On This Day in History for August 22

Events 1 - 100 of 120

• 392 Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
• 565 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness
• 851 Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
• 1138 English defeat the Scottish at Cowton Moor, Yorkshire. Banners of various saints carried into battle - led to the name Battle of the Standard
• 1454 Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
• 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses

• 1559 Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic
• 1572 Failed assassination on Gaspard de Coligny, a French nobleman and admiral, a Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion

• 1603 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
• 1614 Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt

• 1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, founded by the British East India Company on sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers
• 1642 Civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament
• 1654 Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree, one of the first Jewish colonists
• 1707 Prince Eugenius van Savoye siege of Toulon
• 1707 Sweden & Prussia sign military treaty
• 1717 Spanish troops land on Sardinia
• 1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport, Rhode Island, Mercury

• 1775 King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
• 1780 Resolution, without Captain James Cook, returns to England
• 1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
• 1788 Sierra Leone settled by British as a haven for former slaves
• 1791 Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
• 1798 French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
• 1826 Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah
• 1827 José de La Mar becomes President of Peru
• 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 Gold fields discovered in Australia
• 1862 Battle of Catlett's Station, VA
• 1862 Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely
• 1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field"
• 1865 William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap
• 1875 The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
• 1877 Nez Perce (Niimíipu) indians flee into Yellowstone National Park

• 1901 Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

• 1906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
• 1910 Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate
• 1912 England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
• 1914 Battle at Charleroi begins: Gen von Bulows troops beat French
• 1914 1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium)
• 1914 Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny & Virton
• 1914 Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
• 1914 General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg, East Prussia
• 1914 German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines, Belgium

• 1926 Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
• 1926 Greek dictator Gen Pangulos driven out
• 1933 Bill Veeck urges midsummer inter-league games & a split season
• 1933 International Zionists Congress opens in Prague
• 1939 Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
• 1939 Premier De Geer recalls Dutch holidaymakers in Black Forest
• 1941 Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
• 1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
• 1943 Soviet troops free Karkov

• 1944 Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
• 1945 Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford
• 1945 Noel Coward's revue "Sigh no More" premieres in London

• 1950 Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50)
• 1950 Rotterdam dock strike ends
• 1952 The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• 1953 John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
• 1953 Shah of Iran returns to Tehran

• 1958 Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return
• 1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
• 1961 Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers

• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962 Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
• 1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in the X-15 rocket plane achieves a world record altitude of 354,200 feet (107,960 m, 67 miles)
• 1964 Guinee, Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market
• 1964 Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go" reaches #1
• 1968 1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a Eucharistic congress.
• 1968 The Society of Labour Lawyers (SLL) publishes an 'interim report' about alleged discrimination in Northern Ireland; the report is heavily criticised by unionists.
• 1969 Gloria O Smith (NY) crowned 2nd Miss Black America
• 1971 Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, pres Torres driven out
• 1971 J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the "Camden 28".
• 1971 Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation on district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial)
• 1972 IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs post at Newry, County Down - 9 people, including three members of the IRA and five Catholic civilians, are killed in the explosion
• 1973 Chilean parliament accuses pres Allende violating laws

• 1978 Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua
• 1979 200 black leaders meet in NY to support Andrew Young
• 1980 Leaders of Port Elizabeth's Black secondary school children in South Africa decided to end a four month boycott of classes
• 1982 Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
• 1984 Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
• 1984 Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
• 1984 The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycotts of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament
• 1985 Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at Manchester airport, 55 killed
• 1986 Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734 (Cameroon)

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 103

• 1601 Georges de Scudéry, French writer and dramatist (L'Amour tyrannique), born in The Havre, France (d. 1667)
• 1624 Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer and poet, born in Caen, France (d. 1701)
• 1647 Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine), born in Blois, France
• 1679 Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal, born in Grenoble, France (d. 1758)
• 1760 Leo XII [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), born in Genga, Marche, Italy (d. 1829)
• 1764 Charles Percier, French architect, born in Paris (d. 1838)
• 1771 Henry Maudslay, English inventor (metal lathe), born in Woolwich, London (d. 1831)
• 1773 Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist, born in La Rochelle, France (birth date disputed) (d. 1858)
• 1779 James Kirke Paulding, American author (The Dutchman's Fireside), born in Pleasant Valley, NY (d. 1860)
• 1788 Thomas Tredgold, English railway engineer and carpenter,born in Brandon, Durham, England (d. 1829)
• 1795 Abraham Capadose, Dutch physician and missionary, born in Amsterdam (d. 1874)
• 1800 William S. Harney, U.S. general, born in Madison, Tennessee (d. 1889)
• 1800 Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar, born in Trieste, Italy (d. 1865)
• 1822 George Stoneman, US Union general-major and Governor of California (1883-87), born in Busti, NY (d. 1894)
• 1822 Virginia Clemm Poe, American wife of writer Edgar Allan Poe, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1847)
• 1827 Joseph Anthony Mower, American Major General (Union Army), born in Woodstock, Vermont (d. 1870)
• 1827 Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician, born in Vermont (d. 1906)
• 1834 Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Natchez, Mississippi (d. 1900)
• 1834 Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer and pioneer aviator, born in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1906)
• 1836 Archibald M Willard, American artist (Spirit of '76), born in Bedford, Ohio (d. 1918)
• 1844 George Washington De Long, American Arctic Explorer whose disastrous expedition provided evidence to support the theory of trans-Arctic oceanic drift, born in New York City
• 1845 William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts, born in Plymouth, Massachusetts (d. 1924)
• 1846 Amalie Skram, Norwegian author (Hellemyrsfolket), born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1905)
• 1848 Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (Founder of Chicago Daily News), born in Hudson, Illinois (d. 1929)
• 1852 Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (Political Struggle in Italy), born in Faenza, Italy (d. 1909)
• 1854 Milan I, King of Serbia, born in Mărășești, Romania (d. 1901)
• 1860 Paul G. Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow Award), born in Lebork, Poland (d. 1940)
• 1860 Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria, born in Trzebiechów, Zielona Góra County, Poland (d. 1917)
• 1865 Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Eucharistic Crusade)
• 1867 Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist, born in Aarau, Switzerland (d. 1939)
• 1867 Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor (altimeter, automobile self-starter, and early television pioneer), born in Dayton, Ohio
• 1868 Willis Rodney Whitney, American Chemist, founder of the General Electric research laboratory, and pioneer of industrial scientific research, born in Jamestown, NY (d. 1958)
• 1873 Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher, born in Sokółka, Poland (d. 1928)
• 1874 Max Scheler, German philosopher (Vom Umsturz der Werte), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1928)
• 1880 George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1944)
• 1880 Gorch Fock [Johann Wilhelm Kinau], German author and poet (d. 1916)
• 1890 Floyd Henri Allport, American psychologist and sociologist, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1979)
• 1891 Jacques Lipchitz, Polish-French-American painter and cubist sculptor, born in Druskininkai, Lithuania (d. 1973)

• 1894 Ivan Isakov [Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan], Russian-Armenian military commander (Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy during World War II), born in Hadjikend, Russian Empire (d. 1967)
• 1895 Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician, born in Pierreville, Quebec (d. 1966)
• 1896 Laurence McKinley Gould, American Geologist and Polar Explorer who was chief scientist and second-in-command on the first expedition to the interior of Antarctica in 1929, born in Lacota, Michigan (d. 1995)
• 1900 Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (Russian Language Dictionary), born in Kuvshinovo, Tver Oblast, Russia (d. 1964)
• 1902 Jack Roy Armstrong, English historian (History of Sussex), born in Broadstairs, Kent (d. 1993)
• 1902 Thomas Pelly, American politician, born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1973)
• 1903 René Wellek, writer (Concepts of Criticism), Vienna, Austria

• 1907 Colin Buchanan, British town planner (Traffic in Towns), born in Simla, India (d. 2001)
• 1907 Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician and geneticist, born in Leicester, England (d. 2000)

• 1909 Stojan T Daskalov, Bulgaria, writer (A Farm)
• 1911 Somerset de Chair, British writer, MP and poet, born in Somerset (d. 1995)
• 1912 Edith Porada, art historian and archaeologist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1994)
• 1912 Richard Catling, British commissioner of police (Kenya), born in Leiston, Suffolk (d. 2005)
• 1913 Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian nuclear physicist, born in Marina di Pisa, Italy (d. 1993)
• 1913 Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn
• 1915 David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader, born in Wakefield, Massachusetts (d. 2004)
• 1915 James Hillier, Canadian-American inventor (co-created the electron microscope), born in Brantford, Canada (d. 2007)
• 1918 Mary McGrory, American journalist and columnist, born in Roslindale, Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2004)
• 1919 Earl Cathcart, British major-general
• 1919 Leo Pliatzky, senior civil servant, born in Manchester (d. 1999)
• 1920 Anthony Tuke, CEO (Savoy Hotel Groups)
• 1920 Denton Cooley, heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2016)
• 1920 Pierre A. Lauffer, Antillian poet (Patria), born in Curacao, Venezuela (d. 1981)
• 1920 Ray Bradbury, American sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451), born in Waukegan, Illinois (d. 2012)
• 1920 Wolfdietrich Schnurre, German writer, born in Frankfurt (d. 1989)
• 1921 James Menter, British physicist and principal (Queen Mary College), born in Teynham, Kent (d. 2006)
• 1923 Gerald Long, English journalist and CEO of Reuters, born in York, England (d. 1998)
• 1924 Peter Allsop, publisher
• 1926 Marc Bohan, French fashion designer, born in Paris
• 1928 Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate, born in Moyamba, Sierra Leone
• 1929 Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Labour) spokesperson on Home Affairs, born in British India
• 1929 Harry McPherson, presidential counsel (Lyndon Johnson) and lobbyist, born in Tyler, Texas (d. 2012)
• 1932 Gerald P Carr, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 4), born in Denver, Colorado
• 1932 Theoni Vachliotis Aldredge, Greek-American award winning costume designer, born in Thessaloniki, Greece (d. 2011)
• 1933 Irmtraud Morgner, German writer, born in Chemnitz, Germany (d. 1990)
• 1934 Norman Schwarzkopf [Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf], US Army general (Gulf War), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 2012)
• 1935 E. Annie Proulx, American author (Postcards), born in Norwich, Connecticut
• 1936 Anne Downey, British circuit judge
• 1937 Max Hebditch, director (Museum of London)
• 1938 Dale Hawkins, music writer (Suzy Q)
• 1940 Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher/multi-millionaire
• 1940 John Banham, director-general (CBI)
• 1941 Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist, born in Wels (d. 2006)
• 1941 Michael Aldrich, British inventor (online shopping), born in Brocket Hall, England (d. 2014)
• 1942 Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (Cumhuriyet Murder), born in Kırşehir, Turkey (d. 1993)
• 1943 Alun Michael, British Labour and Co-operative politician, born in Bryngwran, Anglesey
• 1943 Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist, born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
• 1944 Henk Veldhoen, Dutch politician (PvdA), born in Heinenoord, Netherlands (d. 1996)
• 1945 Derek Fatchett, British Labour politician, born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England (d. 1999)
• 1945 Steve Kroft, American journalist and longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes, born in Kokomo Indiana
• 1945 Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician, born in Istanbul, Turkey
• 1946 Felix Meurders, Dutch radio host, born in Maastricht, Netherlands
• 1947 Bud Cramer, American politician (Rep-D-Alabama), born in Huntsville, Alabama
• 1949 Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic writer (The Blue Tower), born in Reykjavik, Iceland
• 1949 Alfred Musema, Rwandan genocidaire, born in Byumba, Rwanda
• 1950 I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and convicted felon, born in New Haven, Connecticut
• 1951 Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician, born in Chokpur, Taplejung District, Nepal
• 1955 Will Shetterly, American writer (Dogland), born in Columbia, South Carolina
• 1959 Pia Gjellerup, Danish Social Democrat politician, born in Frederiksberg, Denmark

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• 1998 FOX News Channel correspondent and Robert F Kennedy's youngest son Douglas Kennedy (32) weds Molly Stark (29) in Nantucket, Massachusetts

• 634 Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies
• 1155 Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
• 1188 Ferdinand II, King of León and Galicia (1157-1188), dies at 51
• 1241 Gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies
• 1280 Nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies
• 1286 Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered
• 1304 John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
• 1350 Philip VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies at about 57
• 1358 Isabella, Queen of England (b. circa 1295)
• 1367 Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57
• 1485 Richard III, King of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32
• 1532 William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82
• 1553 John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded
• 1572 Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
• 1584 Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
• 1607 Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
• 1609 Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
• 1652 Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
• 1680 Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67
• 1701 John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman
• 1711 Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
• 1752 William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
• 1755 Caspar Burman, Dutch historian and Mayor of Utrecht, dies at 59
• 1773 George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
• 1793 Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80
• 1797 Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general, dies at 73
• 1801 Pieter G van Overstraten, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 46
• 1806 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (The Swing), dies at 74
• 1818 Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85
• 1828 Franz Joseph Gall, German-French physician (phrenology), dies at 70
• 1850 Nikolaus Lenau, writer, dies at 48
• 1861 Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
• 1862 Henry Bohlen, German/US brigadier general (Union), dies in battle at 51
• 1866 George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies
• 1874 Sydney Thompson Dobell, English poet, dies at 50
• 1878 Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, Queen of Spain (1829-33), dies at 72
• 1886 Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author (Indiana), dies at 67
• 1889 John Sanger, circus entrepreneur, dies
• 1890 Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian foreign minister, diplomat and poet, dies at 69
• 1891 Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)

• 1904 Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, American writer, dies at 54
• 1914 Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WWI), dies in battle
• 1914 Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WWI), dies in battle
• 1914 Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure
• 1918 Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
• 1920 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (Gustavus Vasa), dies at 60

• 1926 Charles William Eliot, American University president (Harvard, 1869-1909), dies at 92
• 1929 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WWI), dies at 74
• 1933 Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses), dies at 62
• 1936 Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue), dies at 99
• 1937 David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies
• 1940 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
• 1945 Ida Henrietta Hyde, American physiologist, inventor of the micro-electrode, and pioneering female scientist dies at 87
• 1950 Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
• 1958 Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies
• 1963 William Richard Morris, 1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer, dies
• 1965 Ellen Church, American 1st female airline stewardess (United flight in 1930 from San Francisco to Cheyenne), dies in a horse riding accident at 60
• 1967 Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
• 1970 Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
• 1976 Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73
• 1976 Oskar Brusewitz, East German vicar, sets self on fire
• 1978 Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78

• 1979 Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69
• 1979 James T Farrell, American writer (French Girls are Vicious), dies
• 1980 James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer, dies of a stroke at 81
• 1980 Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz), dies at 89
• 1985 Paul Peter Ewald, German Crystallographer and Physicist who devised the theory of X-ray interference by crystals and pioneered X-ray diffraction methods, dies at 97
• 1989 Diana Vreeland, French-American fashion editor (Harper's Bazaar, Vogue), dies at 85
• 1991 Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide
• 1993 Kasdi Merbah, PM of Algeria (1988-89), assassinated
• 1994 Tom Quirke, journalist, dies at 42
• 1995 Jose Antonio Giron, Spanish politician, dies at 83
• 1996 David Donaldson, painter, dies at 80
• 1996 Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher, dies at 77
• 1996 William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist, dies at 87
• 1997 Mary Louise Smith, chairman (Rep), dies at 82
• 2003 Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
• 2003 Generosa Ammon, American widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
• 2004 Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
• 2004 Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (b. 1922)
• 2008 Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1899)
• 2009 Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (b. 1926)
• 2011 Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
• 2012 Nina Bawden, English author, dies at 87
• 2015 Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator, dies at 88
• 2016 S. R. [Sellapan Ramanathan] Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (1999-2011), dies at 92

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