| 1770-08-22
James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
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| 1989-08-22
The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
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| 1968-08-22
Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
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| 1926-08-22
Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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| 1780-08-22
James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
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| 1901-08-22
Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
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| 1978-08-22
The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
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| 1962-08-22
The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
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| 1849-08-22
The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
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| 1902-08-22
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
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| 1952-08-22
The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
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| 1950-08-22
Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
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| 1966-08-22
Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
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| 1639-08-22
Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
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| 0565-08-22
St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
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| 2007-08-22
The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
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| 1717-08-22
Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
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| 1962-08-22
An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
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| 1875-08-22
The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
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| 1848-08-22
The United States annexes New Mexico.
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| 1791-08-22
Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
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| 1827-08-22
José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
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| 1864-08-22
Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
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| 0392-08-22
Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
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| 1138-08-22
Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
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| 1559-08-22
Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
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| 1971-08-22
J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
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| 0476-08-22
Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
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| 1972-08-22
Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
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| 1922-08-22
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.
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| 2004-08-22
A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
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| 1932-08-22
The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
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| 1949-08-22
Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
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| 1996-08-22
Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
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| 1944-08-22
World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
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| 1911-08-22
Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
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| 1798-08-22
French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
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| 1642-08-22
Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
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| 1963-08-22
Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km (66 mi).
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| 1989-08-22
Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
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| 1851-08-22
The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
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| 1485-08-22
The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
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| 1992-08-22
FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
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| 2007-08-22
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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| 0851-08-22
Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
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| 1942-08-22
World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
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| 1654-08-22
Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
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| 2003-08-22
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.
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| 1831-08-22
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.
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| 1914-08-22
World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
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