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 235th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 9, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,738,080 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 ‘dihectatriacontapentagon’ day.
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 160 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 4,262 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 22 Historical Events
- 392 –Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
- 1485 –The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
- 1654 –Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
- 1791 –Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
- 1831 –Nat Turner’s slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
- 1849 –The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
- 1851 –The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
- 1875 –The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
- 1952 –The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
- 2007 –The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
Who were born on August 22?
- 1854 –Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
- 1928 –Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
- 1935 –E. Annie Proulx, American author
- 1966 –Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
- 1966 –Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer
- 1967 –Bill Welke, American baseball umpire
- 1971 –Rick Yune, American actor
- 1981 –Saito Takumi, Japanese actor and model
- 1984 –Lawrence Quaye, Ghanaian–Qatari footballer
- 1984 –Lee Camp, English footballer
Who died on August 22?
- 1241 –Pope Gregory IX, (b. c.1143)
- 1680 –John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
- 1701 –John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
- 1818 –Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
- 1828 –Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
- 1903 –Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
- 1926 –Charles William Eliot, American University president (b. 1834)
- 1946 –Döme Sztójay, Hungarian soldier and diplomat (b. 1883)
- 1960 –Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
- 1967 –Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
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