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Saturday
August 22, 2026 — day 234 of 365
- Day of the year
- 234 of 365
- Week of the year
- 34
- Days left in 2026
- 131
The sky on August 22, 2026
Moon phase on August 22, 2026: Waxing Gibbous
- Illumination
- 67.58%
- Moon age
- 9.07 days
- Sunrise
- 6:50 am
- Day length
- 13h 29m
- Sunset
- 8:19 pm
Times for Columbus, US (America/New_York), approximate
Date formats for August 22, 2026
- United States 8/22/2026 · August 22, 2026
- UK / Europe 22/8/2026 · 22 August 2026
- ISO 8601 2026-08-22
- Abbreviated Aug 22, 2026 · 22 Aug 2026
- Full format Saturday, August 22nd, 2026
This day in history — August 22
What happened on August 22
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1864
Under the leadership of Henry Dunant and the International Committee of the Red Cross, twelve European states signed the First Geneva Convention, establishing rules for the protection of victims of armed conflict.
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1791
The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
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2006
Grigori Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refused to accept the medal.
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1770
James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.
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1963
X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)).
Famous births on August 22
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1904
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, paramount leader and 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
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1862
Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer
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1995
Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter
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1920
Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter
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1978
James Corden, English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter
Famous deaths on August 22
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1485
Richard III of England
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1989
Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party
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1922
Michael Collins, Irish rebel, counter-intelligence and military tactician, and politician; 2nd Irish Minister of Finance
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1978
Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan politician, 1st President of Kenya
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1967
Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill