August 22

Sunday 22, 2004:

The Scream, the painting by Edvard Munch, is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

Wednesday 22, 2001:

the Trojan room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.

Saturday 22, 1992:

FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

Tuesday 22, 1989:

Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first major league baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.

Monday 22, 1988:

The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued

Tuesday 22, 1972:

Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies

Thursday 22, 1968:

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America

Wednesday 22, 1962:

The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage

Saturday 22, 1953:

The jail on Devil's Island is closed

Tuesday 22, 1950:

Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis

Tuesday 22, 1944:

1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.

Saturday 22, 1942:

World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)

Friday 22, 1941:

World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad

Sunday 22, 1926:

Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa

Tuesday 22, 1922:

Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.

Saturday 22, 1914:

World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.

Tuesday 22, 1911:

Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered

Monday 22, 1910:

Japan annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.

Friday 22, 1902:

Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile

Thursday 22, 1901:

Cadillac Motor Company founded

Monday 22, 1864:

Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.

Sunday 22, 1875:

The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

Friday 22, 1851:

The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

Saturday 22, 1846:

The United States annexes New Mexico

Wednesday 22, 1798:

French troops land in County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion

Monday 22, 1791:

Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue

Tuesday 22, 1780:

James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)

Tuesday 22, 1775:

King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion

Wednesday 22, 1770:

James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia

Sunday 22, 1717:

Spanish troops land on Sardinia

Saturday 22, 1654:

Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States

Friday 22, 1642:

Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War

Saturday 22, 1559:

Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy

Saturday 22, 1485:

The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses

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