August 22

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[edit] Events

• 1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
• 1775 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
• 1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
• 1831 - Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred Negroes who were killed in retaliation for the uprising
• 1848 - The United States annexes New Mexico.
• 1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
• 1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 1941 - World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
• 1944 - World War II: Romania falls to the Soviet Union.
• 1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• 1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.

[edit] Births

• 1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Ray Bradbury, American writer

[edit] Deaths

• 1922 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)
• 1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya (b. c. 1892)
• 1989 - Huey P. Newton, Black Panther (b. 1942)