August 22
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August 22 is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 130 days remaining after August 22 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1647 – Denis Papin, French inventor (pressure cooker) (d. around 1712)
- 1760 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
- 1771 – Henry Maudslay, inventor and tool-maker (d. 1831)
- 1800 – William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
- 1822 – Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
- 1854 – King Milan I of Serbia (d. 1901)
- 1860 – Paul Nipkow, inventor and television pioneer (d. 1940)
- 1862 – Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1867 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
- 1874 – Max Scheler, philosopher (d. 1928)
- 1880 – George Herriman, cartoonist (d. 1944)
- 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)
- 1906 – Stig Wennerstrom, Swedish spy (d. 2006)
- 1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- 1915 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
- 1915 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
- 1917 – John Lee Hooker, American blues guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
- 1918 – Said Mohamed Djohar, President of the Comoros (d. 2006)
- 1920 – Ray Bradbury, American writer
- 1920 – Doctor Denton Cooley, heart surgeon
- 1924 – James Kirkwood Jr., novelist (d. 1989)
- 1925 – Honor Blackman, British actress
- 1928 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer
- 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, American Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1940 – Valerie Harper, American actress
- 1941 – Bill Parcells, American football coach
- 1942 – Kathy Lennon, American singer
- 1947 – Cindy Williams, actress
- 1950 – Lewis Libby, American White House counsel
- 1955 – Will Shetterly, writer
- 1956 – Paul Molitor, American 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, Swedish tennis player
- 1967 – Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
- 1967 – Adewode Akinnouye-Agbaje, British actor
- 1971 – Richard Armitage, British actor
- 1973 – Kristin Wiig, actress
- 1975 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
- 1978 – Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1981 – Alex Holmes, American Football player
- 1991 – Federico Macheda, Italian footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1241 – Pope Gregory IX
- 1350 – King Philip VI of France (b. 1293)
- 1485 – King Richard III of England (b. 1452)
- 1806 – Jean-Honore Fragonard, French painter (b. 1732)
- 1861 – Xianfeng, Chinese Emperor (b. 1830)
- 1891 – Jan Neruda, Czech writer (b. 1834)
- 1922 – Michael Collins, Irish political leader (b. 1890)
- 1958 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer (b. 1881)
- 1961 – Ida Siekmann, victim of the Berlin Wall (b. 1902)
- 1976 – Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
- 1977 – Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
- 1978 – Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (b. 1891)
- 1989 – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer (b. 1906)
- 1989 – Huey Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
- 2003 – Imperio Argentina, Argentine singer and actress (b. 1906)
- 2010 – Stjepan Bobek, Croatian footballer (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Jack Layton, Canadian politician, leader of the New Democratic Party (b. 1950)
- 2011 – Vicco von Buelow (Loriot), German humorist, cartoonist, actor and writer (b. 1923)
[change] 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 an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork during the Irish Civil War.
- 1926 – Gold is 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 and 4 Frenchmen tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with six tanks and two self-propelled guns), at La Madeleine, 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.
- 1971 – Hugo Banzer takes power in Bolivia.
- 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.
- 2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes in eastern Ukraine, killing 170 people.
- 2007 – Major League Baseball: The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3.
- 2011 – 2011 Libyan civil war: Rebel forces advance on Tripoli, and three sons of the military ruler Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi are reported to have been taken into custody, as the war enters its final phase.
[change] Observances
- Flag Day (Russia)
