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
- 476 –Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
- 565 –St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
- 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.
- 1851 –The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
- 1902 –Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
- 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.
- 1934 –Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
- 1944 –World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
- 1968 –Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
- 1978 –The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
- 1985 –Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
- 1996 –Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
- 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.
- 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.
- 2007 –The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
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