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Day Of The Week: August 22
August 22, 2025 is the 234th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 22
- 392 –Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
- 1559 –Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
- 1827 –José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
- 1910 –Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
- 1914 –World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
- 1949 –Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada’s largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
- 1968 –Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
- 1972 –Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
- 1989 –Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
- 1992 –FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
Who were born on August 22?
- 1601 –Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
- 1800 –William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
- 1822 –Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
- 1908 –Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- 1913 –Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
- 1920 –Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
- 1971 –Rick Yune, American actor
- 1979 –Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian-born actress
- 1979 –Matt Walters, American football player
- 1986 –Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress
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