Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 22

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• Reconstruction of Fort Stanwix
  Reconstruction of Fort Stanwix
• Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field by James William Edmund Doyle
  Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field by James William Edmund Doyle
• America
  America
• Henry Dunant
  Henry Dunant
• Hawker Hunter
  Hawker Hunter
• Skyline of Chennai
  Skyline of Chennai
• Signing of the First Geneva Convention
  Signing of the First Geneva Convention
• The ruins of Rossignol
  The ruins of Rossignol
• A girl sits on a street next to the bodies of two other malnourished children
  Photograph of famine in Calcutta published in The Statesman

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Feast day of the Queenship of Mary (Roman Catholic Church);	citation style
1138 – English forces repelled a Scottish army at the Battle of the Standard near Northallerton in Yorkshire.	Quote farm
1910 – Japan annexed Korea 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.	refimprove
1922 – Irish Civil War: Irish National Army commander-in-chief Michael Collins was assassinated in an ambush while en route through County Cork at the village of Béal na mBláth.	refimprove section
1944 – World War II: Wehrmacht infantry carried out an assault operation against the civilian residents of nine villages located in the Amari Valley on the Greek island of Crete.	Ref issues
1989 – Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers struck out the Oakland Athletics' Rickey Henderson, becoming the only pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 5,000 strikeouts.	appears on May 1 (ironically, in the same blurb as Rickey Henderson)
1996 – President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law, representing a major shift in U.S. welfare policy.	original research, expansion
2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashed near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.	refimprove sections
2007 – The Storm botnet, which was created by the Trojan horse Storm Worm, sent out a record Template:Nowrap e-mails in one day.	out of date
Isabella of France |d|1358|	Several cn tags
Luca Marenzio |d|1599|	Several cn tags
Maria Cunitz |d|1664|	Several cn tags
Dorothy Parker |b|1893|	Several tags, large pop culture section
Rodrigo Santoro |b|1975|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 1639 – The Vijayanagara Empire leased a small strip of land in present-day Chennai, the capital of the present-day Indian state of Tamil Nadu, to the East India Company.
• 1642 – King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham, marking the beginning of the First English Civil War.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold used a ruse to convince the British that a much larger force was arriving, causing them to abandon the siege of Fort Stanwix (reconstructed fort pictured).
• 1864 – Under the leadership of Henry Dunant and the International Committee of the Red Cross, twelve European states signed the First Geneva Convention, establishing rules for the protection of victims of armed conflict.
• 1914 – First World War: German forces captured Rossignol in Belgium, taking more than 3,800 French prisoners.
• 1914 – First World War: A squadron of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards attacked a German scout party, the first engagement of British forces on the Western Front.
• 1943 – Ian Stephens, editor of The Statesman, defied British censorship to publish pictures of death and misery (example pictured) on Calcutta's streets, informing the world of the Bengal famine of 1943.
• 1962 – An assassination attempt orchestrated by the OAS takes place against Charles de Gaulle, although he is uninjured.
• 1984 – The constitution of Singapore was amended to apportion seats to defeated opposition candidates in Parliament, which had hitherto entirely comprised members of the People's Action Party.
• 2006 – Grigori Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refused to accept the medal.
• 2012 – A series of ethnic clashes between the Orma and the Pokomo in Kenya's Tana River District resulted in at least 52 deaths.
• 2015 – A former military aircraft crashed at an airshow at Shoreham Airport in southern England, killing eleven people.

• Born/died this day: | Jan Kochanowski |d|1584| Thomas Tredgold |b|1788| Claude Debussy |b|1862| James Newland |b|1881| Bill Woodfull |b|1897| Leni Riefenstahl |b|1902| Francis Birch |b|1903| Deng Xiaoping |b|1904| Ralph Merrifield |b|1913| Denton Cooley |b|1920| Wolfdietrich Schnurre |b|1920| Madame Nhu |b|1924| Alexandros Kontoulis |d|1933| Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. |b|1934| Valerie Harper |b|1939| Steve Davis |b|1957| Birger Nerman |d|1971| Paul Shan Kuo-hsi |d|1971| Juscelino Kubitschek |d|1976| Jomo Kenyatta |d|1978| Faturrahman Embran |b|1999 Mo Drake |d|2021|

Notes

• Hildegard Trabant appears on August 18, so Ida Siekmann should not appear in the same year.
• Kolkata appears on August 24, so Chennai should not appear in the same year

August 22: Madras Day in Chennai, India (1639) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1485 – At the Battle of Bosworth Field, Lancastrian forces under Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeated Yorkist forces under Richard III of England, decisively ending the Wars of the Roses.
• 1711 – Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River.
• 1851 – The yacht America won the race for the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns (trophy pictured), later renamed the America's Cup, near the Isle of Wight, England.
• 1985 – A fire broke out on British Airtours Flight 28M at Manchester Airport, causing 55 deaths mostly due to smoke inhalation, and leading to changes to make aircraft evacuation more effective.
• 2003 – Roy Moore, Alabama's chief justice, was suspended after refusing to comply with a U.S. federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Supreme Court of Alabama building.