What happend on 22nd August

21.08
23.08
1953

The jail on Devil's Island is closed

1950

Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis

1944

World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.

1944

World War II: Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany

1942

World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)

1941

World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad

1926

Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa

1922

Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.

1914

World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.

1911

Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered