History Events on August 22

James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.

#James_Cook

Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.

#Bill_Woodfull

J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.

#J._Edgar_Hoover

The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.

#Sandinista_National_Liberation_Front

The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.

#Texas_Rangers_(baseball)

FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

#Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation

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.

#Alabama

Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

#The_Scream

Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.

#Charles_I_of_England

Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.

#Haiti

The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.

#1949_Queen_Charlotte_Islands_earthquake

X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)).

#X-15_Flight_91

Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.

#Korea

James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).

#HMS_Resolution_(1771)

Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.

#Mahatma_Gandhi

Britain's Quebec Expedition loses eight ships and almost nine hundred soldiers, sailors and women to rocks at Pointe-aux-Anglais.

#Quebec_Expedition

Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy.

#Brazil

Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed.

#Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103

Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.

#Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader)

The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.

#Battle_of_Bosworth_Field

The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.

#Second_Federal_Republic_of_Mexico

Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.

#Iceland

World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.

#World_War_II

Spanish troops land on Sardinia.

#Sardinia

The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.

#Airstrike

The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress. The proposed amendment would have provided the District of Columbia with full voting representation in the Congress, the Electoral College, and regarding amending the U.S. Constitution. The proposed amendment failed to be ratified by enough states (ratified by 16, needed 38) and so did not become part of the Constitution.

#District_of_Columbia_Voting_Rights_Amendment

The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

#America's_Cup

British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.

#Siege_of_Fort_Stanwix

British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.

#British_Airtours_Flight_28M

Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

#Chennai

Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.

#Pulkovo_Aviation_Enterprise_Flight_612

Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.

#Rhodesia

Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.

#First_Geneva_Convention

Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.

#Theodore_Roosevelt

Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.

#Bartolomé_Carranza

Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.

#Grigori_Perelman

The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.

#Penal_colony

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.

#Pope_Paul_VI

Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.

#Nolan_Ryan

José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.

#José_de_la_Mar

The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

#Treaty_of_Saint_Petersburg_(1875)

French troops land at Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid the rebellion.

#Kilcummin

Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.

#Battle_of_the_Standard

Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.

#2012-13_Tana_River_District_clashes

The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.

Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.

The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.

World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.

Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.

Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.

Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.

Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.