August 22: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

August 22nd marks the 234th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 235th in case of leap years). There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Deng Xiaoping (1904), Tori Amos (1963) and Layne Staley (1967). Holidays and observances around the world include: International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief.
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2018 According to senior industry sources, the previously announced initial public offer of Saudi Aramco was canceled.
2017 Conflict at Ain al-Hilweh: Three more Palestinians were injured in renewed clashes between Islamist extremists, the Fatah-supported Joint Palestinian Security Force and the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refuge camp.
2016 2016 Pacific Typhoon Season: Typhoon Mindulle is expected to make landfall close to Tokyo, Japan. Train services and flights will be cancelled. It will arrive one day after Typhoon Kompasu. (Bloomberg),
2015 As tension escalates, South Korea has ordered residents to flee the area near the North Korean border. Tensions are attempted to be defused through high-level talks at Panmunjom. (Yonhap),
2014 Syrian Civil War: According to the United Nations, the death toll from Syria's civil war has increased to at least 191,000 over the past year.
2013 5 Taliban militants killed in South Waziristan bomb attack during war in North-West Pakistan
2012 Civil war in Syria:
2011 2011 Battle of Tripoli, Libyan Civil War
2010 Two officers were killed and six more injured when a soldier from Venezuela opened fire on an army base in Caracas.
2009 Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop and Primate in All Ireland, has criticised Ireland's Civil Partnership Bill which grants statutory partnership rights for same-sex couples.
2008 Ten people, including four Americans, were killed in an aircraft crash in Guatemala. They were on a humanitarian mission.
2007 Storm botnet, which was created by Storm Worm, sends a record number of 57 million e mails per day
2006 Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes close to the Russian border in eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 passengers.
2005 A crater.
2004 Two paintings by Edvard Munch, The Scream and Madonna were taken at gunpoint from an Oslo museum.
2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended for refusing to follow a federal court order to remove the rock with the Ten Commandments from the lobby at the Alabama Supreme Court Building.
2002 Extreme weather: The Dongting Lake floods Yueyang in China, forcing 600,000 people to flee. Sunday is the expected crest of flooding from the Yangtze River. Nearly 1000 people have been killed in floods and landslides in China, 200 of them in Hunan province. This monsoon season saw 376 deaths in India and 494 in Nepal. There were also 158 deaths at home.
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
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
1987 Nintendo releases The Legend of Zelda for the NES in North America.
1986 Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734
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
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
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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