A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on August 22 throughout history.
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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.
Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers
English Civil War begins between Royalists and Parliamentarians
King of Great Britain and Ireland, George III, proclaims the American colonies to be in open rebellion and orders his officials to suppress them
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
BBC Television is a service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter, since 1 January 1927.
"Who's That Girl" is a song by American singer Madonna from the soundtrack of the 1987 film of the same name.
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 se
Gustav I, King of Sweden (56) marries his third wife, niece of his second wife Katarina Stenbock (17) at Vadstena Abbey
Soldier and later US President Ulysses S. Grant (26) marries Julia Dent
Oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (44) weds Carrie Estelle Betzold in New Mexico Territory
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)
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
Actress Melissa Gilbert (47) divorces actor Bruce Boxleitner (61) due to irreconcilable differences after 16 long years of marriage
Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor, though unrecognized by Eastern Emperor Theodosius
Saint Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness
Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland
English defeat the Scottish at Cowton Moor, Yorkshire; banners of various saints are carried into battle, leading to the name Battle of the Standard
Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus the Posthmus
Bartolomé Carranza (1503 – 2 May 1576, sometimes called de Miranda or de Carranza y Miranda) was a Navarrese priest of the Dominican Order, theologian and Archbishop of Toledo.
First stones laid in Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam
Tradespeople under Vincent Fettmilch chase and plunder Jews out of the ghetto in Frankfurt
Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern-day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree as one of the first Jewish colonists
Sardinia, officially the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy.
Ann Franklin publishes the Newport Mercury, becoming the first American female editor and publisher and the first woman inducted into the University of Rhode Island's Journalism Hall of Fame
British expedition to find Terra Australis departs Plymouth, England, with two ships captained by Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret, becoming two separate voyages when the ships lose each other entering the Pacific Ocean [1]
HMS Resolution returns to England without Captain James Cook
Fire in Cibali, Istanbul, destroys 7,000 homes
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.
Sierra Leone is settled by British as a haven for former slaves
The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of...
Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt is the first European to rediscover the Nabataean city of Petra in modern-day Jordan
Colonies led by Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake, Utah
José de La Mar becomes President of Peru
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to...
Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice in the first aerial bombing in history
Goldfields discovered in Australia
The First Battle of Rappahannock Station, (also known as Waterloo Bridge, White Sulphur Springs, Lee Springs, and Freeman's Ford) as took place on August 23, 1862, at present-day Remington, Virginia,...
Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications.
Australia's Overland Telegraph Line, one of Australia's greatest logistical and engineering feats, allows fast communication between Australia and the world for the first time [1]
The Treaty of St. Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands
The Henry Ford Company was an automobile manufacturer active from 1901 to 1902. Named after Henry Ford, it was his second company after the Detroit Automobile Company, which had been founded in 1899.
The first Victor Victrola is manufactured by the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled by the Empire of Japan as a colony under the name Chōsen (朝鮮), the Japanese reading of "Joseon". Japan first took Korea into its sphere of influence during the late...
The 1912 Triangular Tournament was a Test cricket competition played between Australia, England and South Africa, the only Test-playing nations at the time. The ultimate winners of the tournament...
The Battle of Rossignol (22 August 1914) one of the first battles of the First World War, was part of the Battle of the Frontiers on the Western Front between the German and French armies.
Pittsburgh Pirates play their fourth straight extra-inning game; left fielder Carson Bigbee sets an MLB record with 11 at-bats in a 22-inning, 6-5 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field
The first Salzburg Festival opens with an outdoor performance of Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal's stage drama "Jedermann" in front of the Salzburg Cathedral
Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
18th International Zionist Congress opens in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
Brazil officially entered World War II on August 22, 1942, when it declared war against the Axis powers, including Germany and Italy.
The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by Nazi Germany's Army Group South against the Soviet Red Army, around the city of Kharkov between...
Desmond Robert Cristofani (14 November 1920 – 21 August 2002) was an Australian cricketer who played 18 first-class matches in the 1940s.
Baseball approves a 168-game schedule but later rescinds it
14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chicago Bears 0 (105,840 attendees)
Abdel Rehim swims across the English Channel in 10 hours and 50 minutes
Harlem Globetrotters play at Olympic Stadium in Berlin before 75,052 spectators
The penal colony of Cayenne (French: Bagne de Cayenne), commonly known as Devil's Island (Île du Diable), was a French penal colony that operated for 100 years, from 1852 to 1952, and officially...
Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina clinches his second Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by winning the Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten in a Maserati
In 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country (after the United States and the Soviet Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty...
American Football League is officially named at a meeting in Dallas, Texas; charter members are Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Cincinnati Reds future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson hits three consecutive home runs (six RBIs) in an 11-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals at Crosley Field
Gil Hodges sets the NL right-handed home run record with #352
Roger Eugene Maris was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in the X-15 rocket plane achieves a world record altitude of 354,200 feet (107,960 m; 67 miles)
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Gloria O. Smith of New York is crowned the second Miss Black America
Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation in district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against internment, which allows suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial
IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs post in Newry, County Down; nine people, including three members of the IRA and five Catholic civilians, are killed in the explosion
Chilean parliament accuses President Allende of violating laws
McNichols Sports Arena was an indoor arena located in Denver, Colorado, United States.
Left-wing Sandinistas revolutionaries occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua
Andrew Albert Christian Edward Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is a member of the House of Windsor.
The 100 metres at the Summer Olympics has been contested since the first edition of the multi-sport event. The men's 100 metres has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1896.
Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes the 11th rookie to strike out 200
Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at Manchester airport, killing 55
Australia unveils its first platinum coin (Koala)
Krisztina Egerszegi is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era.
The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa in 1996 after the end of apartheid.
South Africa beats Australia 29-15 in Johannesburg to win its first Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; Springboks fullback Percy Montgomery lands five penalties and two conversions
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building
The Storm botnet or Storm Worm botnet (also known as Dorf botnet and Ecard malware) was a remotely controlled network of "zombie" computers (or "botnet") that had been linked by the Storm Worm, a...
American decathlete Bryan Clay wins 4 of the 10 events and finishes second in 2 others to dominate the field and take the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Fred Funk wins the last of three Champions Tour majors by one stroke over Michael Allen and Taiwan's Lu Chien-soon
Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by various war monitors, range between 580,000 as of May 2021, and approximately 656,493 as of March 2025.
Suicide by aircraft or aircraft-assisted suicide is an aviation event in which a pilot or another person onboard deliberately crashes or attempts to crash an aircraft as an act of suicide, with or...
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
A vintage Hawker Hunter plane crashes onto the A27 dual carriageway during the Shoreham Airshow in England, killing at least 11 people
Triple talaq (instant divorce) and talaq-e-mughallazah (irrevocable divorce) were a type of Islamic divorce previously available to Muslims in India, especially adherents of Hanafi Sunni Islamic...
Leadership spills of the federal parliamentary leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia were held on 21 and 24 August 2018 and were called by the incumbent leader of the party, Prime Minister...
Bielefeld in Germany offers a €1 million prize to anyone who can prove the town doesn't exist to disprove a 25-year-old conspiracy theory
Fires burning in Northern California are declared a major disaster with the LNU Lightning Complex Fire (341,243 acres) and the SCU Lightning Complex Fire (339,968 acres) among the three largest wildfires in state history
US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Singapore to begin a short visit of South East Asia
Eight people are dramatically rescued from a cable car after 14 hours in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwest Pakistan [1]
A suspicious fire destroys Jay Littleton Ball Park in Ontario, California; the 1937 structure is used for several movies, including "Eight Men Out," "A League of Their Own," and "The Babe"
Norman Schwarzkopf united states army general, known for united states army general, was born on 1934-08-22.
Leni Riefenstahl, German filmmaker, known for german filmmaker, was born on 1902-08-22. Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German filmmaker, photographer, and actress.
James Corden, English actor and comedian, known for english actor and comedian, was born on 1979-08-22.
Dua Lipa, Albanian musician, known for english singer-songwriter and actress, was born on 1996-08-22. Dua Lipa is an English singer and songwriter.
Carl Yastrzemski athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1940-08-22. Carl Michael Yastrzemski Sr.
Bill Parcells, American athlete, known for american football coach, was born on 1942-08-22.
Paul Molitor, American athlete, known for american baseball player and manager, was born on 1957-08-22.
Mats Wilander, Swedish athlete, known for swedish tennis player, was born on 1965-08-22. Mats Arne Olof Wilander is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No.
Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor, though unrecognized by Eastern Emperor Theodosius
Saint Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness
Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland
English defeat the Scottish at Cowton Moor, Yorkshire; banners of various saints are carried into battle, leading to the name Battle of the Standard
Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus the Posthmus
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.
Richard III dies
Gustav I, King of Sweden (56) marries his third wife, niece of his second wife Katarina Stenbock (17) at Vadstena Abbey
Bartolomé Carranza (1503 – 2 May 1576, sometimes called de Miranda or de Carranza y Miranda) was a Navarrese priest of the Dominican Order, theologian and Archbishop of Toledo.
First stones laid in Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam
Tradespeople under Vincent Fettmilch chase and plunder Jews out of the ghetto in Frankfurt
Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers
English Civil War begins between Royalists and Parliamentarians
Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern-day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree as one of the first Jewish colonists
Sardinia, officially the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy.
Ann Franklin publishes the Newport Mercury, becoming the first American female editor and publisher and the first woman inducted into the University of Rhode Island's Journalism Hall of Fame
British expedition to find Terra Australis departs Plymouth, England, with two ships captained by Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret, becoming two separate voyages when the ships lose each other entering the Pacific Ocean [1]
King of Great Britain and Ireland, George III, proclaims the American colonies to be in open rebellion and orders his officials to suppress them
HMS Resolution returns to England without Captain James Cook
Fire in Cibali, Istanbul, destroys 7,000 homes
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.
Sierra Leone is settled by British as a haven for former slaves
The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of...
Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt is the first European to rediscover the Nabataean city of Petra in modern-day Jordan
Colonies led by Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake, Utah
José de La Mar becomes President of Peru
Soldier and later US President Ulysses S. Grant (26) marries Julia Dent
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to...
Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice in the first aerial bombing in history
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 se
Goldfields discovered in Australia
The First Battle of Rappahannock Station, (also known as Waterloo Bridge, White Sulphur Springs, Lee Springs, and Freeman's Ford) as took place on August 23, 1862, at present-day Remington, Virginia,...
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
Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications.
Australia's Overland Telegraph Line, one of Australia's greatest logistical and engineering feats, allows fast communication between Australia and the world for the first time [1]
The Treaty of St. Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands
Oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (44) weds Carrie Estelle Betzold in New Mexico Territory
The Henry Ford Company was an automobile manufacturer active from 1901 to 1902. Named after Henry Ford, it was his second company after the Detroit Automobile Company, which had been founded in 1899.
Leni Riefenstahl, German filmmaker, known for german filmmaker, was born on 1902-08-22. Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German filmmaker, photographer, and actress.
The first Victor Victrola is manufactured by the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled by the Empire of Japan as a colony under the name Chōsen (朝鮮), the Japanese reading of "Joseon". Japan first took Korea into its sphere of influence during the late...
The 1912 Triangular Tournament was a Test cricket competition played between Australia, England and South Africa, the only Test-playing nations at the time. The ultimate winners of the tournament...
The Battle of Rossignol (22 August 1914) one of the first battles of the First World War, was part of the Battle of the Frontiers on the Western Front between the German and French armies.
Pittsburgh Pirates play their fourth straight extra-inning game; left fielder Carson Bigbee sets an MLB record with 11 at-bats in a 22-inning, 6-5 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field
The first Salzburg Festival opens with an outdoor performance of Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal's stage drama "Jedermann" in front of the Salzburg Cathedral
Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary and politician, known for irish revolutionary and politician, died on 1922-08-22.
Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
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)
BBC Television is a service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter, since 1 January 1927.
18th International Zionist Congress opens in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Norman Schwarzkopf united states army general, known for united states army general, was born on 1934-08-22.
Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
Carl Yastrzemski athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1940-08-22. Carl Michael Yastrzemski Sr.
Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
Brazil officially entered World War II on August 22, 1942, when it declared war against the Axis powers, including Germany and Italy.
Bill Parcells, American athlete, known for american football coach, was born on 1942-08-22.
The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by Nazi Germany's Army Group South against the Soviet Red Army, around the city of Kharkov between...
Desmond Robert Cristofani (14 November 1920 – 21 August 2002) was an Australian cricketer who played 18 first-class matches in the 1940s.
Baseball approves a 168-game schedule but later rescinds it
14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chicago Bears 0 (105,840 attendees)
Abdel Rehim swims across the English Channel in 10 hours and 50 minutes
Harlem Globetrotters play at Olympic Stadium in Berlin before 75,052 spectators
The penal colony of Cayenne (French: Bagne de Cayenne), commonly known as Devil's Island (Île du Diable), was a French penal colony that operated for 100 years, from 1852 to 1952, and officially...
Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina clinches his second Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by winning the Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten in a Maserati
Paul Molitor, American athlete, known for american baseball player and manager, was born on 1957-08-22.
In 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country (after the United States and the Soviet Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty...
American Football League is officially named at a meeting in Dallas, Texas; charter members are Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Cincinnati Reds future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson hits three consecutive home runs (six RBIs) in an 11-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals at Crosley Field
Gil Hodges sets the NL right-handed home run record with #352
Roger Eugene Maris was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in the X-15 rocket plane achieves a world record altitude of 354,200 feet (107,960 m; 67 miles)
Mats Wilander, Swedish athlete, known for swedish tennis player, was born on 1965-08-22. Mats Arne Olof Wilander is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
Gloria O. Smith of New York is crowned the second Miss Black America
Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation in district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against internment, which allows suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial
IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs post in Newry, County Down; nine people, including three members of the IRA and five Catholic civilians, are killed in the explosion
Chilean parliament accuses President Allende of violating laws
McNichols Sports Arena was an indoor arena located in Denver, Colorado, United States.
Left-wing Sandinistas revolutionaries occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua
Jomo Kenyatta dies
Andrew Albert Christian Edward Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is a member of the House of Windsor.
James Corden, English actor and comedian, known for english actor and comedian, was born on 1979-08-22.
The 100 metres at the Summer Olympics has been contested since the first edition of the multi-sport event. The men's 100 metres has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1896.
Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes the 11th rookie to strike out 200
Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at Manchester airport, killing 55
"Who's That Girl" is a song by American singer Madonna from the soundtrack of the 1987 film of the same name.
Australia unveils its first platinum coin (Koala)
Krisztina Egerszegi is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era.
The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa in 1996 after the end of apartheid.
Dua Lipa, Albanian musician, known for english singer-songwriter and actress, was born on 1996-08-22. Dua Lipa is an English singer and songwriter.
South Africa beats Australia 29-15 in Johannesburg to win its first Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; Springboks fullback Percy Montgomery lands five penalties and two conversions
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building
The Storm botnet or Storm Worm botnet (also known as Dorf botnet and Ecard malware) was a remotely controlled network of "zombie" computers (or "botnet") that had been linked by the Storm Worm, a...
American decathlete Bryan Clay wins 4 of the 10 events and finishes second in 2 others to dominate the field and take the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Fred Funk wins the last of three Champions Tour majors by one stroke over Michael Allen and Taiwan's Lu Chien-soon
Actress Melissa Gilbert (47) divorces actor Bruce Boxleitner (61) due to irreconcilable differences after 16 long years of marriage
Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by various war monitors, range between 580,000 as of May 2021, and approximately 656,493 as of March 2025.
Suicide by aircraft or aircraft-assisted suicide is an aviation event in which a pilot or another person onboard deliberately crashes or attempts to crash an aircraft as an act of suicide, with or...
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history.
A vintage Hawker Hunter plane crashes onto the A27 dual carriageway during the Shoreham Airshow in England, killing at least 11 people
Triple talaq (instant divorce) and talaq-e-mughallazah (irrevocable divorce) were a type of Islamic divorce previously available to Muslims in India, especially adherents of Hanafi Sunni Islamic...
Leadership spills of the federal parliamentary leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia were held on 21 and 24 August 2018 and were called by the incumbent leader of the party, Prime Minister...
Bielefeld in Germany offers a €1 million prize to anyone who can prove the town doesn't exist to disprove a 25-year-old conspiracy theory
Fires burning in Northern California are declared a major disaster with the LNU Lightning Complex Fire (341,243 acres) and the SCU Lightning Complex Fire (339,968 acres) among the three largest wildfires in state history
US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Singapore to begin a short visit of South East Asia
Eight people are dramatically rescued from a cable car after 14 hours in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwest Pakistan [1]
A suspicious fire destroys Jay Littleton Ball Park in Ontario, California; the 1937 structure is used for several movies, including "Eight Men Out," "A League of Their Own," and "The Babe"