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
- 392 –Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
- 1642 –Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
- 1711 –Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker’s Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
- 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.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
- 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.
- 1849 –The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
- 1864 –12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
- 1902 –Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
- 1932 –The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
- 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
- 1961 –Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
- 2006 –Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
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