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
- 392 –Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
- 476 –Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1791 –Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
- 1849 –The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
- 1944 –World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
- 1944 –World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
- 1952 –The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
- 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.
- 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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