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
- 565 –St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
- 1770 –James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
- 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.
- 1848 –The United States annexes New Mexico.
- 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.
- 1914 –World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
- 1926 –Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 1932 –The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
- 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
- 1962 –The NS Savannah, the world’s first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
- 1966 –Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
- 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.
- 1992 –FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
- 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.
- 2006 –Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
- 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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