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August 22 is the 234th day of the year ... "Historical Events on August 22". OnThisDay.com. This page was last edited on 12 October 2024, at 12:29 ...
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August 22: Madras Day in Chennai, India 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) .
August 22: Madras Day in Chennai, India Photograph of famine in Calcutta published in The Statesman 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 22, 1922: Provisional Irish Free State chairman Michael Collins killed in an ambush during the Irish Civil War August 4, 1922: All telephones in the United States cease for one minute of silence in honor of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell. The following events occurred in August 1922:
August 22, 2023 at 7:05 AM. The record-breaking film “Barbie” has been unseated from the top of the US box office, ... How this rodeo keeps a forgotten part of Black history alive
1779 – Francis Scott Key, author of the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner", is born.; 1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts when white Irish Catholics attack 1,000 African-American members of the Young Men's Vigilant Association who were parading in celebration of the end of slavery in the British West Indies.
August 22 – Earliest evidence of a death and injury by a meteorite in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. August 24 –The first trams in Tallinn , horsecars, begin operation. August 31 – Whitechapel murders: The mutilated body of London prostitute Mary Ann Nichols is found; she is considered the first victim of Jack the Ripper. September 4