On August 22nd in history: In 1485 English king Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field. In 1642 English king Charles II denounced the English parliament as traitors and raised the royal standard at Nottingham to create Royalist army – this was the effective start of the English Civil War. In 1791 Haitian Revolution started in French slave colony of Saint-Domingue. In 1848 US annexed New Mexico. In 1851 the discovery of gold north-east of Melbourne, Australia, started a gold rush. In 1873 Alexandeer Bogdanov, Belarusian Bolshevik, doctor, philosopher and science fiction writer, was born. In 1904 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese CP leader, was born. In 1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer, was born. In 1910 Japan annexed Korea. In 1914 David Dellinger, American political activist and one of Chicago 7, was born. In 1917 John Lee Hooker, African American musician, was born. In 1920 Ray Bradbury, American author, was born. In 1922 Michael Collins, former head of the revolutionary IRA, now Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army, was killed in an ambush by anti-Treaty forces at Béal na mBláth in Co. Cork. In 1926 there were clashes between the Left and Nationalists at a protest meeting in Colmar, Alsace, France (Bloody Sunday). In 1928 Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer, was born. In 1950 125,000 railway workers started Canada’s first national railway strike over the 40-hour week and wages. In 1952 the French penal colony on Devils Island, French Guiana, was closed permanently. In 1953 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi returned to Iran after the overthrow of the nationalist Mossadegh government by the CIA and MI6. In 1961 Ida Siekmann was the first person killed attempting to cross the Berlin Wall. In 1964 Fannie Lou Hamer spoke at Democratic National Convention for inclusion of African Americans in voting process. In 1971 the FBI arrested the Camden 28 for conspiring to steal and destroy Vietnam War draft records from a New Jersey draft board office. In 1973 the Chilean Congress passed a resolution condemning Salvador Allendes government and demanding that he resign or be unseated by force. In 1978 the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) occupied the national palace in Managua, Nicaragua. In 1978 Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan liberation fighter and then president, died. In 1978 Ignazio Silone, left-wing Italian writer, died. In 1979 James T. Farrell, left-wing American journalist and author, died. In 1989 Huey P. Newton, African American political activist and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was murdered. In 2004 Ota Sik, Czechoslovak reform socialist economist during Prague Spring, died.
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