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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1848 –The United States annexes New Mexico.
- 1864 –12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
- 1914 –World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
- 1941 –World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
- 1950 –Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
- 1963 –American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km.
- 1972 –Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
- 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.
- 1992 –FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
- 1996 –Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
- 2006 –Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
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