Historical Events In August - 22

1973  On August - 22 louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77   

1974  On August - 22 jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66   

1976  Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, pres of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73 on August - 22.   

1977  On this day in history sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59   

1978  On August - 22 tear gas used to quell riot by 150 prisoners in Sydney's Long Bay Jail who set fire to their cells   

1978  On this day in history ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78   

1979  On this day in history henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69   

1982  On this day in history gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence   

1984  On August - 22 rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan and VP Bush   

1984  On this day in history charles Whittenberg, composer, dies at 57   

1985  On this day in history ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies   

1986  NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics on this day in history.   

1987  On this day in history madonna's "Who's "That Girl," single goes #1   

1988  On August - 22 australia unveils first platinum coin (Koala)   

1988  NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee) on August - 22.   

1989  On this day in history the first complete ring around Neptune discovered   

1990  On August - 22 pres Bush calls up military reserves   

1990  On this day in history scores of angry smokers block street near Moscow's Red Square for hours to protest summer-long cigarette shortage.   

1990  On August - 22 merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45   

1991  On this day in history boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide   

1993  Don Getz, US filmer (Playpoint) on this day in history.   

1994  On this day in history canadian icebreaker Louis St-Laurent reaches the North Magnetic Pole.   

1994  On August - 22 leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80   

2005  On this day in history a 4.1-kg (9-pound) meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving a 15-cm (6-inch) crater.   

2006  On August - 22 pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children.   

2006  The ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems. Perelman refuses the medal on this day in history.   

2007  The Texas Rangers score thirty runs in one game, setting the modern (post-1900) MLB record for most runs by one team in a single game, in a 30-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on August - 22.   

2012  47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war on August - 22.   

2013  On August - 22 14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq   

2014  2nd Ebola death in Nigera, Africa’s most populated country on August - 22.   

2017  On August - 22 india's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq)   

2017  Missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA eividence on this day in history.   

2018  Longest ever bull market for Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index at 3,453 days (using 19.9 percent decline in 1990 as the start, usually 20%) on August - 22.   

2018  On this day in history discovery of a bone of a 90,000 hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan from Anuy River, Siberia published in "Nature"   

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1530  On August - 22 birth of bartolomeo Spontone, composer   

1601  On August - 22 birth of georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)   

1615  On this day in history birth of christopher Gibbons, composer   

1624  Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.   

1647  On this day in history birth of denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine)   

1679  Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758) was born on this day in history.   

1681  Pierre Danican Philidor, composer was born on this day in history.   

1753  On this day in history birth of christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer   

0408  On August - 22 flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48   

0634  Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies on August - 22.   

1155  Death of Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139) on August - 22.   

1188  Death of Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137) on August - 22.   

1241  On this day in history gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies   

1280  Nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies on this day in history.   

1286  Death of Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered on August - 22.   

1304  On August - 22 death of john II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)