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| Birthday August 22, 1836 Archibald M. Willard, American artist (Spirit of '76) |
| Birthday August 22, 1862 Claude Debussy, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune) |
| Birthday August 22, 1909 Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants) |
| Birthday August 22, 1920 Ray Bradbury, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451) |
| Birthday August 22, 1928 Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer |
| Birthday August 22, 1929 Honor Blackman, in London |
| Birthday August 22, 1932 Gerald P. Carr, US astronaut (Skylab 4) |
| Birthday August 22, 1933 Sylvia Koscina |
| Birthday August 22, 1934 Diana Sands |
| Birthday August 22, 1935 Pulitzer Prize-winning author E. Annie Proulx is born |
| Birthday August 22, 1940 Valerie Harper, in Sufferin NY, (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Valerie) |
| Birthday August 22, 1942 Kathy Lennon, singer in Santa Monica |
| Birthday August 22, 1947 Cindy Williams, Actress (Laverne & Shirley) in Van Nuys Cal |
| Birthday August 22, 1949 Diana Nyad Swimmer |
| History August 22, 1485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets |
| History August 22, 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field |
| History August 22, 1776 Redcoats land at Long Island |
| History August 22, 1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests years before Fulton |
| History August 22, 1848 Ulysses S. Grant marries |
| History August 22, 1851 U.S. wins first America's Cup |
| History August 22, 1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia |
| History August 22, 1862 Lincoln replies to Horace Greeley |
| History August 22, 1864 International Red Cross founded |
| History August 22, 1864 Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations |
| History August 22, 1898 Hired killer Jim Miller joins Texas Rangers |
| History August 22, 1914 Heavy casualties suffered in the Battles of the Frontiers |
| History August 22, 1922 Michael Collins assassinated |
| History August 22, 1927 Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers |
| History August 22, 1933 The Barker clan kills an officer in their fruitless robbery |
| History August 22, 1938 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers grace Life cover |
| History August 22, 1944 Romania captured by the Soviet Union |
| History August 22, 1961 Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers |
| History August 22, 1962 Kennedy reports stalemate in Vietnam |
| History August 22, 1962 Citroen helps De Gaulle survive assassination attempt |
| History August 22, 1963 NASA's X-15 attains altitude of 67 miles |
| History August 22, 1963 Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 106 km |
| History August 22, 1967 Graduated bombing policy condemned |
| History August 22, 1968 VC repudiates Johnson's peace overture |
| History August 22, 1968 Czechs protest against Soviet invasion |
| History August 22, 1969 Zager and Evans end a six-week run at #1 with their smash-hit In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" |
| History August 22, 1972 Demonstrators disrupt Republican National Convention in Miami Beach |
| History August 22, 1989 Nolan Ryan registers 5,000th strikeout |
| History August 22, 1992 Hurricane Andrew pounds Bahamas |
| History August 22, 1992 Incident at Ruby Ridge |