
1771 - Henry Maudslay, inventor and tool-maker
1854 - King Milan I of Serbia
1860 - Paul Nipkow, inventor, television pioneer
1862 - Claude Debussy, composer (+ 1918)
1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and Muesli inventor (+ 1939)
1874 - Max Scheler, philosopher
1880 - George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, writer (+ 1967)
1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, film director (+ 2003)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (1976-1983) (+ 1997)
1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (+ 2000)
1917 - John Lee Hooker, blues guitarist/singer (+ 2001)
1920 - Ray Bradbury, science fiction author and fantasy author (Fahrenheit 451)
1920 - Doctor Denton Cooley, heart surgeon
1924 - James Kirkwood Jr, novelist (+ 1989)
1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer
1929 - Honor Blackman, actress
1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf, US general
1935 - E. Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize winning author
1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, Baseball Hall of Famer
1940 - Valerie Harper, actress
1947 - Cindy Williams, actress
1955 - Will Shetterly, fantasy author
1956 - Paul Molitor, Baseball Hall of Famer
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

Deaths

408 - Stilicho, military strongman of the Roman Empire (legal murder)
1188 - King Ferdinand II of Leon
1280 - Pope Nicholas III
1286 - Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark (murder)
1350 - Philip VI of France, king of France
1485 - Richard III of England,
1553 - John Dudley, English admiral and politician (beheaded)
1818 - Warren Hastings, governor-general of India (1773-1784)
1891 - Jan Neruda, author
1903 - Robert Salisbury, British prime minister
1904 - Kate Chopin, author
1912 - Pope Gregory IX
1922 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (killed in an ambush)
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

Holidays and observances

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