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Events on August 22

• 1485 At the Battle of Bosworth Field, Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, defeats Richard III, King of the House of York, who falls in the battle. This ends the Wars of the Roses over the English throne. The House of Tudor takes power in England.
• 1642 The English Civil War between Royalists and Parliamentarians begins.
• 1851 The 100 Guinea Cup is held off the Isle of Wight. Following the cup’s first winner, the schooner America, the event is thereafter known only as the America’s Cup.
• 1864 Twelve states sign the first Geneva Convention, the foundation of international humanitarian law.
• 1920 With Max Reinhardt’s staging of Everyman by Hugo von Hofmannsthal on Salzburg Cathedral Square, the first Salzburg Festival begins.
• 1950 In Germany, Technische Hilfswerk (THW) is founded as a federal civil protection and disaster relief organization.
• 1976 Evangelical pastor Oskar Brüsewitz, who set himself on fire in a public street in Zeitz on August 18 to protest human rights violations in the GDR, dies from his injuries.
• 1981 The Voyager 2 space probe passes Saturn’s moon Iapetus and sends the first images to Earth.
• 1992 The xenophobic riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen begin with a gathering in front of the Central Reception Center for Asylum Seekers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (ZASt) in the Rostock district of Lichtenhagen.
• 1999 The GPS week counter for the Global Positioning System satellite navigation system reaches GPS week 1023 and thus maximum utilization. It is reset to 0 and is therefore once again dated back to January 6, 1980. No expected failures occur.
• 2004 In an armed robbery, masked perpetrators steal the two paintings The Scream and Madonna by Edvard Munch from the Munch Museum in Oslo, while at the same time an attack on a cash transport vehicle takes place elsewhere in Oslo, during which a police officer is shot.
• 2024 The American Western Horizon: An American Saga opens in German cinemas.

Born on August 22

• 1862 Claude Debussy, French composer
• 1880 Gorch Fock, German writer
• 1902 Leni Riefenstahl, German dancer, actress and director
• 1920 Ray Bradbury, American writer and screenwriter
• 1951 Hans-Joachim Flebbe, German entrepreneur, founder of CinemaxX AG
• 1970 Ricco Groß, German biathlete
• 1981 Christina Obergföll, German track and field athlete
• 1982 Boys Noize, German music producer and DJ
• 1993 Laura Dahlmeier, German biathlete
• 1995 Dua Lipa, British-Albanian singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „22. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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