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
- 392 –Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
- 476 –Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
- 851 –Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
- 1639 –Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
- 1642 –Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
- 1717 –Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
- 1791 –Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
- 1798 –French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen’s Irish Rebellion.
- 1827 –José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
- 1849 –The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
- 1875 –The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
- 1944 –World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
- 1949 –Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada’s largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
- 1950 –Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
- 1968 –Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
- 1971 –J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
- 1985 –Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
- 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.
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