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This Day In History – August 22
1639 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
1831 – Nat Turner’s slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
1864 – 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, 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.
1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na mBláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1950 – Lewis Libby, American White House Chief of Staff for George W. Bush was born.
1961 – Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
2012-08-21 19:36:33
Source: http://deadlinelive.info/2012/08/21/this-day-in-history-august-22/
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