Hisdates•ComHistorical Events In August - 22
Sunday, 01 October 2023
1973 Louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77 on August - 22. 
1974 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66 on this day in history.
1976 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, pres of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73 on August - 22.
1977 Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59 on this day in history.
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 Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78 on August - 22.
1979 Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69 on this day in history.
1982 On this day in history gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
1984 On this day in history rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan and VP Bush
1984 On this day in history charles Whittenberg, composer, dies at 57
1985 On this day in history ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies
1986 On this day in history nASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
1987 Madonna's "Who's "That Girl," single goes #1 on this day in history.
1988 Australia unveils first platinum coin (Koala) on August - 22.
1988 On this day in history nBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1989 The first complete ring around Neptune discovered on this day in history.
1990 On this day in history pres Bush calls up military reserves
1990 On August - 22 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 Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide on this day in history.
1993 Don Getz, US filmer (Playpoint) on this day in history.
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 August - 22.
2005 On August - 22 a 4.1-kg (9-pound) meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving a 15-cm (6-inch) crater.
2006 On August - 22 pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children.
2006 The ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems. Perelman refuses the medal on this day in history.
2007 On August - 22 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.
2012 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war on August - 22.
2013 On this day in history 14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq
2014 2nd Ebola death in Nigera, Africa’s most populated country on August - 22.
2017 On August - 22 india's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq)
2017 Missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA eividence on August - 22.
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 this day in history discovery of a bone of a 90,000 hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan from Anuy River, Siberia published in "Nature"