August 22

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 22. From 1900 until now. August 22 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Tori Amos (1963), Layne Staley (1967) and Richard Armitage (1971). Several movies were released around August 22 over the years, such as Room in 2015 directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Spotlight in 2015 directed by Tom McCarthy.
But much more happened on August 22 over the years: find out below

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2018 Senior industry sources say that the previously announced initial public offering of Saudi Aramco has been halted. (Reuters)
2017 Ain al-Hilweh conflict: Renewed clashes between Islamist extremists and the Fatah-supported Joint Palestinian Security Force at the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugees camp, near Sidon, Lebanon, wound three more Palestinians. (Daily Star) (Naharnet)
2016 2016 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Mindulle is forecast to make landfall near the Japanese capital Tokyo with flights and train services being cancelled. It arrives one day after Typhoon Kompasu. (Bloomberg), (CNN)
2015 South Korea evacuates residents near the North Korean border as tension escalates. High level talks in Panmunjom attempt to defuse tensions. (Yonhap), (Yonhap)
2014 Syrian Civil War: The United Nations estimates that the death toll in Syria has doubled to at least 191,000 in the past year. (Bloomberg via Business Week)
2013 War in North-West Pakistan:: 5 Taliban militants are killed in bomb attack in South Waziristan. (The News Pakistan)
2012 Syrian civil war:
2011 2011 Libyan civil war, 2011 Battle of Tripoli:
2010 A Venezuelan soldier opens fire at an army base in the capital Caracas, killing two officers and injuring six others. (BBC) (AP)
2009 Cardinal Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, criticises Ireland's Civil Partnership Bill, which gives statutory partnership rights to same-sex couples. (RTÉ) (Sunday Independent)
2008 An aircraft crashes in Guatemala, killing 10, including four Americans on a humanitarian mission.
2007 The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
2006 Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
2005 A crater.
2004 A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
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.
2002 Extreme weather: In China, the Dongting Lake floods Yueyang, forcing the evacuation of 600,000 people; the crest of the flooding from the Yangtze River is expected Sunday. Floods and landslides have killed nearly 1000 people in China, 200 in the Hunan province. There have been 376 deaths in India, 494 in Nepal, and 158 deaths in Bangladesh this monsoon season.
1996 Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
1994 DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman
1993 In the Summer House closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 25 performances
1992 Matthews and Warne spin Australia to a famous win vs. Sri Lanka
1991 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke (1:00.31)
1990 US President George Bush calls up military reserves.
1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1988 NBC premieres Later with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1987 Nintendo releases The Legend of Zelda for the NES in North America.
1986 Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734 (Cameroon)
1985 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
1984 Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
1980 Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale
1979 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
1978 Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua
1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1975 Assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford
1973 Chilean parliament accuses President Allende violating laws
1972 International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
1971 Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, President Torres driven out
1969 Beatles record a video for Long & Winding Road
1968 Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultery.
1966 Beatles arrive in New York City
1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open
1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches altitude of 67 miles (106 km).
1962 The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
1961 Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open
1959 Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
1957 Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1956 Elvis Presley begins filming The Reno Brothers (Love Me Tender)
1955 Eleven schoolchildren are killed when their school bus is hit by a freight train in Spring City, Tennessee.
1954 WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, Florida (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 France closes jail on Devil Island
1952 The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1951 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany, before audience of 75,052.
1950 Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50)
1949 Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
1947 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chi Bears 0 (105,840)
1946 Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
1945 Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford
1944 Last transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1943 Soviet troops free Karkov
1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
1941 Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
1939 Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (independent agency).
1934 Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
1933 Bill Veeck, urges midsummer inter-league games and a split season
1932 BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
1928 Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, with ''WGY/W2XB'' simulcasting the event on radio and television.
1927 Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
1926 Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1923 Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4)
1922 General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.
1921 J Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of FBI
1917 Pittsburgh Pirates play fourth straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Brooklyn Dodgers.
1914 Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny and Virton
1913 Robert Martineau, Bishop of Blackburn
1912 England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
1911 Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris
1910 Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan : Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
1907 Colin Buchanan, town planner
1906 The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
1902 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1901 Cadillac Co forms
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