Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 22
This is a list of selected August 22 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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| 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. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1950 – Althea Gibson entered into the U.S. Tennis Championships, becoming the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour. | Need to verify date |
| 1989 – Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers struck out the Oakland Athletics' Rickey Henderson, becoming the first pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 5,000 strikeouts. | Tagged with blp-refimprove |
| 2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Trojan horse Storm Worm, sent out a record 57 million e-mails in one day. | Tagged with {{update}} |
Eligible
- 1138 – English forces repelled a Scottish army at the Battle of the Standard near Northallerton in Yorkshire.
- 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.
- 1642 – King Charles I of England 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 eights ships wrecked on the Saint Lawrence River.
- 1791 – A slave rebellion erupted in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, starting the Haitian Revolution.
- 1851 – The yacht America won the first America's Cup race near the Isle of Wight, England.
- 1864 – The Red Cross movement led by Henry Dunant officially began when twelve European nations signed the First Geneva Convention, establishing the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- 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.
August 22: Feast Day of the Queenship of Mary (Roman Catholic Church); Madras Day in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- 1639 – The East India Company bought a small strip of land on what is today Chennai, the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, from the King of the Vijayanagara Empire, Peda Venkata Raya.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold used a devious ruse to convince the British that a much larger force was arriving, causing them to abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix (reconstructed fort pictured).
- 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.
- 1989 – The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings.
- 2006 – Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashed near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.