Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 22

St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
1138: carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard
1138: English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were
1454: Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1485: Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III
1543: Emperor Charles V's army occupies Dren
1559: Spanish archbishop Bartholom‚ de Carranza arrested as heretic
1572: Failed assassination on admiral De Coligny
1582: King James IV of Scotland captured
1603: 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
1614: ghetto in Frankfurt
1614: Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of
1632: Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht
1642: Civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament
1654: 1st Jewish immigrant to US, Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam
1707: Prince Eugenius van Savoye siege of Toulon
1707: Sweden & Prussia sign military treaty
1715: Hndels Watermusic premieres on Thames
1717: Spanish troops lands on Sardinia
1762: 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1775: King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
1780: Resolution, without Capt Cook, returns to England
1787: John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
1788: Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
1791: Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
1818: Grand duchy of Bathe forms
1826: Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah
1846: US annexes New Mexico
1851: Gold fields discovered in Australia
1851: Yacht America wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
1852: J R Hind discovers asteroid #19 Fortuna (goddess of fortune)
1862: Battle of Catlett's Station VA
1862: Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely
1864: Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations
1864: International Red Cross forms
1867: Fisk University forms, 1867
1868: C H F Peters discovers asteroid #102 Miriam
1877: Nez Perc‚-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park
1882: J Palisa discovers asteroid #229 Adelinda
1892: Max Wolf discovers asteroid #333 Badenia
1895: A Charlois discovers asteroid #406 Erna
1900: Gabriel Faur‚s opera Prom‚th‚e, premieres in Beziers
1901: Cadillac Co forms
1902: Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
1906: 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1906: A Kopff discovers asteroid #754 Malabar
1906: Max Wolf discovers asteroid #1514 Ricouxa
1907: Colin Buchanan, town planner
1907: Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist
1908: Henri Cartier-Bresson, France, photographer (Decisive Moment)
1910: Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate
1911: Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913)
1911: Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris
1912: England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
1912: Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya)
1913: Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn
1914: -23] Battle at Charleroi: Gen von Blows 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
1914: Von Ludendorff & von Hindenburg move into E Prussia enroute to Russia
1917: Pitts Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee
1917: sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers
1919: K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #918 Itha
1921: J Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI
1923: Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4)
1926: Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1926: Greek dictator Gen P ngulos driven out
1927: Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
1932: BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
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 vacationers in Black Forest
1941: Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
1942: Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1943: Soviet troops free Karkov
1944: Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed [or 23rd]
1944: Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
1945: Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford
1945: No‰l Coward's revue Sigh no More, premieres in London
1945: Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1946: Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55)
1947: 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chi Bears 0 (105,840)
1949: E L Johnson discovers asteroid #3184
1950: Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50)
1950: Rotterdam harbor strike end
1951: Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1953: France closes jail on Devil Island
1953: John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
1953: Shah of Persia returns to Teheran
1954: WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955: I Groeneveld discovers asteroid #2947
1956: Elvis Presley begins filming The Reno Brothers (Love Me Tender)
1956: Pres Eisenhower & VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF
1957: Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1958: Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return
1958: Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1959: Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
1960: Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352
1961: Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
1962: Failed assassination on president De Gaulle
1962: from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1962: Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage
1962: USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963: NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
1964: Guin‚e, Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market
1964: Supreme's Where Did Our Love Go, reaches #1
1965: LA Dodger pitcher Juan Marachal hits SF Giant catcher John Roseboro
1965: on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
1966: Beatles arrive in NYC
1968: 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
1968: Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry
1968: Pope Paul VI opens Eucharistic congress in Bogota
1969: Beatles record a video for Long & Winding Road
1969: Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America
1969: Hurricane Camille strikes US Gulf Coast kills 255
1969: L Kohoutek discovers asteroids #1834, #1875 & #1931
1971: Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, pres Torres driven out
1972: International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
1973: Chilean parliament accuses pres Allende violating laws
1973: Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as min of Foreign affairs
1974: #2374 Vladvysotskij
1974: L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2130 Evdokiya, #2173 Maresjev &
1975: Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford
1977: #2338 Bokhan, #2376 Martynov, #2887 Krinov, #2915 Moskvina & #3448
1977: ? Dovzhenko
1977: N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2208 Pushkin, #2287 Kalmykia, #3112,
1978: C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroid #7857
1978: Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua
1979: #3005, #3331, #5088 Tancredi, #6686 Hernius & #7217
1979: 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
1979: C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroid #2589 Daniel, #2694 Pino Torinese,
1980: Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr
1980: for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale
1982: A Mrkos discovers asteroid #6508
1982: Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
1982: Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace
1984: Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
1984: Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
1984: Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200
1984: Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush
1984: South African election for parliament boycvotted
1985: #5636 Jacobson & #6770 Fugate
1985: 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
1985: A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3887 Gerstner
1985: Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed
1985: E Bowell discovers asteroid #3368 Duncombe, #3672, #3673,
1986: Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734 (Cameroon)
1986: NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
1987: A Mrkos discovers asteroid #5026
1987: E F Helin discovers asteroid #4897
1987: Madonna's Who's That Girl, single goes #1
1988: Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
1988: NBC premieres Later with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1988: Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #8006
1988: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989: 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1989: Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
1990: #6154 Stevesynnott, #6394, 6715, 6904, 7057, 7337, 7411, 7759 & #7937
1990: H E Holt discovers asteroid #5643 Roques, #5644, #6132 Danielson,
1990: Pres Bush calls up military reserves
1991: Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke (1:00.31)
1992: H E Holt discovers asteroid #7827
1992: Matthews & Warne spin Australia to a famous win v Sri Lanka
1993: In the Summer House closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 25 perfs
1994: DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
1994: Wim Cook govt forms in Neth
1995: FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho

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