August 22nd
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- 565
St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness View Post →
- 1851
Gold fields are discovered in Australia
- 1864
The First Geneva Convention is adopted in Geneva for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, signed by 12 nations
- 1901
The Cadillac Motor Company is founded
- 1926
Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
- 1951
The Harlem Globetrotters attract a crowd of 75,052 people, the largest ever to watch a basketball game
- 1963
Joseph A. Walker, a United States Air Force Captain, becomes the first person to enter space twice
- 2004
The Scream (1910 painted version) and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway
- 2018
The discovery of a bone from a 90,000-year-old hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan, from the Anuy River in Siberia is published in Nature
- 2018
Forbes reports that George Clooney made more money in a single year ($239 million) than any actor ever, due to the sale of his alcohol company
- 2019
Russia launches Fedor, the first life-sized robot, into space to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
