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Events
392 – Arbogast
has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
476 – Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
565 – St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near
the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III
and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
1559 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for
heresy.
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.
1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first
known Jewish immigrant to America.
1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition
founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland
and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in
the name of King George III.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the
Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army
reinforcements.
1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook
having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo,
Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1827 – José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
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.
1846 the Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
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.
1864 – 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red
Cross is formed.
1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia
is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the
Kuril Islands.
1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the
United States to ride in an automobile.
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.
1914 – World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash
for the first time in the war.
1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free
State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal
na mBláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1926 – Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1932 – The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting.
(See also Timeline of the BBC.)
1934 – Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain
to twice regain The Ashes.
1941 – World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading
to the siege of Leningrad.
1942 – World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
1944 – World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German
forces
1949 – Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake
since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international
tennis.
1952 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1961 – Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
1962 – An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de
Gaulle fails.
1962 – The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo
ship, completes its maiden voyage.
1963 – American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an
altitude of 106 km (66 mi).
1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United
Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the
United Farm Workers.
1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first
visit of a pope to Latin America.
1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest
of 20 of the Camden 28.
1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1978 – The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies
national palace in Nicaragua.
1985 – Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a
fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
1989 – The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the
first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver
during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing
major shift in US welfare policy
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.
2004 – A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by
Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo,
Norway.
2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the
Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people
on board.
2007 – The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the
most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm,
sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Queenship of Mary
Symphorian and Timotheus
August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Krishna Janmashtami (Hinduism)
Earliest day on which National Heroes' Day can fall, while August
28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August.
(the Philippines)
Flag Day (Russia)
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