On this day in History - Aug. 22

• 0392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
• 0408 - Stilicho dies (b. 0359). Roman general.
• 0476 - Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
• 0565 - St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
• 1138 - Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
• 1188 - King Ferdinand II of Leon dies.
• 1241 - Pope Gregory IX dies.
• 1280 - Pope Nicholas III dies.
• 1286 - Erik V Klipping dies murdered (b. 1249). King of Denmark.
• 1350 - King Philip VI of France dies (b. 1293).
• 1415 - Tropas portuguesas comandadas pelo rei D. João I de Portugal conquistam Ceuta.
• 1484 - D. João II, Príncipe Perfeito, apunhala o duque de Viseu, seu primo, acusado de liderar uma conspiração contra o monarca.
• 1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field in Leicestercheire decisively ends the Wars of the Roses.
• 1485 - Richard III (b. 1452) is killed as he tries to reach the usurper of his crown, Henry Tudor. It's the last battle in the War of the Roses between the Houses of Lancaster and York.
• 1553 - John Dudley dies beheaded (b. 1501). English admiral and politician.
  
• 1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
• 1571 - Morte de D. João de Lencastre, 1º. Duque de Aveiro (n. 1501).
• 1572 - Thomas Percy dies (b. 1528). Earl of Northumberland.
• 1584 - Jan Kochanowski dies (b. 1530). Polish writer.
• 1599 - Beatrice Cenci dies (b. 1577). Italian noblewoman.
• 1599 - Luca Marenzio dies (b. c. 1533). Italian composer.
• 1601 - Georges de Scudéry was born (d. 1667). French writer.
• 1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold dies (b. 1572). English explorer and privateer.
• 1609 - Maharal of Prague dies (b. 1525). Jewish mystic and philosopher.
• 1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais was born (d. 1701). French writer.
• 1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers.
• 1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War.
• 1647 - Denis Papin was born. French physicist, mathematician, and inventor.
• 1652 - Jacob De la Gardie dies (b. 1583). Swedish soldier and statesman.
• 1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States.
• 1679 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin was born (1758). French cardinal.
• 1680 - John George II, Elector of Saxony dies (b. 1613).
• 1700 - Carlos Sigüenza y Gongóra dies (b. 14 Ago 1645). Mexican novelist and writer.
• 1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath dies (b. 1628). English royalist statesman.
• 1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers dies (b. 1644). French marshall.
• 1717 - Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
• 1752 - William Whiston dies (b. 1667). English mathematician.
• 1760 - Pope Leo XII was born (d. 1829).
• 1764 - Charles Percier was born (d. 1838). French architect.
• 1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
• 1771 - Henry Maudslay was born (d. 1831). English inventor and tool-maker.
• 1773 - Aimé Bonpland was born (d. 1858). French explorer.
• 1773 - George Lyttelton dies (b. 1709). English writer and politician.
• 1775 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
• 1778 - James Kirke Paulding was born (d. 1860). American author.
• 1780 - James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
• 1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution.
• 1793 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles dies (b. 1713). Marshal of France.
• 1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser dies (b. 1724). Alsatian-born Austrian general.
• 1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
• 1800 - William S. Harney was born (d. 1889). U.S. general.
• 1800 - Samuel David Luzzatto was born (d. 1865). Italian-Jewish scholar.
• 1802 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard was born (d. 1886). American land speculator.
• 1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard dies (b. 1732). French artist.
• 1811 - William Kelly was born (d. 1888). American inventor.
• 1818 - Warren Hastings dies (b. 1732). British Governor-General of India.
• 1821 - Felipe Mariano Paz Soldán was born. Historian and geographer.
• 1822 - Virginia Clemm Poe was born (d. 1847). Wife of Edgar Allan Poe.
• 1827 - Ezra Butler Eddy was born (d. 1906). Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician.
• 1827 - José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
• 1827 - Joseph Strauss was born in Vienna (21 Jul 1870). Austrian conductor and composer.
• 1827 - Ezra Butler Eddy was born (d. 1906). Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician.
• 1828 - Franz Joseph Gall dies (b. 1758). Austrian neuroscientist.
• 1831 - Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt 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.
• 1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley was born (d. 1906). American astronomer.
• 1836 - Archibald MacNeal Willard was born (d.1918). American artist.
• 1846 - The United States annexes New Mexico.
• 1848 - Melville E. Stone was born (d. 1929). American newspaper publisher.
• 1849 - O governador de Macau, Ferreira do Amaral é assassinado, perto das Portas do Cerco, por sete chineses de uma organização secreta Sociedade dos Rios e dos Lagos. Ver Elementos para uma interpretacao de Macau
• 1849 - First air raid of the history, as the Austrian release incendiary bombs on Venice.
• 1850 - Nikolaus Lenau dies (b. 1802). Austrian poet.
• 1851 - Gold is discovered in Australia
• 1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
• 1854 - Milan I was born (d. 1901). King of Serbia.
• 1860 - Paul Nipkow was born (b. 1940). German inventor and television pioneer .
• 1861 - Xianfeng dies (b. 1831). Emperor of China.
• 1862 - Claude Debussy was born (d. 1918). French composer.
• 1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
• 1866 - José María Cabral sworns for the second time as President of Dominican Republic.
• 1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner was born (d. 1939). Swiss physician and nutritionist.
• 1873 - Alexander Bogdanov was born (d. 1928). Russian physician and philosopher.
• 1874 - Max Scheler was born (d. 1928). German philosopher.
• 1874 - Sydney Thompson Dobell dies (b. 5 Apr 1824). English of the so-called Spasmodic school.
• 1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
• 1877 - William Richard Morris dies (b. 10 Oct 1877). 1st Viscount Nuffield who was the founder of the Morris Motor Company and a philanthropist.
• 1880 - George Herriman was born (d. 1944). American cartoonist.
• 1880 - Gorch Fock was born (d. 1916). German author and poet.
• 1887 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk was born (d. 1977). German minister of finance.
• 1891 - Jacques Lipchitz was born (d. 1973). Lithuanian-born American sculptor.
• 1891 - Jan Neruda dies (b. 1834). Czech author.
• 1893 - Dorothy Parker was born (d. 1967). American satirical author and poet.
• 1893 - Wilfred Kitching was born (d. 1977). British Salvation Army general.
• 1895 - Paul Comtois was born (d. 1966). French Canadian politician.
• 1900 - Sergei Ozhegov was born (d. 1964). Russian lexicographer.
• 1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded.
• 1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
• 1902 - Leni Riefenstahl was born (d. 2003). German film director.
• 1902 - Thomas Pelly was born (d. 1973). American politician.
• 1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury dies (b. 1830). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1904 - Kate Chopin dies (b. 1851). American author.
• 1904 - Deng Xiaoping was born (d. 1997). Leader of the People's Republic of China.
• 1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson was born (d. 2004). French photographer
• 1909 - Julius J. Epstein was born (d. 2000). American screenwriter.
• 1909 - Mel Hein was born (d. 1992). American football player.
• 1909 - Lucille Ricksen was born (d. 1925). American actress.
• 1910 - Japan annexes Korea.
• 1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
• 1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo was born (d. 1993). Italian physicist.
• 1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
• 1914 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi dies. Bishop of Bergamo.
• 1915 - Hugh Paddick was born (d. 2000). British actor.
• 1915 - Edward Szczepanik was born (d. 2005). Polish Prime Minister.
• 1917 - John Lee Hooker was born (d. 2001). American guitarist and singer.
• 1918 - Mary McGrory was born (d. 2004). American journalist.
• 1918 - Korbinian Brodmann dies (b. 1868). German neurologist.
• 1920 - Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois. American writer (Playwright, poet, and SciFi writer).
• 1920 - Doctor Denton Cooley was born. American heart surgeon.
• 1922 - Micheline Presle was born. French actress.
• 1922 - Michael Collins (b. 1890), Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na Blath, County Cork during the Irish Civil War.
• 1924 - James Kirkwood, Jr. was born (d. 1989). American playwright and author.
• 1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 1926 - Charles W. Eliot dies (b. 1834). President of Harvard University.
• 1927 - Honor Blackman was born. English actress.
• 1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen was born (d. 2007). German composer.
• 1930 - Gilmar was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1931 - Ruy Guerra was born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique. Film director.
• 1932 - Gerald P. Carr was born. American astronaut.
• 1933 - Sylva Koscina was born Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia) (d. 26 Dec 1994). Actress.
• 1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf was born. U.S. general.
• 1935 - E. Annie Proulx was born. American author.
• 1936 - Dale Hawkins was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1938 - Paul Maguire was born. American football player.
• 1938 - Dale Hawkins was born. Musician ( "Susie-Q").
• 1939 - George Reinholt was born. American actor.
• 1939 - Carl Yastrzemski was born. Baseball player.
• 1939 - Cândido Lima was born. Portuguese composer.
• 1940 - Valerie Harper was born. American actress.
• 1940 - Bill McCartney was born. Former college football coach.
• 1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge dies (b. 1851). English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy.
• 1941 - Bill Parcells was born. American football coach.
• 1941 - German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
• 1942 - Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)
• 1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan).
• 1942 - Kathy Lennon was born. American singer.
• 1942 - Alfredo da Silva dies (b. 30 Jun 1871). Portuguese industrialist.
• 1942 - Alice Duer Miller dies (b. 1874). American writer and poet.
• 1942 - Michel Fokine dies (b. 1880). Russian choreographer and dancer.
• 1943 - Masatoshi Shima was born. Japanese computer scientist
• 1944 - World War II: Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany.
• 1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.
• 1944 - World War II: Romania captured by the Soviet Union.
• 1945 - Ron Dante was born. American songwriter and record producer (The Archies)
• 1945 - Erol Gelenbe was born. Turkish computer scientist, electrical engineer and applied mathematician
• 1947 - Cindy Williams was born. American actress
• 1947 - Donna Godchaux was born. Singer (Grateful Dead)
• 1948 - Sekou Sundiata [Robert Franklin Feaster] was born (d. 18 Jul 2007). African-American poet and performer.
• 1949 - Diana Nyad was born. American swimmer, wold record holder
• 1949 - Doug Bair was born. Baseball player
• 1949 - Þórarinn Eldjárn was born. Icelandic writer
• 1949 - Alfred Musema was born. Rwandan genocidaire
• 1949 - Foundation of U.D. Las Palmas (Spain).
• 1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis
• 1950 - Ray Burris was born. Baseball player
• 1950 - Kirk Bryan dies (b. 1888). American geologist.
• 1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• 1953 - The jail on Devil's Island is closed
• 1953 - Paul Ellering was born. American wrestling manager
• 1953 - Jim Tabor dies (b. 1916). American baseball player.
• 1955 - Will Shetterly was born. Writer
• 1955 - Chiranjeevi was born. Telugu film actor
• 1956 - Paul Molitor was born. Baseball player
• 1956 - Paolo Rossi was born in Prato. Legendary Italian football player. Top scorer in World Cup 1982.
• 1957 - Steve Davis was born. English snooker player
• 1958 - Colm Feore was born. American-born Canadian actor
• 1958 - Lane Huffman was born. American professional wrestler
• 1958 - Vernon Reid was born. American musician (Living Colour)
• 1958 - Roger Martin du Gard dies (b. 1881). French novelist. 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1959 - Juan Croucier was born. American musician
• 1959 - Pia Gjellerup was born. Danish politician
• 1960 - Debbi Peterson was born. Drummer (The Bangles)
• 1961 - Roland Orzabal was born. British singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears)
• 1961 - Andrés Calamaro was born in Buenos Aires. Argentinian musician.
• 1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles De Gaulle fails: 15 terrorists attack French leader General de Gaulle in the 22nd of 31 attempts on his life. Despite being sprayed with a volley of at least 150 shots, de Gaulle is only slightly injured by flying glass.
• 1962 - The Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage
• 1963 - Joe Walker in X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles).
• 1963 - Terry Catledge was born. American basketball player
• 1963 - Tori Amos was born. American singer, songwriter, and pianist
• 1964 - Match Of The Day is aired for the first time on BBC Two showing the highlights of Liverpool versus Arsenal at Anfield. Liverpool won the game 3-2.
• 1964 - Mats Wilander was born. Swedish tennis player.
• 1965 - Tom Gibis was born. American voice actor.
• 1965 - Ellen Church dies (b. 1904). First American airline stewardess.
• 1966 - Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
• 1966 - Eric Andolsek was born (d. 1992). American football player.
• 1966 - GZA was born. American rapper
• 1966 – Rob Witschge was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1967 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was born. British actor
• 1967 - Yukiko Okada was born (d. 1986). Japanese singer.
• 1967 - Alfred Gough was born. American screenwriter
• 1967 - Layne Staley was born (d. 2002). American musician (Alice in Chains)
• 1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus dies (b. 1903). American endocrinologist.
• 1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
  
• 1968 - Paul Colmanv was born. Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
• 1968 - Alexander Mostovoi was born. Russian footballer.
• 1968 - Horst Skoff was born. Austrian tennis player.
• 1970 - Charlie Connelly was born. English writer.
• 1970 - Giada De Laurentiis was born. Chef and television host.
• 1971 - J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
• 1971 - Richard Armitage was born. English actor.
• 1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
• 1972 – Max Wilson was born. Brazilian racing driver
• 1972 - Okkert Brits was born. South African pole vaulter.
• 1972 – Paul Doucette was born. American drummer (Matchbox 20).
• 1972 - Steve Kline was born. American baseball player.
  
• 1972 - Alfredo da Silva dies (b. 30 Jun 1871). Portuguese Industrialist (CUF)
• 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State, replacing William Rogers.
• 1973 - Howie Dorough was born. American singer (Backstreet Boys).
• 1973 – Kristen Wiig was born. American comedian.
• 1974 - William Kucmierowski was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1974 - Jacob Bronowski dies (b. 1908). Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter.
• 1975 - Clint Bolton was born. Australian footballer
• 1975 - Sheree Murphy was born. British actress
• 1975 - Rodrigo Santoro was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1976 - Gina Bachauer dies (b. 1913). Greek pianist.
• 1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek dies (b. 1902). Brazilian politician, President of Brazil.
• 1977 - Heiðar Helguson was born. Icelandic footballer
• 1977 - Keren Cytter was born. Artist, filmmaker and writer
• 1977 - Sebastian Cabot dies (b. 1918). English-born actor.
• 1978 - The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
• 1978 - Jeff Stinco was born. Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
• 1978 - The Shroud of Turin goes on show for the first time, on the high altar at St John's Cathedral in Turin.
• 1978 - Jomo Kenyatta dies (b. c. 1892). First Prime Minister of Kenya.
• 1979 - Jennifer Finnigan was born in Montreal. Canadian actress.
  
• 1979 - James T. Farrell dies (b. 1904). American novelist.
• 1980 - Christi Shake was born. American model and actress.
• 1980 - Roland Benschneider was born. German footballer.
• 1980 - Nicolas Macrozonaris was born. Quebec 100m sprinter.
• 1980 - James Smith McDonnell dies (b. 1899). American aircraft manufacturer.
• 1981 - Alex Holmes was born. American football player.
• 1981 - Glauber Rocha dies in Lisbon, Portugal. Brazilian film director.
• 1981 - Mukoda Kuniko dies (b. 1929). Japanese author.
• 1982 - Arthur Duarte dies (b. 1895). Portuguese film director / Morre o realizador português Arthur Duarte (n. 17 Out 1895). [Realizou Costa do Castelo, O (1943) A Menina da Rádio (1944) Grande Elias, O (1950) Noivo das Caldas, O (1956) , entre muitos outros filmes ].
• 1983 - Theo Bos was born. Dutch cyclist
• 1983 - Laura Breckenridge was born. American actress.
• 1985 - A British Airtours Boeing 737 bursts into flames at the end of the runway at Manchester Airport after aborting its' take off. 55 are killed by flames and strong fumes - another 80 passengers manage to escape.
• 1988 - The Perth Mint issues the first platinum coin, the koala.
• 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 5000 strikeouts.
• 1989 - Huey P. Newton dies (b. 1942). African-American activist.
• 1991 - Colleen Dewhurst dies (b. 1924). Canadian actress.
• 1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shot and killed Vicki Weaver during an 11 day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
• 1994 - Gilles Groulx dies (b. 1931). French Canadian film director.
• 1995 - Negaso Gidada is elected President of the newly-named Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
• 1998 - Republican terrorist group the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) announces a 'complete ceasefire'.
• 2000 - José Belarmino Soares dies (b. 1940). Portuguese conductor who was musical director of Coro de S. Tarcísio.
• 2000 - Abulfez Elchibey dies. President of Azerbeijan (1992-1993).
• 2001 - the Trojan room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.
• 2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was 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.
• 2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler dies (b. 1914). Swiss-born figure skating trainer.
• 2003 - Generosa Ammon dies (b. 19569. Widow of Ted Ammon.
• 2003 - Imperio Argentina dies (b. 1906). Argentinian singer and actress.
• 2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
• 2004 - Francis Obikwelu obtém a medalha de prata nos Jogos Olímpicos de Atenas, na prova dos 100m em Atletismo, ganha por Justin Gatlin, dos Estados Unidos em 9.85 sec. Maurice Greene foi 3º.
• 2004 - Al Dvorin dies (b. c. 1923). American announcer on Elvis Presley's shows.
• 2004 - Daniel Petrie dies (b. 1920). Canadian-born television and movie director.
• 2004 - Konstantin Aseev dies (b. 1960). Russian chess player.
• 2005 - Luc Ferrari dies (b. 1929). French composer.
• 2006 - Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes, killing 170 people.
• 2006 - Bruce Gary dies (b. 1951). American rock drummer, producer (The Knack).
• 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.
• 2008 – Gladys Powers dies (b. 1899). Canadian World War I veteran.
• 2009 – Elmer Kelton dies (b. 1926). American Western novelist.
• Flag Day (Russia).