Notable Historical Events on August 22nd
August 22nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
392 |
Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. |
476 |
Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop. |
565 |
St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness |
851 |
Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. |
1138 |
English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard |
1454 |
Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus |
1485 |
Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle War of the Roses |
1543 |
Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren |
1559 |
Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic |
1572 |
Failed assassination on Gaspard de Coligny, a French nobleman and admiral, a Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion |
1582 |
King James IV of Scotland captured |
1603 |
1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam |
1614 |
Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt |
1632 |
Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht |
1639 |
Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers. |
1642 |
Civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament |
1654 |
Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree, one ot the first Jewish colonists |
1707 |
Prince Eugenius van Savoye siege of Toulon |
1707 |
Sweden & Prussia sign military treaty |
1717 |
Spanish troops lands on Sardinia |
1762 |
1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury |
1770 |
James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia. |
1775 |
King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion |
1780 |
Resolution, without Captain Cook, returns to England |
1787 |
John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton |
1788 |
Sierra Leone settled by British as a haven for former slaves |
1791 |
Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman |
1798 |
French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion. |
1826 |
Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah |
1827 |
José de La Mar becomes President of Peru. |
1848 |
The United States annexes New Mexico |
1849 |
The first air raid in history; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice. |
1851 |
Gold fields discovered in Australia |
1851 |
Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup) |
1862 |
Battle of Catlett's Station, VA |
1862 |
Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely |
1864 |
First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" |
1865 |
William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap |
1867 |
Fisk University forms, 1867 |
1875 |
The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands. |
1877 |
Nez Perce-indians flee into Yellowstone National Park |
1894 |
Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal |
1901 |
Cadillac Motor Company is founded. |
1902 |
Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car |
1906 |
1st Victor Victrola manufactured |
1907 |
Colin Buchanan, town planner |
1907 |
Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist |
1910 |
Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate |
1911 |
Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913) |
1912 |
England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament |
1912 |
Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya) |
1913 |
Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn |
1914 |
Battle at Charleroi begins: Gen von Bulows troops beat French |
1914 |
1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium) |
1914 |
Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny & Virton |
1914 |
Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent |
1914 |
General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia |
1914 |
German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium |
1914 |
Von Ludendorff & von Hindenburg move into East Prussia enroute to Russia |
1917 |
Pittsburgh Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers |
1921 |
J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI |
1923 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4) |
1926 |
Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa |
1926 |
Greek dictator Gen Pangulos driven out |
1927 |
Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers |
1930 |
Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test |
1932 |
BBC begins experimental regular TV broadcasts |
1933 |
Bill Veeck urges midsummer inter-league games & a split season |
1933 |
International Zionists Congress opens in Prague |
1934 |
Australia beat England by 562 runs to regain Cricket Ashes |
1934 |
Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12 |
1939 |
Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion |
1939 |
Premier De Geer recalls Dutch holidaymakers in Black Forest |
1941 |
Nazi troops reach Lenningrad |
1942 |
Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy |
1943 |
Soviet troops free Karkov |
1944 |
Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed [or 23rd] |
1944 |
Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1945 |
Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford |
1945 |
England defeat Aust Services by 6 wkts in 5th Victory Test Cricket |
1945 |
Noel Coward's revue "Sigh no More" premieres in London |
1945 |
Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup |
1946 |
Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it |
1946 |
Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55) |
1947 |
14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chi Bears 0 (105,840) |
1950 |
Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50) |
1950 |
Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in a US national tennis competition |
1950 |
Rotterdam dock strike ends |
1951 |
Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052 |
1952 |
The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. |
1953 |
John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union |
1953 |
Shah of Iran returns to Teheran |
1954 |
WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Elvis Presley begins filming "The Reno Brothers" (Love Me Tender) |
1956 |
Pres Eisenhower & VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF |
1957 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
1958 |
Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return |
1958 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1959 |
Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs |
1960 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open |
1960 |
Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352 |
1961 |
Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers |
1962 |
Failed assassination on French president Charles de Gaulle |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga |
1963 |
NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km) |
1963 |
The X-15 rocket plane achieves a world record altitude of 354,200 feet (107,960 m, 67 miles) |
1964 |
Guinee, Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market |
1964 |
Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go" reaches #1 |
1965 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open |
1965 |
San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marachal hits LA Dodger catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl |
1966 |
Beatles arrive in NYC |
1968 |
1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a Eucharistic congress. |
1968 |
The Society of Labour Lawyers (SLL) publishes an 'interim report' about alleged discrimination in Northern Ireland; the report is heavily criticised by unionists. |
1969 |
Beatles record a video for "Long & Winding Road" |
1969 |
Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America |
1971 |
Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, pres Torres driven out |
1971 |
Pam Barnett wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open |
1971 |
J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. |
1971 |
Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation on district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial) |
1972 |
Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies. |
1972 |
IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs post at Newry, County Down - 9 people, including three members of the IRA and five Catholic civilians, are killed in the explosion |
1973 |
Chilean parliament accuses pres Allende violating laws |
1973 |
Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as min of Foreign affairs |
1975 |
McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens |
1976 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
1978 |
Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua |
1979 |
200 black leaders meet in NY to support Andrew Young |
1980 |
Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale |
1980 |
Leaders of Port Elizabeth's Black secondary school children in South Africa decided to end a four month boycott of classes |
1982 |
Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence |
1982 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf |
1984 |
Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec |
1984 |
Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced |
1984 |
Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200 |
1984 |
Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Reagan & VP Bush |
1984 |
The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycotts of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament |
1985 |
30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11 |
1985 |
Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed |
1986 |
Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734 (Cameroon) |
1986 |
NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics |
1987 |
Madonna's "Who's That Girl" single goes #1 |
1988 |
Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala) |
1988 |
NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee) |
1988 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1989 |
1st complete ring around Neptune discovered |
1989 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson) |
1990 |
President Bush calls up military reserves |
1991 |
Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke (1:00.31) |
1992 |
Matthews & Warne spin Australia to a famous win v Sri Lanka |
1992 |
FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. |
1993 |
"In the Summer House" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 25 perfs |
1993 |
Hiromi Kobayash wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic |
1994 |
DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman |
1994 |
Wim Cook government forms in Netherlands |
1995 |
FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho |
1996 |
ANC makes its first submission to Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) |
2003 |
Alabama 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. |
2004 |
A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. |
2007 |
The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history. |
2007 |
The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day |
2012 |
47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war |
2012 |
48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma |
2012 |
Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization |
2013 |
14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq |
2016 |
US Romps to Men's Basketball Gold, Beats Serbia 96-66 |
2017 |
USS McCain the 4th Navy warship to crash in Asia this year |
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