What are the important events that happened on August 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 22: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 22 is the 234th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 9, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,755,820,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatriacontatetragon’ day.
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Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 179 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,627 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 22 Historical Events
- 1138 –Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
- 1559 –Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
- 1780 –James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
- 1932 –The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
- 1941 –World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
- 1944 –World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
- 1944 –World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
- 1949 –Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada’s largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
- 1963 –American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km.
- 1992 –FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
Who were born on August 22?
- 1624 –Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
- 1915 –David Dellinger, American social rights activist (d. 2004)
- 1915 –Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
- 1934 –Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
- 1942 –Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
- 1945 –Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
- 1953 –Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
- 1955 –Will Shetterly, American writer
- 1971 –Craig Finn, American musician (The Hold Steady)
- 1985 –Joshua Samuel Fatu, American wrestler
Who died on August 22?
- 1350 –Philip VI, King of France (b. 1293)
- 1572 –Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
- 1797 –Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
- 1891 –Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
- 1970 –Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
- 1976 –Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
- 1977 –Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
- 1979 –James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
- 1980 –Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
- 2006 –Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
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