What happened on August 22? There are more than 306 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About August 22
August 22 is the 235th day of the year 2024. There are 131 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 34th week of the year 2024.
On this day in East Chatham, New York 12060 sunrise will occur at 06:07 AM and sunset will occur at 07:45 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Leo. The modern birthstone for this month is Peridot while the mystical birthstone is Diamond.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 160 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For August 22
- 392Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
- 476Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
- 565St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
- 851Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
- 1138Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
- 1485The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
- 1559Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
- 1639Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
- 1642Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
- 1654Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
- 1711Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker’s Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
- 1717Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
- 1770James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
- 1777American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
- 1780James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
- 1791Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
- 1798French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen’s Irish Rebellion.
- 1827José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
- 1831Nat Turner’s slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
- 1848The United States annexes New Mexico.
- 1849The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
- 1851The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
- 186412 nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
- 1875The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
- 1902Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
- 1902Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
- 1910Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
- 1914World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
- 1922Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na mBláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
- 1926Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 1932The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
- 1934Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
- 1941World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
- 1942World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
- 1944World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
- 1944World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
- 1949Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada’s largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
- 1950Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
- 1952The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
- 1961Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
- 1962An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
- 1962The NS Savannah, the world’s first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
- 1963American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km.
- 1966Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
- 1968Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
- 1971J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
- 1972Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
- 1978The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
- 1985Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
- 1989Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
- 1989The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
- 1992FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
- 1996Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
- 2003Alabama Chief Justice 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.
- 2004A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
- 2006Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
- 2007The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
- 2007The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
Who Were Born On August 22?
- 1601Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
- 1624Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
- 1647Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712)
- 1679Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
- 1760Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
- 1764Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
- 1771Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
- 1773Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
- 1779James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
- 1800Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
- 1800William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
- 1811William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
- 1822Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
- 1827Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
- 1834Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
- 1836Archibald MacNeal Willard, American artist (d. 1918)
- 1845William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
- 1848Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
- 1854Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
- 1857Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
- 1860Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917)
- 1860Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940)
- 1862Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1867Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
- 1873Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
- 1874Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928)
- 1880George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
- 1880Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
- 1887Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977)
- 1891Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973)
- 1893Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
- 1893Wilfred Kitching, British Salvation Army general (d. 1977)
- 1895László Almásy, Hungarian aristocrat and aviator (d. 1951)
- 1895Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
- 1900Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
- 1902Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
- 1902Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
- 1904Deng Xiaoping, Chinese statesman (d. 1997)
- 1908Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (d. 1993)
- 1908Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- 1909Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
- 1909Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
- 1909Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
- 1912John Lee Hooker, American musician (d. 2001)
- 1913Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
- 1913Leonard Pagliero, British stationer (d. 2008)
- 1915David Dellinger, American social rights activist (d. 2004)
- 1915Edward Szczepanik, Polish politician (d. 2005)
- 1915Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
- 1915James Hillier, Canadian-born American scientist and inventor (d. 2007)
- 1918Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
- 1920Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
- 1920Ray Bradbury, American writer
- 1921Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
- 1922Micheline Presle, French actress
- 1922Theoni V. Aldredge, Greek-American stage and screen costume designer (d. 2011)
- 1925Honor Blackman, English actress
- 1925James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
- 1928Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
- 1928Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate
- 1930Gilmar, Brazilian football player
- 1932Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
- 1934Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
- 1934Sir Donald McIntyre, English bass-baritone
- 1935E. Annie Proulx, American author
- 1936Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
- 1936John Callaway, American journalist (d. 2009)
- 1936Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer
- 1938Paul Maguire, American football commentator
- 1939Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
- 1939George Reinholt, American actor
- 1939Valerie Harper, American actress
- 1940Bill McCartney, American football coach
- 1941Bill Parcells, American football coach
- 1941Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
- 1942Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
- 1943Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
- 1944Peter Hofmann, Czech-born German operatic tenor (d. 2010)
- 1945Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
- 1945Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer (The Archies)
- 1947Cindy Williams, American actress
- 1947Donna Godchaux, American singer (Grateful Dead)
- 1948Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
- 1949Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic writer
- 1949Diana Nyad, American swimmer
- 1949Doug Bair, baseball player
- 1950Lewis Libby, American White House Chief of Staff for George W. Bush
- 1950Ray Burris, American baseball player
- 1951Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
- 1952Peter Laughner, American musician (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
- 1953Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
- 1955Chiranjeevi, Indian film actor
- 1955Will Shetterly, American writer
- 1956Paul Molitor, baseball player
- 1957Steve Davis, English snooker player
- 1958Colm Feore, American actor
- 1958Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
- 1958Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
- 1959Juan Croucier, American musician
- 1959Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
- 1960Holger Gehrke, German footballer
- 1961Andres Calamaro, Argentine musician
- 1961Debbi Peterson, American musician (The Bangles)
- 1961Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears)
- 1963Terry Catledge, American basketball player
- 1963Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter
- 1964Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
- 1964Tom Gibis, American voice actor
- 1965Chen Liping, Singaporean actress
- 1965Courtney Gains, American actor
- 1966Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
- 1966GZA, American rapper
- 1966Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer
- 1967Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
- 1967Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
- 1967Ant, American comedian
- 1967Bill Welke, American baseball umpire
- 1967Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
- 1967Ty Burrell, American actor
- 1967Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
- 1968Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
- 1968Casper Christensen, Danish comedian
- 1968Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008)
- 1968Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
- 1968Rich Lowry, American magazine editor
- 1970Charlie Connelly, English writer
- 1970Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-born American chef and television host
- 1970Tímea Nagy, Hungarian fencer
- 1971Craig Finn, American musician (The Hold Steady)
- 1971Richard Armitage, English actor
- 1971Rick Yune, American actor
- 1972Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
- 1972Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
- 1972Paul Doucette, American drummer (Matchbox 20)
- 1972Steve Kline, American baseball player
- 1973Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1973Kristen Wiig, American comedian
- 1974Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
- 1974Brimstone, American professional wrestler
- 1974Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist
- 1975Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
- 1975Davor Krznarić, Croatian footballer
- 1975Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
- 1975Sheree Murphy, British actress
- 1976Randy Wolf, American baseball player
- 1977Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
- 1977Jenna Leigh Green, American actress
- 1978Ed Petrie, British television presenter
- 1978Giannis Gagaloudis, Greek basketball player
- 1978Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1979Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor
- 1979Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian-born actress
- 1979Matt Walters, American football player
- 1980Christi Shake, American model and actress
- 1980Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete
- 1980Roland Benschneider, German footballer
- 1981Alex Holmes, American football player
- 1981Saito Takumi, Japanese actor and model
- 1983Laura Breckenridge, American actress
- 1983Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
- 1984Lawrence Quaye, Ghanaian–Qatari footballer
- 1984Lee Camp, English footballer
- 1985Jonathan Solofa Fatu, American wrestler
- 1985Joshua Samuel Fatu, American wrestler
- 1985Kether Donahue, American voice actress
- 1986Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress
- 1987Leonardo Moracci, Italian footballer
- 1991Brayden Schenn, Canadian hockey player
- 1991Federico Macheda, Italian footballer
- 1999Dakota Goyo, Canadian Actor
Who Died On August 22?
- 408Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
- 1155Emperor Konoe, of Japan (b. 1139)
- 1188Ferdinand II, King of León (b. 1137)
- 1241Pope Gregory IX, (b. c.1143)
- 1280Pope Nicholas III (b. c.1216)
- 1304John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
- 1350Philip VI, King of France (b. 1293)
- 1358Isabella, Queen of England (b. c. 1295)
- 1485King Richard III of England (b. 1452)
- 1553John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English admiral and politician (b. 1504)
- 1572Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
- 1584Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
- 1599Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c.1553)
- 1607Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
- 1609Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
- 1652Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
- 1680John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
- 1701John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
- 1711Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
- 1752William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
- 1773George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
- 1793Cäcilia Weber, German mother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1727)
- 1793Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
- 1797Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
- 1806Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
- 1818Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
- 1828Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
- 1850Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
- 1861Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
- 1888Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian politician (b. 1817)
- 1891Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
- 1903Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
- 1904Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1850)
- 1909Henry Radcliffe Crocker, British dermatologist (b. 1846)
- 1914Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure (b. 1859)
- 1918Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
- 1922Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)
- 1926Charles William Eliot, American University president (b. 1834)
- 1940Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
- 1942Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
- 1946Döme Sztójay, Hungarian soldier and diplomat (b. 1883)
- 1950Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
- 1951J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1884)
- 1953Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
- 1958Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- 1960Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
- 1965Ellen Church, American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
- 1967Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
- 1970Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
- 1973Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895)
- 1974Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)
- 1976Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
- 1976Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
- 1977Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
- 1978Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya (b. c.1892)
- 1979James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
- 1980Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
- 1980James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
- 1989Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
- 1989Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
- 1991Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
- 1994Gilles Groulx, French-Canadian film director (b. 1931)
- 2003Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
- 2003Generosa Ammon, American widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
- 2003Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
- 2004Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (b. 1922)
- 2004Daniel Petrie, Canadian television and movie director (b. 1920)
- 2004Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
- 2004Sir Angus Bethune, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1908)
- 2005Ernest Kirkendall, American scientist (b. 1914)
- 2005Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
- 2006Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
- 2008Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1899)
- 2009Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (b. 1926)
- 2010Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav football player (b. 1923)
- 2011Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
- 2011Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (b. 1933)
- 2011Nick Ashford, American songwriter (b. 1942)
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