August 22

Events392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.476 - Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.565 - St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.1138 - Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field death of Richard III and end of the House of Plantagenet.1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers.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 known Jewish immigrant to America.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 HMS 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 Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.1827 - José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.1831 - Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.1848 - The United States annexes New Mexico.1849 - First air raid in history. Austria launched pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.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 illicitly 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.1932 - The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. See also Timeline of the BBC 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: 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.1944 - World War II: Romania captured by the Soviet Union.1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.1955 - 11 schoolchildren were killed, when their school bus was hit by a freight train, in Spring City, Tennessee.1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.1962 - The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.1963 - Joe Walker in X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles).1964 - Match Of The Day hits the air on BBC Two.1966 - Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.1971 - J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State. 1978 - The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.1988 - The Perth Mint issues the first platinum coin, the koala.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 5,000 strikeouts.1991 - Trish Keogh was born.1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was 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.2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.2006 - Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes, killing 170 people.2007 - The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
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