1906<\/strong> – The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – Japan formally annexed Korea.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – It was announced that Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” had been stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. The painting reappeared two years later in Italy.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) began its first TV broadcast in England.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared on the cover of “LIFE” magazine.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during World War II.<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to be accepted into a national competition.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – 75,052 people watched the Harlem Globetrotters perform. It was the largest crowd to see a basketball game.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – Stephen Rockefeller married Anne Marie Rasmussen. Anne had once been a maid for the powerful and wealthy Rockefeller family.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – Due to its racial policies, Rhodesia was asked to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Henry Kissinger was named Secretary of State by U.S. President Nixon. Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – The last Volkswagen Rabbit rolled off the assembly line in New Stanton, PA.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million to settle a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Nolan Ryan became the first major league pitcher to strike out 5000 batters. (MLB)<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed an order for calling reservists to aid in the build-up of troops in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The U.S. State Department announced that the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait would not be closed under President Saddam Hussein’s demand.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Angry smokers blocked a street in Moscow to protest the summer-long cigarette shortage.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – It was announced by Yugoslavia that a truce ordered on August 7th with Croatia had collapsed.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned to Moscow after the collapse of the hard-liners’ coup. On the same day, he purged the men that had tried to oust him.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – In Rostock, Germany, neo-Nazi violence broke out against foreigners.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – U.S. President Clinton signed legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – “The Howard Stern Radio Show” premiered on CBS to about 70% of the U.S.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – In Oslo, Norway, a version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” and his work “Madonna” were stolen from the Munch Museum. This version of “The Scream,” one of four different versions, was a tempera painting on board.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong> \u2013 Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong> \u2013 Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincar\u00e9 conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong> \u2013 The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30\u20133, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong> \u2013 Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya’s Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.<\/p>\n History of 22 August 1906 – The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200. 1910 – Japan formally annexed Korea. 1911 – It was announced that Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” had been stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. 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