About August 22
August 22, 2024 is the 235th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 160 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 22
- 476 –Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
- 1485 –The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
- 1711 –Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker’s Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
- 1780 –James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
- 1798 –French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen’s Irish Rebellion.
- 1831 –Nat 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.
- 1864 –12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
- 1902 –Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
- 1934 –Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
- 1944 –World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
- 1952 –The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
- 1962 –The NS Savannah, the world’s first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
- 1963 –American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km.
- 1978 –The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
- 1989 –Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
- 1989 –The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
- 1996 –Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
- 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 Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
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