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08-23-2010, 03:15 AM
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This Date in History - August 22nd
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* 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 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 Bartolomι 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.
* 1717 Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
* 1770 James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
* 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 Josι 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.
* 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 Twelve 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 was annexed by Japan with the signing of the JapanKorea 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 Bιal na mBlαth, 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.
* 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.
* 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 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 Bogotα, 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.
* 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
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This Date in History - August 22nd
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* 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 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 Bartolomι 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.
* 1717 Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
* 1770 James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
* 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 Josι 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.
* 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 Twelve 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 was annexed by Japan with the signing of the JapanKorea 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 Bιal na mBlαth, 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.
* 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.
* 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 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 Bogotα, 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.
* 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
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