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Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field by James William Edmund Doyle -
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Signing of the First Geneva Convention -
The ruins of Rossignol -
Photograph of famine in Calcutta published in The Statesman
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast day of the Queenship of Mary (Roman Catholic Church); | citation style |
| 1138 – English forces repelled a Scottish army at the Battle of the Standard near Northallerton in Yorkshire. | Quote farm |
| 1910 – Japan annexed Korea with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II. | refimprove |
| 1922 – Irish Civil War: Irish National Army commander-in-chief Michael Collins was assassinated in an ambush while en route through County Cork at the village of Béal na mBláth. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – World War II: Wehrmacht infantry carried out an assault operation against the civilian residents of nine villages located in the Amari Valley on the Greek island of Crete. | Ref issues |
| 1989 – Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers struck out the Oakland Athletics' Rickey Henderson, becoming the only pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 5,000 strikeouts. | appears on May 1 (ironically, in the same blurb as Rickey Henderson) |
| 1996 – President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law, representing a major shift in U.S. welfare policy. | original research, expansion |
| 2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashed near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. | refimprove sections |
| 2007 – The Storm botnet, which was created by the Trojan horse Storm Worm, sent out a record 57 million e-mails in one day. | out of date |
| Isabella of France |d|1358| | Several cn tags |
| Luca Marenzio |d|1599| | Several cn tags |
| Maria Cunitz |d|1664| | Several cn tags |
| Dorothy Parker |b|1893| | Several tags, large pop culture section |
Eligible
- 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.
- 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.
- 1642 – King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham, marking the beginning of the First English Civil War.
- 1711 – Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River.
- 1851 – The yacht America won the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns race, later renamed the America's Cup, near the Isle of Wight, England.
- 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.
- 1943 – Ian Stephens, editor of The Statesman, defied British censorship to publish pictures of death and misery (example pictured) on Calcutta's streets, informing the world of the Bengal famine of 1943.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2015 – A former military aircraft crashed at an airshow at Shoreham Airport in southern England, killing eleven people.
- Born/died this day: |John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland |d|1553| Claude Debussy |b|1862| George Herriman |b|1880| James Newland |b|1881| Bill Woodfull |b|1897| Leni Riefenstahl |b|1902| Francis Birch |b|1903| Ralph Merrifield |b|1913| Denton Cooley |b|1920| Wolfdietrich Schnurre |b|1920| Alexandros Kontoulis |d|1933| Steve Davis |b|1957 |Birger Nerman |d|1971
Notes
- Hildegard Trabant appears on August 18, so Ida Siekmann should not appear in the same year.
- Kolkata appears on August 24, so Chennai should not appear in the same year
August 22: Madras Day in Chennai, India (1639)
Reconstruction of Fort Stanwix
- 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).
- 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.
- 1914 – First World War: German forces captured Rossignol in Belgium, taking more than 3,800 French prisoners.
- 1962 – An assassination attempt orchestrated by the OAS takes place against Charles de Gaulle, although he is uninjured.
- 2012 – A series of ethnic clashes between the Orma and the Pokomo in Kenya's Tana River District resulted in at least 52 deaths.
- Jan Kochanowski (d. 1584)
- Thomas Tredgold (b. 1788)
- Madame Nhu (b. 1924)
- Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (b. 1934)