What happend on 22nd August

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2004

The Scream, the painting by Edvard Munch, is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

2001

the Trojan room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.

1992

FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

1989

The first ring of Neptune is discovered

1989

Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first major league baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.

1988

The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued

1972

Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies

1968

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America

1962

An attempt to assassinate French president Charles De Gaulle fails

1962

The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage