Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 22

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 * 1485 – Lancastrian forces under Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeated Yorkist forces under Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field, decisively ending the Wars of the Roses.
 * 1711 – Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River.
 * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold used a ruse to convince the British that a much larger force was arriving, causing them to abandon the siege of Fort Stanwix (reconstructed fort pictured).
 * 1851 – The yacht America won the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns race, later renamed the America's Cup, near the Isle of Wight, England.
 * 1914 – First World War: German forces captured Rossignol (damaged buildings pictured) in Belgium, taking more than 3,800 French prisoners.
 * 1961 – Ida Siekmann jumped from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to West Berlin, becoming the first person to die at the Berlin Wall.
 * 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.
 * 1985 – A fire broke out on British Airtours Flight 28M, causing 55 deaths mostly due to smoke inhalation and bringing about changes to make aircraft evacuation more effective.
 * 2012 – A series of ethnic clashes between the Orma and Pokomo tribes of Kenya's Tana River District resulted in the deaths of at least 52 people.
 * 2015 – A former military aircraft crashed at an airshow at Shoreham Airport in southern England, killing eleven people.


 * Born/died this day: |John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland |d|1553| Thomas Tredgold |b|1788| James Newland |b|1881| Bill Woodfull |b|1897| Leni Riefenstahl |b|1902| Francis Birch |b|1903| Ralph Merrifield |b|1913| Denton Cooley |b|1920| Wolfdietrich Schnurre |b|1920| Madame Nhu |b|1924| Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. |b|1934| Steve Davis |b|1957