About August 22

August 22, 2021 is the 234th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 163 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On August 22

  • 565 –
    St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
  • 1138 –
    Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
  • 1485 –
    The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
  • 1559 –
    Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
  • 1642 –
    Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
  • 1777 –
    American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 1944 –
    World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
  • 1950 –
    Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
  • 1961 –
    Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
  • 1962 –
    An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
  • 1971 –
    J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
  • 1992 –
    FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
  • 2007 –
    The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day

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