Hisdates•ComHistorical Events In August - 22
Saturday, 23 November 2024
1973 Louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77 on this day in history. 
1974 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66 on August - 22.
1976 On August - 22 juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, pres of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73
1977 On August - 22 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 August - 22 ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78
1979 Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69 on August - 22.
1982 Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence on August - 22.
1984 On August - 22 rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan and VP Bush
1984 On August - 22 charles Whittenberg, composer, dies at 57
1985 Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies on August - 22.
1986 On August - 22 nASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
1987 On August - 22 madonna's "Who's "That Girl," single goes #1
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 On this day in history the first complete ring around Neptune discovered
1990 Pres Bush calls up military reserves on August - 22.
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 On August - 22 don Getz, US filmer (Playpoint)
1994 On August - 22 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 A 4.1-kg (9-pound) meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving a 15-cm (6-inch) crater on this day in history.
2006 Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children on August - 22.
2006 On August - 22 the ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems. Perelman refuses the medal.
2007 On August - 22 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.
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 On this day in history missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA eividence
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 this day in history.
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.