About August 22
August 22, 2020 is the 235th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 174 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 22
- 851 –Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
- 1485 –The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
- 1711 –Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker’s Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
- 1780 –James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
- 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.
- 1848 –The United States annexes New Mexico.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1926 –Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 1944 –World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
- 1950 –Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
- 1952 –The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
- 1961 –Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
- 1963 –American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km.
- 1968 –Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
- 1972 –Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
- 1985 –Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
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