August 22Birthdays & History

On this day: August 22 in history

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1. 392Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.Europe
2. 851Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland, halting the expansion of West Francia.Europe
3. 1138Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.Europe
4. 1153Crusader–Fatimid wars: The fortress of Ascalon is surrendered by Fatimid Egypt to an army of crusaders, Templars, and Hospitallers led by King Baldwin III of Jerusalem.Middle East
5. 1485The Battle of Bosworth Field occurs; King Richard III of England's death in battle marks the end of the reigning Plantagenet dynasty and the beginning of the Tudors under Henry VII.Europe
6. 1559Spanish archbishop Bartolomé Carranza is arrested for heresy.Europe
7. 1614Fettmilch uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.Europe
8. 1639Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.AsiaEurope
9. 1642Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.Europe
10. 1654Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.EuropeNorth America
11. 1703A janissary revolt forces the deposition of Ottoman sultan Mustafa II.Middle East
12. 1711Britain's Quebec Expedition loses eight ships and almost nine hundred soldiers, sailors and women to rocks at Pointe-aux-Anglais.EuropeNorth America
13. 1717Spanish troops land on Sardinia.Europe
14. 1770James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.OceaniaEurope
15. 1777British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.Europe
16. 1780James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).EuropeNorth America
17. 1791The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.Latin America
18. 1798French troops land at Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid the rebellion.Europe
19. 1827José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.Latin America
20. 1846The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.Latin America
21. 1849Passaleão incident: João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, the governor of Portuguese Macau, is assassinated by a group of Chinese locals, triggering a military confrontation between China and Portugal at the Battle of Passaleão three days later.EuropeAsia
22. 1851The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.North America
23. 1864Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.Europe
24. 1875The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.EuropeAsia
25. 1894Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.AsiaNorth America
26. 1902Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.North America
27. 1902The Cadillac Motor Company is founded.North America
28. 1902At least 6,000 people are killed by the magnitude 7.7 Kashgar earthquake in the Tien Shan mountains.Asia
29. 1922Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.Europe
30. 1934Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only test cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.Oceania
31. 1942Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy.Latin AmericaEuropeAsia
32. 1944World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.Europe
33. 1949The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.North America
34. 1953The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.Latin America
35. 1962The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.Europe
36. 1963X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)).North America
37. 1965Juan Marichal, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, strikes John Roseboro, catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, on the head with a bat, sparking a 14-minute brawl, one of the most violent on-field incidents in sports history.North America
38. 1966Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers.North America
39. 1968Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.EuropeLatin AmericaNorth America
40. 1971J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.North America
41. 1972Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.Africa
42. 1973The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.North AmericaLatin America
43. 1978The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a sufficient number of states.North America
44. 1978Nicaraguan Revolution: The FSLN seizes the National Congress of Nicaragua, along with over a thousand hostages.Latin AmericaNorth America
45. 1981Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed.Asia
46. 1985British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.Europe
47. 1989Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.North America
48. 1991Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.Europe
49. 1992FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.North America
50. 1999China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more.Asia
51. 2003Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.North America
52. 2004Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.Europe
53. 2006Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.Europe
54. 2006Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.Europe
55. 2007The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.North America
56. 2012Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.Africa

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