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What Happened on August 22nd This Day in History

Year	Name
2012	Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
2007	The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.
2006	Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
2006	Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.
2004	Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
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.
1999	China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more.
1992	FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1991	Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
1989	Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1985	British 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.
1981	Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed.
1978	Nicaraguan Revolution: The FLSN seizes the National Congress of Nicaragua, along with over a thousand hostages.
1978	The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a sufficient number of states.
1973	The 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.
1972	Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1971	J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
1968	Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1966	Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
1963	X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)).
1962	The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
1953	The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1949	The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
1944	World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
1942	Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy.
1941	World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.
1934	Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only test cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
1922	Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.
1902	The Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902	Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
1902	At least 6,000 people are killed by the magnitude 7.7 Kashgar earthquake in the Tien Shan mountains.
1894	Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
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, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
1851	The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1849	The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
1849	Passaleão 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 after.
1846	The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
1827	José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
1798	French troops land at Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid the rebellion.
1791	The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
1780	James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1777	British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
1770	James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.
1717	Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
1711	Britain's Quebec Expedition loses eight ships and almost nine hundred soldiers, sailors and women to rocks at Pointe-aux-Anglais.
1654	Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
1642	Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.
1639	Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1614	Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.
1559	Spanish archbishop Bartolomé Carranza is arrested for heresy.
1485	The Battle of Bosworth Field occurs; Richard III dies, marking the end of the House of Plantagenet.
1138	Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
851	Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
392	Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.

Famous People Born on August 22

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Year	Name
1936	Chuck Brown, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2012)
1953	Paul Ellering, American weightlifter, wrestler, and manager
1986	Stephen Ireland, Irish footballer
1778	James Kirke Paulding, American poet, playwright, and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1860)
1570	Franz von Dietrichstein, Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (d. 1636)
1975	Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
1896	Laurence McKinley Gould, American geologist, educator, and polar explorer (d. 1995)
1771	Henry Maudslay, English engineer (d. 1831)
1874	Max Scheler, German philosopher and author (d. 1928)
1996	Jeon So-min, South Korean singer-songwriter

Famous People Deaths On August 22

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 22. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1903	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
1280	Pope Nicholas III (b. 1225)
1850	Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (b. 1802)
1572	Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, English leader of the Rising of the North (b. 1528)
1978	Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan journalist and politician, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
1909	Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist and author (b. 1846)
1485	Richard III of England (b. 1452)
1155	Emperor Konoe of Japan (b. 1139)
1545	Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician and husband of Mary Tudor (b. c. 1484)
1358	Isabella of France (b. 1295)