August 22

August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining.

Events

1400-1899

1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses

1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy

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 Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States

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 Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)

1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution

1846 - The United States annexes New Mexico

1851 - Gold is discovered in Australia

1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.

1900-1999

1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded

1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile

1910 - Japan annexes Korea

1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered

1914 - In Belgium, British and German troops meet for the first time in World War I

1923 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during and Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork during the Irish Civil War.

1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa

1941 - German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad

1942 - Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)

1944 - Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany

1944 - 32 Spaniards & 4 Frenchmen tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis wounded, 110 Germans killed, 200 wounded.

1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis

1953 - The jail on Devil's Island is closed

1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles De Gaulle fails

1962 - The Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage

1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogot�, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America

1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies

1975 - An attempt to assassinate president Gerald Ford fails

1988 - The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued

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 5000 strikeouts.

1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shot and killed Vicki Weaver during an 11 day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.