August 22 in History

Historical Events on August 22

1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

1717 Spanish troops land on Sardinia.

1791 Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.

1894 Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.

1902 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.

1941 World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.

1972 Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.

1978 The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.

2003 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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Famous Birthdays on August 22

1904 Deng Xiaoping

1928 Karlheinz Stockhausen

1957 Steve Davis

1995 Dua Lipa

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Famous Deaths on August 22

1485 Richard III of England

1922 Michael Collins (Irish leader)

1978 Jomo Kenyatta

2011 Jack Layton

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