August 22nd, 2299

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August 22nd, 2015

A former military aircraft crashed at an airshow at Shoreham Airport in southern England, killing eleven people.

August 22nd, 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.

August 22nd, 1984

The constitution of Singapore was amended to apportion seats to defeated opposition candidates in Parliament, which had hitherto entirely comprised members of the People's Action Party.

August 22nd, 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.

August 22nd, 1914

First World War: A squadron of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards attacked a German scout party, the first engagement of British forces on the Western Front.

August 22nd, 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.

August 22nd, 1851

The yacht America won the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns race, later renamed the America's Cup, near the Isle of Wight, England.

August 22nd, 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).

August 22nd, 1711

Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River.

August 22nd, 1642

King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham, marking the beginning of the First English Civil War.

August 22nd, 1639

The Vijayanagara Empire leased a small strip of land in present-day Chennai, the capital of the present-day Indian state of Tamil Nadu, to the East India Company.

August 22nd, 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.

August 22nd, 2007

The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.

August 22nd, 2006

Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.

August 22nd, 2004

Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 22nd

Birthdays and future age on August 22nd, 2299

320

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

357

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

311

Minelli

Romanian singer-songwriter

*August 22nd, 1988, Slobozia

304

Dua Lipa

English and Albanian singer (born 1995)

*August 22nd, 1995, Westminster

328

Richard Armitage

English actor

*August 22nd, 1971, Huncote

321

James Corden

English actor, comedian, singer and television host

*August 22nd, 1978, Hillingdon

326

Laurent Lafitte

French actor

*August 22nd, 1973, Fresnes

316

Theo Bos

Dutch road cyclist and track cyclist

*August 22nd, 1983, Hierden

329

Ricco Groß

German biathlete

*August 22nd, 1970, Bad Schlema

305

Israel Broussard

American actor

*August 22nd, 1994, Gulfport

354

Ron Dante

American musician, songwriter, record producer

*August 22nd, 1945, Staten Island

326

Kristen Wiig

American actress and comedian

*August 22nd, 1973, Canandaigua

329

Jeannette Arndt

German actress and director

*August 22nd, 1970, Berlin

347

Rudy Ricciotti

French architect

*August 22nd, 1952, Kouba

363

Werner Stengel

German engineer; roller coaster designer

*August 22nd, 1936, Bochum

335

Mats Wilander

Swedish tennis player

*August 22nd, 1964, Växjö

325

Peter Tauber

German politician

*August 22nd, 1974, Frankfurt

336

Tori Amos

American singer-songwriter and pianist

*August 22nd, 1963, Newton

340

Mark Williams

English actor, comedian, screenwriter and presenter

*August 22nd, 1959, Bromsgrove

342

Steve Davis

English snooker player

*August 22nd, 1957, Plumstead

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