August 22nd

The last Jewish settlers left the Gaza Strip, ending decades of Israel's turbulent occupation.

A version of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream was stolen in Norway. Another version had been stolen in 1994.

Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse.

On the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho, an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver.

Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif.

Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.

President Richard Nixon was nominated for a second term of office by the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach.

First Person to Enter Space Twice. The record was set by Joseph A. Walker, a United States Air Force Captain, and a fighter pilot while flying the X-15, an experimental hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft. The X-15 was a joint venture between the US Air Force and the NASA. Not only did Walker became the first person to enter space twice, he also was the first person to take a spaceflight to an altitude of 67 miles (108 kilometers) in the 12-minute long flight.

France’s President Charles De Gaulle Survives an Assasination Attempt. The Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS), a French far-right organization tried to machine gun Charles De Gaulle while he was riding to the airport with his wife. The assassination attempt was led by Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, an officer in the French Air Force. Bastien-Thiry and the OAS were unhappy about De Gaulle’s role in allowing Algeria’s independence. It is thought that the car De Gaulle was riding in, a Citroen DS 19, was partially responsible for saving his and his wife’s life. After being caught, Bastien-Thiry was the last person in France to be executed by a firing squad.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon were nominated for second terms by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.

Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup.

Irish Politician Michael Collins is Assassinated. A member and leader of Sinn Fein, a political party that advocated complete Irish independence from Britain, Collins was shot dead in an ambush. This was only a few months after he had been appointed as the Finance Minister of the Irish Free State.

Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Ill.

Korea was annexed by Japan after five years as a protectorate.

Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping was born in Sichuan province.

President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. chief executive to ride in an automobile, in Hartford, Conn.

Author, poet, critic and wit Dorothy Parker was born in West Bend, N.J.

First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field".

The U.S. yacht America outraced the British Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.

The United States annexed New Mexico.

James Cook Lands on Possession Island. British explorer James Cook reached the island, which is off the northern coast of Queensland Australia, 2 years after he had set sail on the HMS Endeavour from Plymouth. James Cook named the area New South Wales and claimed it for the British Crown.

King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in open rebellion.

The English Civil War began between supporters of King Charles I (Royalists or Cavaliers) and those of Oliver Cromwell (Roundheads).

Madras (now Chennai), India, founded by the British East India Company on sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses.