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565Aug 22St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness.
1138Aug 22English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor. Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to its being called Battle of the Standard.
1350Aug 22John II, also known as John the Good, succeeded Philip VI as king of France.
1543Aug 22French and Ottoman forces captured Nice following a siege of the city. Admiral Barbarossa led the Ottoman fleet in the campaign.
1559Aug 22Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza was arrested as a heretic.
1614Aug 22Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chased and plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt.
1654Aug 22Jacob Barsimson, the 1st Jewish immigrant to US, arrived in New Amsterdam.
1717Aug 22The Austrian army forced the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans
1762Aug 22Ann Franklin became the first female editor of an American newspaper, the Newport, Rhode Island “Mercury.”
1777Aug 22With the approach of General Benedict Arnold’s army, British Colonel Barry St. Ledger abandoned Fort Stanwix and returns to Canada.
1780Aug 22HMS Resolution returned to England without Capt Cook.
1791Aug 22A Haitian slave revolution began under voodoo priest Boukman.
1793Aug 22Louis Duke de Noailles (80), marshal of France, was guillotined.
1826Aug 22Colonies under Jebediah Strong Smith moved near Salt Lake Utah
1828Aug 22Franz Joseph Gall (70), German-French physician, fraud (phrenology), died.
1849Aug 22The Portuguese governor of Macao, China, was assassinated because of his anti-Chinese policies.
1862Aug 22Santee Sioux attacked Fort Ridgely, Minn.
1877Aug 22Nez Perce fled into Yellowstone National Park.
1900Aug 22Gabriel Fauré’s opera “Promethee,” premiered in Beziers.
1902Aug 22President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. chief executive to ride in an automobile in Hartford, Conn.
1906Aug 22The 1st Victor Victrola was manufactured.
1910Aug 22Japan annexed Korea following 5 years as a protectorate and ruled for 35 years.
1914Aug 22In France some 27,000 soldiers died in the bloodiest battle of French history.
1921Aug 22J. Edgar Hoover became asst. director of FBI.
1941Aug 22Nazi troops reached Leningrad.
1944Aug 22Hitler ordered Paris to be destroyed.
1945Aug 22Soviet troops landed at Port Arthur and Dairen on the Kwantung Peninsula in China.
1953Aug 22Shah of Persia returned to Teheran
1962Aug 22Savannah, world’s 1st nuclear powered ship, completed her maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va., to Savannah, Ga.
1966Aug 22The Beatles arrived in NYC.
1968Aug 22Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.
1972Aug 22US Congress created the Idaho’s Sawtooth National Recreation Area.
1974Aug 22Jacob Bronowski (b.1908), British mathematician, cultural historian, died in East Hampton, NY.
1978Aug 22Sandinistas occupied the National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua.
1979Aug 22James T. Farrell (b.1904), author (Young Lonigan), died. In 2004 Robert K. Landers authored “The Life and Times of James T. Farrell.”
1984Aug 22The Republican convention in Dallas renominated Ronald Reagan.
1986Aug 22Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood (1946-1974) $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.
1987Aug 22The supertanker Bridgeton and three other reflagged Kuwaiti tankers left Kuwait under U.S. escort and safely cleared Persian Gulf waters where the Bridgeton had hit a mine the month before.
1989Aug 22Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers struck out his 5,000th batter, Rickey Henderson.
1990Aug 22President Bush signed an order calling up reservists to bolster the US military buildup in the Persian Gulf.
1991Aug 22The Supreme Court of Canada struck down the so-called rape shield law, which said the previous sexual conduct of a rape victim could not be used in court.
1992Aug 22Neo-Nazi violence against foreigners erupted in Rostock, Germany.
1993Aug 22NASA engineers continued trying, without success, to re-establish contact with the Mars Observer, a day after losing contact.
1994Aug 22DNA testing linked OJ Simpson to the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.
1996Aug 22The US Army began operating an incinerator in Utah to destroy a 14,000 ton stockpile of chemical weapons over 7 years.
1997Aug 22A federal judge rejected Pres. Clinton’s request to dismiss the sexual harassment suit of Paula Jones. The trial was scheduled to start May 27, 1998.
1998Aug 22President Clinton, in his Saturday radio address, announced he had signed an executive order putting Osama bin Laden’s Islamic Army on a list of terrorist groups.
1999Aug 22The US Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that the number of Americans on parole topped 4 million for the first time.
2000Aug 22Publishers Clearing House agreed to pay $18 million to 24 states and the District of Columbia to settle allegations it had used deceptive promotions in its sweepstakes mailings.
2001Aug 22Sen. Jesse Helms (79) of North Carolina confirmed that he would not seek re-election next year.
2002Aug 22In Oregon President Bush proposed to end the government’s “hands-off” policy in national forests and ease logging restrictions in fire-prone areas.
2003Aug 22Roy Moore, Alabama’s chief justice, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse.
2004Aug 22In the Olympics Justin Gatlin of the US won the 10-meter dash in 9.85 sec.
2005Aug 22During a speech in Salt Lake City, President Bush compared the fight against terrorism to both world wars and other great conflicts of the 20th century.
2006Aug 22US sprinter Justin Gatlin agreed to an 8-year ban for doping and will forfeit his 100m world-record tie, set May 12 at the Qatar Super Grand Prix in Doha.
2007Aug 22It was reported that some US lawyers in NYC had crossed the $1,000 per hour billing mark.
   
2008Aug 22The Outside Lands rock festival opened in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to a capacity crowd of some 60,000. Altogether some 150,000 attended the 3-day event.
2009Aug 22Vicki Cruse (40) from Santa Paula, Calif., died in an accident during the World Aerobatic Championships at Britain’s Silverstone motor racing circuit. She was a former member of the US national aerobatics team and was the first woman to qualify to race in her class at the Reno National Championship Air Races.
2010Aug 22Thousands of fish turned up dead at the mouth of Mississippi River, prompting authorities to check whether oil was the cause of mass death. Crabs, sting rays, eel, drum, speckled trout and red fish were among the species that turned up dead.
2011Aug 22The Cherokee nation, the USA’s second-largest Indian tribe, formally booted from membership thousands of descendants of black slaves who were brought to Oklahoma more than 170 years ago by Native American owners.
2012Aug 22In China students at Shanghai’s Sheshan Catholic seminary learned that classes would be suspended indefinitely.
2013Aug 22The US Justice Dept. said it will sue Texas over the state’s voter ID law and seek to intervene in a lawsuit over the state’s redistricting laws.
2014Aug 22The Obama administration accused a Chinese fighter jet of conducting a “dangerous intercept” of a US Navy surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of China in international airspace.

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