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August 22

Events

392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
476 - Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
565 - St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
851 - Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
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.
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.
1717 - Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
1775 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
1780 - James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1827 - José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
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 were killed in retaliation for the uprising.
1848 - The United States annexes New Mexico.
1849 - The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
1901 - Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
1914 - World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1926 - Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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.
1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
1944 - World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
1949 - Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
1962 - The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
1963 - Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km (67 miles).
1966 - Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
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.
1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1978 - The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
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.
2007 - The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
2007 - The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day

Births

1601 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712)
1679 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
1760 - Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
1764 - Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
1771 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
1773 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
1779 - James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
1800 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
1800 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
1811 - William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
1822 - Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
1827 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
1836 - Archibald MacNeal Willard, American artist (d. 1918)
1845 - William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
1848 - Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1857 - Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
1860 - Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940)
1860 - Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917)
1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
1873 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
1874 - Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928)
1880 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1880 - Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
1887 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977)
1891 - Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
1893 - Wilfred Kitching, British Salvation Army general (d. 1977)
1895 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
1900 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
1902 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
1909 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1909 - Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
1909 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
1915 - David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004)
1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1915 - James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
1915 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
1917 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (d. 2001)
1918 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
1920 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
1920 - Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
1922 - Micheline Presle, French actress
1925 - Honor Blackman, English actress
1925 - James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
1928 - Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate
1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
1930 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
1934 - Sir Donald McIntyre, English bass-baritone
1935 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
1936 - Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
1938 - Paul Maguire, American football commentator
1939 - George Reinholt, American actor
1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player
1940 - Valerie Harper, American actress
1940 - Bill McCartney, American football coach
1941 - Bill Parcells, American football coach
1941 - Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
1942 - Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
1943 - Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
1945 - Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer (The Archies)
1945 - Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
1947 - Cindy Williams, American actress
1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1948 - Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
1949 - Diana Nyad, American swimmer
1949 - Doug Bair, baseball player
1949 - Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic writer
1949 - Alfred Musema, Rwandan genocidaire
1950 - Ray Burris, baseball player
1950 - I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, White House Chief of Staff
1951 - Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
1952 - Peter Laughner, American musician (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
1953 - Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
1955 - Chiranjeevi, Telugu film actor
1956 - Paul Molitor, baseball player
1957 - Steve Davis, English snooker player
1958 - Colm Feore, American actor
1958 - Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
1959 - Juan Croucier, American musician
1959 - Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
1961 - Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears)
1961 - Debbi Peterson, American musician (The Bangles)
1963 - Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter
1963 - Terry Catledge, American basketball player
1964 - Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
1965 - Tom Gibis, American voice actor
1966 - Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
1966 - GZA, American rapper
1966 - Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer
1967 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
1967 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
1967 - Ant, American comedian
1967 - Ty Burrell, American actor
1967 - Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
1967 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
1968 - Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
1968 - Casper Christensen, Danish comedian
1968 - Rich Lowry, American magazine editor
1968 - Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
1968 - Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008)
1970 - Charlie Connelly, English writer
1970 - Giada De Laurentiis, Italian/American chef and television host
1971 - Richard Armitage, English actor
1971 - Rick Yune, American actor
1972 - Steve Kline, American baseball player
1972 - Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
1972 - Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
1973 - Kristen Wiig, American comedian
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1974 - Brimstone, American professional wrestler
1974 - Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
1974 - Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist
1975 - Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
1975 - Sheree Murphy, British actress
1975 - Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
1977 - Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
1977 - Jenna Leigh Green, American actress
1978 - Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 - Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor
1979 - Matt Walters, American football player
1980 - Christi Shake, American model and actress
1980 - Roland Benschneider, German footballer
1980 - Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete
1981 - Alex Holmes, American football player
1983 - Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
1983 - Laura Breckenridge, American actress
1984 - Lee Camp, English footballer
1986 - Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress