On This day August 22nd

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August 22nd is the two hundredth-thirty-fourth day of the year, and there are 132 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Event

 1559 – Spanish archbishop Bartolomé Carranza is arrested for heresy.

1642 – Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.

1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.

1780 – James Cook's ship, HMS Resolution, returns to England (Cook was killed in Hawaii during the voyage).

1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

1902 – The Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

1902 – Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to appear in an automobile publicly.

1949 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.

1953 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.

1963 – X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet).

1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.

2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

 

Birthdays

 1647 – Denis Papin, the French physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712)

1778 – James Kirke Paulding, American poet, playwright, and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1860)

1834 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1906)

1848 – Melville Elijah Stone, an American publisher, founded the Chicago Daily News (d. 1929)

1860 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, the Polish-German technician and inventor, created the Nipkow disk (d. 1940)

1874 – Max Scheler, German philosopher and author (d. 1928)

1896 – Laurence McKinley Gould, American geologist, educator, and polar explorer (d. 1995)

1917 – John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)

1920 – Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 2012)

1932 – Gerald P. Carr, American engineer, colonel, and astronaut (d. 2020)

1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general and engineer (d. 2012)

1958 – Vernon Reid, English-born American guitarist and songwriter.

1963 – Terry Catledge, American basketball player

1997 – Maxx Crosby, American football player.

 

 

Holiday Spotlight

National Burger Day

 The burger has an interesting history! It all started way back in ancient Rome, where a dish made of ground minced meat, pine nuts, peppers, and flavorings of wine and garum resembled the earliest form of a burger. Fast forward to the 13th century A.D., the Mongols found a way to tenderize and eat meat on the go by carrying beef under their saddles during their daily rides. Then, in 1747, Hannah Glasse's "The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy" included a prototype of the hamburger called Hamburg sausage. The modern hamburger we know today is believed to have originated from separate events in the late 19th century. In 1885, brothers Frank and Charles Menches ran out of pork sausages at the Erie County Fair in Hamburg, New York, and started using ground-up beef, creating the hamburger. At the same time, in Wisconsin, 15-year-old Charlie Nagreen flattened beef meatballs between slices of bread to create a sandwich that people could easily eat while walking.

 

Holidays And Observance.

Be an Angel Day

Eat a Peach Day 

National Bad Day

National Bao Day

National Hamburger Day  

National Pecan Torte Day

National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day

National Tooth Fairy Day  

Never Been Better Day

Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day

World Daffodil Day   

World Plant Milk Day       

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