On August 22nd these people were born ...
1862 Claude Debussy, composer
1891 Jacques Lipchitz, US sculptor and painter.
1893 Dorothy Parker, US humorist and writer.
1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer.
1915 John Lee Hooker, blues singer.
1920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.
1926 Honor Blackman, actress. (The Avengers, Bond's Miss Moneypenny)
1928 Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer.
1940 Valerie Harper, actress.
1957 Steve Davis, snooker player.
1958 Ian Mitchell, pop artist. (The Bay City Rollers)
1961 Debbie Peterson, pop artist, singer, drummer. (The Bangles)
1963 Tori Amos, singer, songwriter.
1970 Giada De Laurentiis, Italian American chef, TV personality, grandaughter of Dino.
1975 Sheree Murphy, English actress and TV presenter
1983 Laura Breckenridge, American actress.
... and these people died ...
1485 Richard III, butchered at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
1806 Jean Honore Fragonard, French painter.
1903 Robert Cecil, Third Marquess of Salibury, British statesman
1922 Michael Collins, architect of Ireland's freedom,shot by IRA
1940 Oliver Lodge, English physicist.
1942 Michael Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer.
1963 William Richard Morris, British car manufacturer, (Lord Nuffield)
2001 Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer, writer. (A For Andromeda)
2011 Jerry Leiber, songwriter (with Stoller). (78)
2011 Nick Ashford, Motown songwriter (Ain't No Mountain High Enough with wife Valerie Simpson). (70)
2012 Nina Bawden, author of books for children and adults. (87)
... and these things happened - On August 22nd
1485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets
1642 The English Civil War began, Charles I v Parliament.
1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
1788 Sirre Leone was started as a settlement for freed British slaves
1846 New Mexico was annexed by the USA.
1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
1864 International Red Cross was founded by the Geneva Convention.
1910 Korea was annexed by Japan in a treaty brokered in secret.
1962 Terrorists fired 150 shots at Charles De Gaulle, he was uninjured
1962 The first nuclear powered ship completed it's first voyage.
1963 Joe Walker in a NASA X-15, reaches 106 km (67 miles)
1985 A Boeing 737 burst into flames at Manchester airport, 55 dead.
2000 Martin Strel (45) swims entire Danube (1850 m in 8 wks).
2000 The Queen's head chef contracts food poisoning.
2001 Typhoon Pabuk hit Tokyo, hundreds of homes flooded.
2001 Zimbabwe released 21 white farmers on a total of £64k bail.
2002 GCSE results were sent to 600k UK students.
2002 Rising waters of Dongting Lake, China threatened to swamp for miles.
2003 Chemical Ali was captured in Iraq.
2003 Danube was at its lowest level for 100 yrs.
2003 Honda's Asimo, the world's most advanced humanoid robot, arrived
in Czech Republic and spoke to PM Koizumi. (ROBOT is Czech word)
2004 BBC showed the Olympics on 5 interactive channels for first time.
2004 Edvard Munch's The Scream and Madonna stolen in armed raid on Oslo museum
2005 The last jewish houses in the Gaza strip were bulldozed.
2005 Vail, Az. Empire High School was first to issue a laptop and no books to all students
2006 A crackdown on smugglers by Soviet customs caused severe shortage in Moscow of imported wines and spirits.
2007 Blackmail demands followed the theft of personal details from the monster.com jobsite.
2007 Chinas Terracotta Warrior Army began its' invasion - arriving at The British Museum - advance ticket sales exceeded 59k.
2008 A set of four stamps was jointly issued by the Royal Mail and China Post marking the handover of the Olympic Flag.
2008 Industrial & Commercial Bank of China set a world record with a rise in profits to £5 billion for a half year.
2008 King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand takes top spot in the super-rich royalty list, according to Forbes.
2009 Oxfam named Dan Brown as the "most donated" author of books given to its chain of charity shops.
2009 Referendum into controversial anti-smacking laws reveals over 80% of New Zealanders believe in reasonable force to discipline children.
2009 Rich losers Descent International, which offered ski chalets costing £58,000 a week, collapsed with debts totalling £1.5 million.
2010 Half a billion eggs in the US were recalled in an investigation into a salmonella outbreak, which included two farms in the state of Iowa.
2010 The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) estimated around 30,000 car accidents were staged last year in frauds costing insurers about £350m.
2011 More than 60,000 people attended the two-day Hindu Janmashtami Festival near Watford to celebrate the birth of Krishna.
2011 Rebels entered the Tripoli compound of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and seized control of much of the city.
2012 RIPA Laws intended for counter-terrorism were used by 345 local councils authorising their use 9,607 times since 2009; mostly for snooping on minor offences like nuisance dog owners.
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Playing the violin must be like making love--all or nothing.
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