August 22

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August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining.

Events

1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses
1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy
1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War
1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States
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 Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)
1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution
1846 - The United States annexes New Mexico
1851 - Gold is discovered in Australia
1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America
1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed
1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded
1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile
1910 - Japan annexes Korea
1911 - The Mona Lisa is stolen
1914 - In Belgium, British and German troops meet for the first time in World War I
1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1941 - German troops reach Leningrad
1942 - Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)
1944 - Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany
1944 - 32 Spaniards & 4 Frenchmen tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis wounded, 110 Germans killed, 200 wounded.
1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis
1953 - The jail on Devil's Island is closed
1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles De Gaulle fails
1962 - The Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage
1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America
1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies
1975 - An attempt to assassinate president Gerald Ford fails
1988 - The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued
1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered
1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shot and killed Vicki Weaver during an 11 day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho