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
- 851 –Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
- 1559 –Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
- 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.
- 1654 –Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
- 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).
- 1827 –José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
- 1848 –The United States annexes New Mexico.
- 1875 –The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
- 1902 –Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
- 1944 –World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
- 1952 –The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
- 1971 –J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
- 1989 –Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
- 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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