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, 29,263,680 minutes 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
- 1639 –Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
- 1642 –Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
- 1717 –Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
- 1791 –Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
- 1952 –The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
- 1968 –Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
- 1985 –Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
- 1996 –Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
- 2006 –Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
- 2007 –The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
Who were born on August 22?
- 1908 –Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (d. 1993)
- 1909 –Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
- 1939 –George Reinholt, American actor
- 1955 –Will Shetterly, American writer
- 1967 –Bill Welke, American baseball umpire
- 1967 –Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
- 1968 –Casper Christensen, Danish comedian
- 1968 –Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
- 1977 –Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
- 1978 –Giannis Gagaloudis, Greek basketball player
Who died on August 22?
- 408 –Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
- 1155 –Emperor Konoe, of Japan (b. 1139)
- 1701 –John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
- 1797 –Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
- 1909 –Henry Radcliffe Crocker, British dermatologist (b. 1846)
- 1946 –Döme Sztójay, Hungarian soldier and diplomat (b. 1883)
- 1950 –Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
- 1965 –Ellen Church, American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
- 1977 –Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
- 1994 –Gilles Groulx, French-Canadian film director (b. 1931)
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