Major Events
- 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor‘s forces defeat English King Richard III during the last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, becoming the last English monarch to die in battle.
- 1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers
- 1642 English Civil War begins between Royalists and Parliamentarians
- 1775 King of Great Britain and Ireland, George III, proclaims the American colonies to be in open rebellion and orders his officials to suppress them
- 1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field” is signed by 12 nations
Aug 22 in Film & TV
- 1932 BBC begins experimental regular television broadcasts
Aug 22 in Music
Aug 22 in Sport
- 1851 The 100 Guineas Cup yacht race is held around the Isle of Wight, the first race of the oldest international sporting competition now known as the America’s Cup. In the race, US schooner “America” beats the British cutter “Aurora” by 24 minutes, prompting spectator Queen Victoria to ask who was in second place and the famous reply, “Your majesty, there is no second.”
Did You Know?
Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice in the first aerial bombing in history
Famous Weddings
- 1552 Gustav I, King of Sweden (56) marries his third wife, niece of his second wife Katarina Stenbock (17) at Vadstena Abbey
- 1848 Soldier and later US President Ulysses S. Grant (26) marries Julia Dent
- 1900 Oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (44) weds Carrie Estelle Betzold in New Mexico Territory
Famous Divorces
- 1927 Actor Charlie Chaplin divorces his 2nd wife Lita Grey after 3 years of marriage in the largest divorce settlement at the time (US$600,000, plus trusts for children)
- 1968 Cynthia Lennon sues Beatle member John Lennon for divorce on grounds of adultery
- 2011 Actress Melissa Gilbert (47) divorces actor Bruce Boxleitner (61) due to irreconcilable differences after 16 long years of marriage
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