408 – Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), executed at 48
1358 – Isabella, Queen of England (b. circa 1295)
1607 – Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
1828 – Franz Joseph Gall, German-French physician (phrenology), dies at 70
1831 – John White, English organist and violinist, dies at 52
1989 – Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
1989 – Johannes “Jan” Teulings, Dutch actor (Lentelied, The Three Wishes), dies of natural causes at 84
1993 – Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria (1988-89), assassinated
2003 – Imperio Argentina [María Magdalena Nile], Argentinian-Spanish singer and actress, dies at 92
2011 – Jean-Charles Capon, French jazz cellist and composer (Confluence; Baroque Jazz Trio), dies at 75
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Historical Events for 22nd August 2022
1454 – Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1914 – 1st encounter between British and German troops (in Belgium)
1939 – Premier De Geer recalls Dutch holidaymakers in Black Forest
1946 – Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
1966 – The Beatles arrive in New York
1978 – Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua
1984 – Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200
1988 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
2021 – Tropical storm Henri makes landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island
Today in History for 22nd August 2022
Historical Events
1543 – Emperor Charles V’s army occupies Duren
1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree, one of the first Jewish colonists
1902 – US President Theodore Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
1934 – Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12
2004 – American sprinter Justin Gatlin wins the coveted Olympic 100m gold medal in Athens in 9.85 ahead of Francis Obikwelu of Portugal and American Maurice Greene
2021 – Tropical storm Henri makes landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island
Famous Birthdays
1822 – George Stoneman, US Union general-major and Governor of California (1883-87), born in Busti, NY (d. 1894)
1916 – John Slater, British actor (Deadlock, Cartel, Devil’s Pass), born in London, England (d. 1975)
1947 – Cindy Williams, American actress (Shirley- Laverne and Shirley), born in Van Nuys, California
1955 – Will Shetterly, American writer (Dogland), born in Columbia, South Carolina
1975 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor (Love Actually), born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1995 – Dua Lipa, British-Kosovo Albanian pop singer-songwriter (“New Rules”, “One Kiss”), born in London
Famous Deaths
1607 – Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
1944 – Raymond Aimos, actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera), dies at 55
2004 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
2008 – Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1899)
2011 – Vicco von Bülow [Loriot], German comedian, cartoonist and film director (Unsere Besten), dies at 87
2021 – Brian Travers, British rock saxophonist (UB40 – “Red, Red Wine”), dies of cancer at 62
Famous Deaths for 21st August 2022
1271 – Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France, dies at 50
1824 – Santiago Ferrer, Spanish composer, dies at 62
1864 – John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 24
1940 – Leon Trotsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the Red Army, assassinated at 62 by an ice-pick wielding Ramón Mercader
1994 – Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis player (US Nat C’ships 1937; first Latin American major winner), dies at 78
2000 – Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2007 – Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2015 – Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach (father of Chris Evert), dies at 91
2020 – Mohamed Ben Rehaiem, Tunisian soccer midfielder (35 caps; CS Sfaxien), dies at 69
2020 – Pedro Nájera, Mexican soccer midfielder (FIFA World Cup 1954, 62; Club América), dies at 91
Historical Events for 21st August 2022
1689 – Battle of Dunkeld fought in Scotland between supporters of King James VII of Scotland and troops of William of Orange
1929 – Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
1962 – Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1972 – US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
1982 – American MLB Milwaukee Brewers’ relief pitcher Rollie Fingers becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
1983 – 110°F (43°C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
1991 – Latvia declares its independence from USSR
1997 – US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out
2008 – Japan edges the United States 3-1 for the gold medal in the final of the women’s softball tournament at the Beijing Olympics
2017 – London’s parliament clock Big Ben chimes for the last time before a four-year restoration process for its tower starts
Today in History for 21st August 2022
Historical Events
1856 – America’s first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)
1891 – Dutch Mackay government resigns
1920 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Flossmoor CC: American based Scotsman Jock Hutchison beats J. Douglas Edgar of England, 1-up; first of Hutchinson’s 2 majors
1942 – Walt Disney’s animated movie “Bambi”, based on the book by Felix Salten, is released
1983 – Jerry Herman’s musical “La Cage aux Folles”, based Jean Poiret’s French play of the same name, opens at Palace Theater, NYC; runs for 1761 performances, wins 6 Tony Awards
2004 – American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 6th gold medal of the Athens Olympics even though he doesn’t swim the final of men’s 4 x 100m medley relay; US wins in world record 3:30.68
Famous Birthdays
1800 – Hiram Walden, American politician, born in Pawlet, Vermont (d. 1880)
1882 – Rik Wouters, Belgian painter (Lady in Blue), and sculptor (The Nymph), born in Mechelen, Belgium (d. 1916)
1941 – Jackie DeShannon [Sharon Lee Myers], American singer-songwriter (“What the World Needs Now Is Love”; “When You Walk In The Room”), born in Hazel, Kentucky
1957 – Janice Thomas, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1970 – Steve Everitt, NFL center (Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles), born in Miami, Florida
1974 – Pietra Gay, WNBA guard/forward (Houston Comets)
Famous Deaths
1581 – Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1723 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanian historian and Monarch of Moldova (1710-11), dies at 49
1957 – Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
2005 – Polly Hill, British economic anthropologist (studied Cocoa-Farmers Of Southern Ghana), dies at 91
2005 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2013 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American USMC Colonel, and NASA astronaut (STS-3; STS-51-F), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 20th August 2022
1580 – Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
1680 – William Bedloe, English fraudster and Popish Plot informer, dies at 30
1799 – Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, German composer, dies at 37
1887 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (Les Complaintas), dies at 27
1908 – Louis Varney, French composer, dies at 64
1945 – Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer, dies at 73
1992 – Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut, dies at 59
1998 – Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (“Seven Lonely Days”), dies at 82
2006 – Claude Blanchard, French Canadian singer, comedian and actor, dies at 74
2017 – Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer, dies at 89
Historical Events for 20th August 2022
1741 – Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition
1914 – German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
1941 – Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1945 – Soviet troops occupy Harbin and Mukden
1947 – Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1974 – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed is elected fifth President of India
1978 – Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1982 – US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
1990 – George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
1990 – Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
Today in History for 20th August 2022
Historical Events
1672 – Former Grand Pensionary of Holland Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague
1920 – Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1944 – US and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
1949 – Las Lajas Sanctuary, a basilica built inside the Guáitara River in Colombia, is completed after 33 years
1996 – India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord’s
2016 – Canoeists Max Rendschmidt and Marcus Gross part of winning German crew in K-4 100m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wrap up K-2 / K-4 1,000m double
Famous Birthdays
1719 – Christian Mayer, Czech Catholic priest and astronomer, born in Modřice, Moravia (d. 1783)
1719 – Charles-François de Broglie, French soldier and diplomat, marquis de Ruffec, born in Paris (d. 1791)
1778 – Bernardo O’Higgins, Chillán, Chile, South American independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule (1817-1823 Supreme Director of Chile)
1927 – Yootha Joyce, British actress (Man About the House, George and Mildred), born in Wandsworth, London (d. 1980)
1941 – Jo Ramírez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author, born in Mexico City, Mexico
1946 – N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian industrialist and co-founder (Infosys), born in Shidlaghatta, Kolar district, India
Famous Deaths
1910 – Arthur Coquard, French composer, dies at 64
1990 – Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist and writer, dies at 90
1993 – Sydney Arnold, British comic actor (The Meaning of Life, Top Secret!, Miss Jones and Son), dies at 93
1995 – William Kennedy, baseball player, dies at 76
2016 – Brian Rix [Lord Rix], British actor and activist (Mencap), dies at 92
2019 – Russ Conway, American sports journalist (Eagleson NHL scandal), dies of heart disease at 70
Famous Deaths for 19th August 2022
1493 – Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77
1691 – Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Turkish grand vizer, dies in the Battle of Slankamen (b. 1637)
1753 – Balthasar Neumann, German Baroque architect (Würzburg Residence), dies at 66
1838 – James Geddes, American Engineer (Erie Canal), dies at 75
1909 – Rembt Tobias Hugo Pieter Liebrecht Alexander of Boneval Faure, Dutch lawyer and Member of parliament, dies at 83
1929 – Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet director (founder of the Ballets Russes), dies at 57
1971 – Mary Browne, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1912-14), dies at 80
1983 – Aleksandar Ranković, Yugoslavic partisan and 1st Vice President of Yugoslavia (1963-66), dies at 73
1993 – Utpal Dutt, Indian actor and director (Manusher Adhikar), dies at 64
1998 – Vasili Arkhipov, Soviet Russian Navy submarine officer credited with successfully arguing against a Soviet nuclear strike during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, dies at 72