📜 This Day in History

August 22

• 1485At the Battle of Bosworth Field, Lancastrian forces under Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeated Yorkist forces under Richard III of England, decisively ending the Wars of the Roses.
• 1711Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River.
• 1864Under 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.
• 1962An assassination attempt orchestrated by the OAS takes place against Charles de Gaulle, although he is uninjured.
• 2003Roy Moore, Alabama's chief justice, was suspended after refusing to comply with a U.S. federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Supreme Court of Alabama building.
• 2015A former military aircraft crashed at an airshow at Shoreham Airport in southern England, killing eleven people.

Born on this day

• 1862Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (died 1918)
• 1904Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, paramount leader and 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 1997)
• 1920Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (died 2012)
• 1995Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter