Hisdates•ComPage 7: Historical Events In August - 22
Saturday, 18 January 2025
1973 On this day in history louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77 
1974 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66 on this day in history.
1976 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, pres of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73 on this day in history.
1977 Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59 on this day in history.
1978 Tear gas used to quell riot by 150 prisoners in Sydney's Long Bay Jail who set fire to their cells on August - 22.
1978 Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78 on August - 22.
1979 On this day in history henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69
1982 Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence on this day in history.
1984 Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan and VP Bush on August - 22.
1984 Charles Whittenberg, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.
1985 On August - 22 ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies
1986 On this day in history nASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
1987 Madonna's "Who's "That Girl," single goes #1 on this day in history.
1988 Australia unveils first platinum coin (Koala) on August - 22.
1988 On this day in history nBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1989 The first complete ring around Neptune discovered on August - 22.
1990 Pres Bush calls up military reserves on this day in history.
1990 Scores of angry smokers block street near Moscow's Red Square for hours to protest summer-long cigarette shortage on this day in history.
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 August - 22.
1994 On this day in history canadian icebreaker Louis St-Laurent reaches the North Magnetic Pole.
1994 Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80 on this day in history.
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 Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children on this day in history.
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 August - 22.
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 On August - 22 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war
2013 On this day in history 14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq
2014 2nd Ebola death in Nigera, Africa’s most populated country on this day in history.
2017 On this day in history india's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq)
2017 On August - 22 missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA eividence
2018 On August - 22 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%)
2018 Discovery of a bone of a 90,000 hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan from Anuy River, Siberia published in "Nature" on this day in history.