Major Events
- 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor‘s forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle.
- 1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers
- 1642 English Civil War begins between Royalists and Parliamentarians
Aug 22 in Film & TV
- 1932 BBC begins experimental regular television broadcasts
Aug 22 in Music
Aug 22 in Sport
- 1851 100 Guineas Cup is raced around Isle of Wight; US schooner ‘America’ beats British cutter ‘Aurora’ by 24 minutes; first competition for the America’s Cup yachting trophy
Did You Know?
Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice in the first air raid in history
Famous Weddings
- 1552 Gustav I, King of Sweden (56) marries his third wife, niece of his second wife Katarina Stenbock (17) at Vadstena Abbey
- 1848 Soldier and later US President Ulysses S. Grant (26) marries Julia Dent
- 1900 Oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (44) weds Carrie Estelle Betzold in New Mexico Territory
Famous Divorces
- 1927 Actor Charlie Chaplin divorces his 2nd wife Lita Grey after 3 years of marriage in the largest divorce settlement at the time (US$600,000, plus trusts for children)
- 1968 Cynthia Lennon sues Beatle member John Lennon for divorce on grounds of adultery
- 2011 Actress Melissa Gilbert (47) divorces actor Bruce Boxleitner (61) due to irreconcilable differences after 16 long years of marriage
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