“The Scream,” by Edvard Munch

Today in History

• Richard III becomes the last Plantagenet king at the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485)
• The English Civil War begins (1642)
• In the first air raid in history, Austria launches balloons against Venice (1849)
• The America wins the first Americas Cup (1851)
• Cadillac is founded (1902)
• The Siege of Leningrad begins (1941)
• Devil’s Island penal colony is closed (1953)
• Nolan Ryan becomes the first baseball pitcher to get 5,000 strikeouts (2003)
• Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended from office for refusing a federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments from the building (2003)
• The Scream and Madonna by Edvard Munch are stolen from a Norwegian museum (2004)

Birthdays

• Henry Maudslay, engineer (1771)
• Samuel Pierpont Langley, aviation pioneer and Smithsonian secretary (1834)
• Ned Hanlon, baseball player (1857)
• Claude Debussy, composer (1862)
• George Harriman, created Krazy Kat (1880)
• Dorothy Parker, poet and satirist (1893)
• Alexander Calder, artist and sculptor (1898)
• Leni Riefenstahl, filmmaker and propagandist (1902)
• John Lee Hooker, singer-songwriter (1917)
• Ray Bradbury, fantasy author (1920)
• Honor Blackman, actress (1925)
• Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., US general (1934)
• Annie Proulx, author (1935)
• Dale Hawkins, singer-songwriter (1936)
• Valerie Harper, actress (1939)
• Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player (1939)
• Cindy Williams, actress (1947)
• Tori Amos, singer-songwriter (1963)
• Kristin Wiig, comedian and actress (1973)
• James Corden, television host and actor (1978)

Death

• Stilicho, Roman general (408)
• Richard III of England, monarch (1485)
• Jan Neruda, author and poet (1891)
• Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (1922)
• Sebastian Cabot, actor (1977)
• Jomo Kenyatta, president of Kenya (1978)
• James T. Farrell, novelist (1979)
• James Smith McDonnell, founded McDonnell Aircraft (1980)
• Huey P. Newton, founded the Black Panther Party (1989)
• Colleen Dewhurst, actress (1991)

Holidays and Celebrations

• Flag Day (Russia)
• Madras Day (India)
• National Bao Day (US)

August 22 is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years). There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year.