August 22nd

August 22 is the 235th day of the year.  There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year.

565 St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness. Of course, Columba is an Irishman. . .

1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers who were notoriously fancy dressers and cut-ups. Nyuk. Nyuk. Nyuk.

1715 Handel’s Watermusic premiers on the Thames.

1818 Grand Duchy of Bathe forms

1864 Geneva Convention is signed in blood by 12 nations and hence, the International Red Cross forms

1877 Nez Perce Indians flee into Yellowstone National Park which isn’t a national park yet.

1901 Cadillac Motor Company is founded and subsequently. . .

1902 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

1906 1st Victor Victrola is manufactured

1944 Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed.  It isn't.

1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup, stirs up a bunch of shit about Domino’s Pizza winning hearts and minds. The ho.

1952 The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed and longtime lovers must part, alas.

1968 Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry. Ooh, juicy gossip. . .

. . .I wonder who is named as co-respondent?

1988 Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)

1995 S-s-s-smokin' hot FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Starts some major shit.

1918 Mary McGrory, maybe gay US journalist and columnist/Nixon's enemy list

1924 James Kirkwood, Jr., gay US author/playwright/A chorus Line, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead 

1932 Gabriele Tinti, Italian actor 

1958 Colm Feore, US-born Canadian actor 

1967 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, English actor/OZ/LOST 

1967 Ant [Anthony Steven Kalloniatis], gay US comedian

1971 Richard Armitage, maybe gay English actor 

1971 Rick Yune, maybe gay US actor/model 

1973 Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter 

1974 Agustin Pichot, Argentine rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1975 Rodrigo Santoro, maybe gay Brazilian actor/LOST 

1983 Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist  

1485 Richard III and the House of Plantagenet can't find a horse at Bosworth Field

1989 Huey P. Newton, US activist (Black Panthers), becomes an inactivist.