22 August

The **22nt o August** is the 234t day o the year (235t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 131 days bidin.

## Events

 
*476 - Odoacer is proclaimed bi Wast Roman mercenaries as King o Italy.
*1138 - Battle o the Standard atween Scotland an Ingland near Northallerton, Yorkshire.
*1485 - King Richard III o Ingland faws at the Battle o Bosworth Field. Henry VII o Ingland becomes the first Keeng frae the Tudor dynasty.
*1639 - The ceety o Madras (nou Chennai) in the present-day Indie state o Tamil Nadu is foondit.
*1717 - Spaingie troops land o Sardinie.
*1770 - James Cook lands on the east coast o Australie.
*1848 - The Unitit States annexes New Mexico.
*1851 - Gowd is dscoverit in Australie.
*1851 - The schooner "America" wins the 100 Guineas Cup sailin event at the Isle o Wight; the competition becomes kent as the America's Cup as a result.
*1910 - Japan annexes Korea.
*1922 - Erse poleetical leader Michael Collins is assassinatit in Coonty Cork.
*1926 - Gowd is discoverit in Johannesburg, Sooth Africae.
*1941 - Warld War II: German troops reach Leningrad.
*1942 - Warld War II: Brazil declares war on Germany, Italy an Japan.
*1962 - An assassination attempt is made on French Preses Charles de Gaulle.
*1972 - Trelew massacre: Killin o 16 Argentine poleetical preesoners in Chubut province bi the conservative militar govrenment o the kintra.
*1973 - Henry Kissinger becomes Unitit States Secretar o State.
*1981 - The Voyager 2 space probe photographs Saturn's muin Iapetus.
*1985 - An aircraft fire at Manchester Airport kills 55 fowk.
*1989 - The first ring o the planet Neptune is discoverit.
*2003 - A racket splodes at the Alcantara spaceport, Maranhao, Brazil, killin 21 fowk.
*2004 - The pentin The Scream bi Edvard Munch is stolen frae a museum in Oslo, Norawa. It is recoverit twa year later.
*2006 - Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flicht 62 crashes in Eastren Ukraine, killin 170 fowk.
*2011 - Libie Ceevil War: Rebel forces enter Tripoli, Libie.
*2015 - Shoreham Airshow Disaster: A plane at an airshow crashes intae the motorway near Shoreham, Soothren Ingland, killin 11 fowk.
*2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The recordit daith toll frae COVID-19 reaches 800,000.

## Births

*1760 - Pape Leo XII (d. 1829)
*1809 - John Hill Burton, Scots advocate, historian an economist (d. 1881)
*1862 - Claude Debussy, French componer (d. 1918)
*1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German filmmaker (d. 2003)
*1904 - Deng Xiaoping, leader o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (d. 1997)
*1917 - Fred Stobaugh, American sangster-sangwriter (d. 2016) 
*1920 - Ray Bradbury, American screiver (d. 2012)
*1925 - Honor Blackman, Inglis actress (d. 2020)
*1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German componer (d. 2007)
*1943 - Alun Michael, Welsh politeecian
*1944 - Tom Leonard, Scots poet (d. 2018)
*1951 - Alex Neil, Scots politeecian
*1957 - Steve Davis, Inglis snooker player
*1963 - Tori Amos, American sangster
*1964 - Mats Wilander, Swadish tennis player
*1971 - Richard Armitage, Inglis actor
*1973 - Kristen Wiig, American actress
*1975 - Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
*1978 - James Corden, Inglis actor an telly presenter
*1991 - Federico Macheda, Italian fitbawer
*1995 - Dua Lipa, Inglis sangster an sangwriter

## Daiths
*1241 - Pape Gregory IX
*1280 - Pape Nicholas III
*1350 - King Philip VI o Fraunce (b. 1293)
*1485 - King Richard III o Ingland (b. 1452)
*1861 - Xianfeng Emperor o Cheenae (b. 1830)
*1880 - John Imray, Scots medicinar, legislator, agriculturist an botanist (b. 1811)
*1895 - Charles Mitchell, Scots shipbigger (b. 1820)
*1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess o Salisbury, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1830)
*1922 - Michael Collins, Erse politeecian (b. 1890)
*1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, French screiver (b. 1881)
*1959 - David Meiklejohn, Scots fitbawer (b. 1900)
*1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, 1st Preses o Kenyae (b. 1891) 
*2001 - Johnny Anderson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1929)
*2001 - Bobby Johnstone, Scots fitbawer (b. 1929)
*2011 - Jack Layton, Canadian politeecian (b. 1950)
*2011 - Loriot, German comedian, actor an writer (b. 1923)
*2020 - Allan Rich, American actor (b. 1926)

## Halidays
* Flag Day (Roushie)