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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast day of the Queenship of Mary (Roman Catholic Church); | citation style |
| 1138 – English forces repelled a Scottish army at the Battle of the Standard near Northallerton in Yorkshire. | Quote farm |
| 1910 – Japan annexed Korea with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II. | refimprove |
| 1922 – Irish Civil War: Irish National Army commander-in-chief Michael Collins was assassinated in an ambush while en route through County Cork at the village of Béal na mBláth. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – World War II: Wehrmacht infantry carried out an assault operation against the civilian residents of nine villages located in the Amari Valley on the Greek island of Crete. | Ref issues |
| 1989 – Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers struck out the Oakland Athletics' Rickey Henderson, becoming the only pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 5,000 strikeouts. | appears on May 1 (ironically, in the same blurb as Rickey Henderson) |
| 1996 – President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law, representing a major shift in U.S. welfare policy. | original research, expansion |
| 2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashed near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. | refimprove sections |
| 2007 – The Storm botnet, which was created by the Trojan horse Storm Worm, sent out a record 57 million e-mails in one day. | out of date |
| Dorothy Parker |b|1893| | Several tags, large pop culture section |
Eligible
- 1642 – King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham, marking the beginning of the First English Civil War.
- 1711 – Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River.
- 1851 – The yacht America won the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns race, later renamed the America's Cup, near the Isle of Wight, England.
- 1961 – Ida Siekmann jumped from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to West Berlin, becoming the first person to die at the Berlin Wall.
- 1985 – A fire broke out on British Airtours Flight 28M, causing 55 deaths mostly due to smoke inhalation and bringing about changes to make aircraft evacuation more effective.
- 2012 – A series of ethnic clashes between the Orma and Pokomo tribes of Kenya's Tana River District resulted in the deaths of at least 52 people.
- Born/died this day: |Isabella of France |d|1358| John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland |d|1553| Luca Marenzio |d|1599| Maria Cunitz |d|1664| Thomas Tredgold |b|1788| James Newland |b|1881| George Herriman |b|1880| Denton Cooley |b|1920| Alexandros Kontoulis |d|1933| Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. |b|1934
Notes
- Hildegard Trabant appears on August 18, so Ida Siekmann should not appear in the same year.
- Kolkata appears on August 24, so Chennai should not appear in the same year
August 22: Madras Day in Chennai, India (1639)
- 1485 – Lancastrian forces under Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeated Yorkist forces under Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field, decisively ending the Wars of the Roses.
- 1639 – The Vijayanagara Empire leased a small strip of land in present-day Chennai, the capital of the modern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, to the East India Company.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold used a ruse to convince the British that a much larger force was arriving, causing them to abandon the siege of Fort Stanwix (reconstructed fort pictured).
- 1864 – Under the leadership of Henry Dunant and the International Committee of the Red Cross, twelve European states signed the First Geneva Convention, establishing rules for the protection of victims of armed conflict.
- 2015 – A former military aircraft crashed at an airshow at Shoreham Airport in southern England, killing eleven people.
- Claude Debussy (b. 1862)
- Bill Woodfull (b. 1897)
- Madame Nhu (b. 1924)