About August 22
August 22, 2025 is the 234th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 179 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 22
- 565 –St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
- 1138 –Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
- 1559 –Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
- 1654 –Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
- 1851 –The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
- 1864 –12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
- 1875 –The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
- 1902 –Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
- 1910 –Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
- 1914 –World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
- 1922 –Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na mBláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
- 1932 –The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
- 1934 –Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
- 1941 –World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
- 1944 –World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
- 1949 –Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada’s largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
- 1952 –The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
- 1963 –American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km.
- 1989 –The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
- 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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