Historical Events In August - 22

1973  Louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77 on August - 22.  

1974  On this day in history jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66  

1976  Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, pres of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1977  Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59 on August - 22.  

1978  On August - 22 tear gas used to quell riot by 150 prisoners in Sydney's Long Bay Jail who set fire to their cells  

1978  On this day in history ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78  

1979  Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1982  Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence on this day in history.  

1984  Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan and VP Bush on this day in history.  

1984  On August - 22 charles Whittenberg, composer, dies at 57  

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1985  On August - 22 ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies  

1986  NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics on this day in history.  

1987  On August - 22 madonna's "Who's "That Girl," single goes #1  

1988  On August - 22 australia unveils first platinum coin (Koala)  

1988  On August - 22 nBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)  

1989  The first complete ring around Neptune discovered on August - 22.  

1990  On this day in history pres Bush calls up military reserves  

1990  On this day in history scores of angry smokers block street near Moscow's Red Square for hours to protest summer-long cigarette shortage.  

1990  Merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45 on August - 22.  

1991  On August - 22 boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide  

1993  On August - 22 don Getz, US filmer (Playpoint)  

1994  On August - 22 canadian icebreaker Louis St-Laurent reaches the North Magnetic Pole.  

1994  Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80 on this day in history.  

2005  A 4.1-kg (9-pound) meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving a 15-cm (6-inch) crater on August - 22.  

2006  On August - 22 pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children.  

2006  On August - 22 the ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems. Perelman refuses the medal.  

2007  The Texas Rangers score thirty runs in one game, setting the modern (post-1900) MLB record for most runs by one team in a single game, in a 30-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on August - 22.  

2012  47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war on August - 22.  

2013  14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq on this day in history.  

2014  2nd Ebola death in Nigera, Africa’s most populated country on this day in history.  

2017  On August - 22 india's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq)  

2017  On this day in history missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA eividence  

2018  Longest ever bull market for Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index at 3,453 days (using 19.9 percent decline in 1990 as the start, usually 20%) on this day in history.  

2018  On August - 22 discovery of a bone of a 90,000 hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan from Anuy River, Siberia published in "Nature"  

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1530  On this day in history birth of bartolomeo Spontone, composer  

1601  Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667) was born on this day in history.  

1615  On August - 22 birth of christopher Gibbons, composer  

1624  Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701) was born on August - 22.  

1647  On this day in history birth of denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine)  

1679  Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758) was born on this day in history.  

1681  Pierre Danican Philidor, composer was born on this day in history.  

1753  Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer was born on August - 22.  

0408  Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48 on this day in history.  

0634  Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies on this day in history.  

1155  Death of Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139) on August - 22.  

1188  On August - 22 death of ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)  

1241  On this day in history gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies  

1280  Nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies on August - 22.  

1286  On this day in history death of erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered  

1304  Death of John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247) on this day in history.