August 22 historical events
392 — Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor
Eugenius (died 6 September 394) was a Western Roman emperor from 392 to 394, unrecognized by the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius I. While Christian himself, Eugenius capitalized on the discontent in the West caused by Theodosius' religious policies targeting pagans. He renovated the pagan Temple of Venus and Roma and restored the Altar of Victory after continued petitions from the Roman Senate.
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851 — Battle of Jengland
The Battle of Jengland (also called Jengland-Beslé, Beslé, or Grand Fougeray) took place on 22 August 851, between the West Frankish army of Charles the Bald and the Breton army of Erispoe, Duke of Brittany. The Bretons were victorious, leading to the signing of the Treaty of Angers in September 851 and the recognition of Erispoe as the legitimate ruler of the Bretons under Charles.
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917 — Battle of Mag Femen
The Battle of Mag Femen took place on 22 August 917 between the Vikings of the Uí Ímair, led by Ragnall, a grandson of Ímar, and the Irish of the Northern Uí Néill, led by Niall Glúndub, High King of Ireland. It was one of two battles involving the Uí Ímair that year, the other being the Battle of Confey, which occurred as a result of the Uí Ímair trying to retake the Kingdom of Dublin which they had lost in 902.
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1138 — Battle of the Standard
The Battle of the Standard, sometimes called the Battle of Northallerton, in which English forces repelled a Scottish army, took place on 22 August 1138 on Cowton Moor near Northallerton in Yorkshire. The Scottish forces were led by King David I of Scotland. The English were commanded by William of Aumale. King Stephen of England (fighting rebel barons in the south) had sent a small force (largely mercenaries), but the English army was mainly local militia and baronial retinues from Yorkshire and the north Midlands. Archbishop Thurstan of York had exerted himself greatly to raise the army, preaching that to withstand the Scots was to do God's work.
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1140 — Yue Fei’s forces defeat the Jin army at Yancheng
Southern Song troops led by Yue Fei repelled an attack by Jin forces north of Yancheng, in what is now Luohe. Fighting continued into the evening before the Jin troops withdrew.
August 22 follows the Julian equivalent of the eighth day of the seventh lunar month. The proleptic Gregorian date is August 29.
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1153 — Siege of Ascalon
The siege of Ascalon took place from 25 January to 22 August 1153, in the time period between the Second and Third Crusades, and resulted in the capture of the Fatimid Egyptian fortress by the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Ascalon was an important castle that was used by the Fatimids to launch raids into the Crusader kingdom's territory, and by 1153 it was the last coastal city in Palestine that was not controlled by the Crusaders.
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1281 — Battle of Kōan
The Battle of Kōan, also known as the Second Battle of Hakata Bay, was the second attempt by the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China to invade Japan after their failed attempt seven years earlier at the Battle of Bun'ei. In the summer of 1281, the Yuan invaded with two large armies. The Japanese defenders were aided by a major storm which sank a sizeable portion of the Yuan fleets.
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1371 — Battle of Baesweiler
The Battle of Baesweiler (22 August 1371) was a conflict between the duke of Luxembourg-Brabant and the Duke of Jülich.
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1464 — Siege of Jajce (1464)
The siege of Jajce took place between 10 July and 22 August 1464, during the Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, when an Ottoman army under Sultan Mehmed II made a new attempt to conquer Bosnia and take control of the strategic fortress of Jajce, south of Banja Luka, at the time under Hungarian control.
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1485 — Battle of Bosworth Field
The Battle of Bosworth Field (or Battle of Bosworth) was the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York that raged across England in the latter half of the 15th century. Fought on 22 August 1485, the battle was won by the Lancastrians. Their leader Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, by his victory became the first English monarch of the Tudor dynasty. His opponent, Richard III, the last king of the House of York, was killed in the battle.
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1531 — Battle of Obertyn
The Battle of Obertyn (August 22, 1531) was fought between Moldavian Voivode Petru Rareş and Polish forces under hetman Jan Tarnowski, in the town of Obertyn, south of the Dniester River, now in Ukraine. The battle ended with a Polish victory and the reconquest of Pokutia.
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1543 — Siege of Nice
The siege of Nice occurred in 1543 and was part of the Italian War of 1542–46 in which Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent collaborated as part of the Franco-Ottoman alliance against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and Henry VIII of England. At that time, Nice was under the control of Charles III, Duke of Savoy, an ally of Charles V. The siege was part of the 1543–1544 Mediterranean campaign of Hayreddin Barbarossa.
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1548 — Battle of Shiojiritoge
The 1548 Battle of Shiojiritoge was one of many battles fought by Takeda Shingen in his bid to conquer Japan's Shinano Province.
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1614 — Fettmilch uprising
The Fettmilch uprising (German: Fettmilch-Aufstand) of 1614 was an antisemitic revolt in the Free imperial city of Frankfurt am Main, led by baker Vincenz Fettmilch. It was initially a revolt by the guilds against the mismanagement of the patrician-dominated city council, that culminated in the pillaging of the Frankfurter Judengasse (Jewish quarter) and the expulsion of Frankfurt's entire Jewish population, the worst outbreak of antisemitism in Germany between the fourteenth century and the 1930s.
Fettmilch uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.
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1628 — Siege of Batavia
The siege of Batavia was a military campaign led by Sultan Agung of Mataram to capture the Dutch port-settlement of Batavia in western Java. The first attempt was launched in 1628, and the second in 1629; both were unsuccessful.
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1632 — Capture of Maastricht
The Siege of Maastricht in 1632 was a military operation carried out by the Dutch Republic against the Spanish-held city of Maastricht during the Eighty Years’ War. Led by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, the Dutch forces sought to capture the strategically located city to gain control over an important crossing of the Meuse River and to weaken Spanish influence in the southern Netherlands.
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1632 — Frederick Henry's Meuse campaign
The Meuse campaign was a major operation during the Dutch Revolt led by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange in which he took the cities of Venlo, Roermond, Sittard and Maastricht.
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1638 — Battle of Getaria
The Battle of Getaria or the Battle of Guetaria are the names given to a battle in the Franco-Spanish War (1635 - 1659), which took place on 22 August 1638 at Getaria, northern Spain, when a French fleet under de Sourdis attacked and destroyed a Spanish fleet under Lope de Hoces.
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1645 — Siege of Chania (1645)
The siege of Chania happened during the initial stages of Cretan War (1645–1669). The Ottomans besieged the Venetian-held city of Chania, and after 56 days of siege, the Ottomans captured the city.
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1649 — Siege of Zbarazh
The siege of Zbarazh (Ukrainian: Облога Збаража, Битва під Збаражем, Polish: Oblężenie Zbaraża, Bitwa pod Zbarażem; 10 July – 22 August 1649) was a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, and occurred in and around the site of the present-day city of Zbarazh in Ukraine. The Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate combined forces against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in a siege that lasted seven weeks.
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1696 — Battle of Andros (1696)
The battle of Andros took place on 22 August 1696 west of the Ottoman island of Andros between the fleets of the Republic of Venice and the Papal States under Bartolomeo Contarini on the one side, and the Ottoman Navy under Mezzo Morto Hüseyin Pasha as well as Barbary vassals on the other. The encounter was indecisive, and no vessels were lost on either side.
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1706 — Siege of Menin (1706)
The siege of Menin (1706) was a siege by the Allies against the French during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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1711 — Quebec expedition (1711)
The Quebec expedition (also known as the Walker expedition to Quebec) was a British attempt to attack French-held Quebec City in mid-1711 during Queen Anne's War, the North American theatre of the War of the Spanish Succession. It failed when seven troopships and one storeship were wrecked and 890 soldiers, sailors and women drowned in one of the worst naval disasters in British history.
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1777 — Battle of Setauket
The Battle of Setauket (August 22, 1777) was a failed attack during the American Revolutionary War on a fortified Loyalist outpost in Setauket, Long Island, New York, by a force of Continental Army troops from Connecticut under the command of Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons. In an attempt to repeat the success of the earlier Meigs Raid against Sag Harbor, Parsons' force crossed Long Island Sound to attack the Loyalist position. Alerted by spies to the planned assault, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hewlett strongly fortified the local Presbyterian church, surrounding it with a stockade and earthworks.
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1777 — Battle of Staten Island
The Battle of Staten Island was a raid by Continental Army troops under Major General John Sullivan against British forces on Staten Island on August 22, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. After British Lieutenant General William Howe sailed with most of his army from New York in July, the Americans recognized that the British position on Staten Island was vulnerable, and planned an attack. Sullivan's raid was well-executed, but it suffered from a shortage of boats to effect the crossing, and one of its detachments was misled by its guide to the front of the enemy position rather than its rear.
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1777 — Siege of Fort Stanwix
The siege of Fort Stanwix (also known as Fort Schuyler) began on August 2, 1777, and ended on August 22, 1777. Fort Stanwix, at the western end of the Mohawk River Valley, was a primary defense point for the Continental Army against the British and Indigenous forces aligned against them during the American Revolutionary War.
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1795 — Action of 22 August 1795
The action of 22 August 1795 was fought during the War of the First Coalition between a Royal Navy squadron of four frigates and a Batavian Navy squadron of two frigates and a cutter. Fought off the Norwegian coastal island of Eigerøya, then part of Denmark–Norway, the battle came about due to both squadrons' missions to protect their countries' trade routes to the Baltic Sea.
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1796 — Battle of Theiningen
The Battle of Theiningen took place in Germany on 22–23 August 1796 during the War of the First Coalition. A French division, led by Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, repulsed an attempted encirclement, and fought a successful rearguard action, despite being outnumbered three-to-one, against an Austrian army led by Archduke Charles of Austria, allowing the French Army of Sambre and Meuse to retreat toward the Rhine.
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1812 — Battle of Dahlenkirchen
The Battle of Dahlenkirchen took place on 22 August 1812, between French and allied troops, with a victory of the Russian army of about 6,000 against the French about 1,500 strong.
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1827 — José de La Mar takes office as president of Peru
On August 22, 1827, José de La Mar took office as constitutional president of Peru in Lima. The Constituent Congress had chosen him in June, and Vice President Manuel Salazar y Baquíjano had been acting in his absence.
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1839 — Siege of Akhoulgo
The siege of Akhulgo took place in June–August 1839 during the Caucasian War between the Russian Empire and the Caucasian Imamate led by Shamil. General Pavel Grabbe besieged Imam Shamil in the rock-fortress of Akhulgo. After 80 days the rock was taken and most of the defenders were killed, but Shamil managed to escape.
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1846 — Mexico restores the federal Constitution of 1824
Mexico reinstated its federal constitution, reversing the centralist system and beginning the period known as the Second Federal Republic.
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1849 — Passaleão incident: João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, the governor of Portuguese Macau, is assassinated by a group of Chinese locals, triggering a military confrontation between China and Portugal at the Battle of Passaleão three days later
João Maria Ferreira do Amaral (4 March 1803 – 22 August 1849) was a Portuguese military officer and politician. While he was governor of Macau, he was assassinated by several Chinese men, triggering the Battle of Passaleão between Portugal and China.
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1851 — The yacht America wins the race that gives the America’s Cup its name
The American schooner America won the Royal Yacht Squadron’s race around the Isle of Wight. The trophy later became known as the America’s Cup.
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1862 — Battle of Fort Ridgely
The Battle of Fort Ridgely was an early battle in the Dakota War of 1862. As the closest U.S. military post to the Lower Sioux Agency, the lightly fortified Fort Ridgely quickly became both a destination for refugees and a target of Dakota warbands after the attack at the Lower Sioux Agency.
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1863 — Battle of Guayacanes (1863)
The Battle of Guayacanes (Spanish: Batalla de Guayacanes de 1863) was a battle of the Dominican Restoration War that took place on August 22, 1863 and lasted several hours. A Spanish column advancing toward Santiago was engaged by Dominican forces near Guayacanes. Dominicans opened the battle with rifle fire; Spanish troops launched several assaults on Dominican defensive positions but were repelled, and the battle devolved into hand-to-hand combat with bayonets and machetes.
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1863 — Battle of Złoczew
The Battle of Złoczew, one of many clashes of the January Uprising, took place on 22 August 1863 near the town of Złoczew, which at that time belonged to Russian-controlled Congress Poland. A Polish insurgent unit under Edmund Taczanowski clashed with a detachment of the Imperial Russian Army and the battle resulted in Russian victory. The insurgents lost 5 men, and after the battle, Taczanowski ordered his party to withdraw towards Niechmirów.
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1864 — Twelve states sign the first Geneva Convention
On August 22, 1864, representatives of twelve states signed the first Geneva Convention in Geneva, Switzerland. The treaty required care for wounded soldiers regardless of their nationality and protection for the medical personnel and facilities treating them. Later conventions revised and replaced the 1864 text.
This records the original 1864 convention, rather than the revised First Geneva Convention adopted in 1949.
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1864 — Geneva Conventions
The Geneva Conventions are a series of four international treaties (1949) and their three additional protocols that form the core of international humanitarian law. They establish legal standards for humanitarian treatment of non-combatants in war and protect people who are not or are no longer actively taking part in hostilities.
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1866 — Action of 22 August 1866
The Action of 22 August 1866 occurred during the Chincha Islands War near Funchal, on the island of Madeira, and was the final action of the war battle between Spanish and Chilean forces. The Chilean steamer Tornado was captured by the Spanish frigate Gerona, on 22 August 1866 off the island of Madeira. Tornado had arrived in Madeira under the command of Juan MacPherson, an English commander in service of the Chilean Navy.
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1894 — Natal Indian Congress
The Natal Indian Congress was an organization that aimed to fight discrimination against Indians in South Africa. The Natal Indian Congress was started by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, later known as the Mahatma. A constitution was put in place on 22 August 1894. During its formative years, the NIC introduced many early petitions for changes to proposed discrimatory legislations. It later allied itself with the African National Congress.
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1902 — 1902 Turkestan earthquake
The 1902 Turkestan earthquake (also known as the Artush or Kashgar earthquake) devastated Xinjiang, China, near the Kyrgyzstan border. It occurred on August 22, 1902, at 03:00:22 (09:00:22 local time) with an epicenter in the Tien Shan mountains. The thrust earthquake measured 7.7 on the moment magnitude scale (Mw) and had a depth of 18 km (11 mi).
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1902 — The Cadillac Automobile Company is established
On August 22, 1902, the Cadillac Automobile Company was established in Detroit. It used the former Henry Ford Company factory and built cars with engines designed by Henry M. Leland.
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1910 — Korean Empire
The Korean Empire (Korean: 대한국; Hanja: 大韓國; lit. 'Great Korean State'), officially the Empire of Korea or Imperial Korea in English and commonly called Taehan Cheguk (Korean: 대한제국; Hanja: 大韓帝國; lit. 'Empire of Great Korea') in Korean, was a Korean monarchical state proclaimed in October 1897 by King Gojong of the Joseon dynasty. The empire lasted until the Japanese annexation of Korea in August 1910.
After the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910 was signed on 22 August 1910, the Korean Empire was annexed.
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1914 — Battle of Rossignol
The Battle of Rossignol (22 August 1914) one of the first battles of the First World War, was part of the Battle of the Frontiers on the Western Front between the German and French armies. To counter the German invasion of Belgium, the French commander-in-chief, General Joseph Joffre, ordered an attack upon the centre of the German front.
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1914 — Affair of Khra
The Affair of Khra [Chra] ("affair" a military engagement by a force less than a division) was fought by British and French troops against German Polizeitruppen(paramilitary police) in the village of Khra, near the Khra River on 22 August 1914, during the Togoland Campaign of the First World War.
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1917 — Action of 22 August 1917
The action of 22 August 1917, took place during the First World War, in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front as part of the Third Battle of Ypres. The engagement was fought by the Fifth Army (General Hubert Gough) of the British Expeditionary Force and the German 4th Army (Lieutenant-General Friedrich Sixt von Armin).
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1917 — Third Battle of Oituz
The Third Battle of Oituz was a confrontation between Romanian and, to a lesser extent, Russian forces on one side and German and Austro-Hungarian forces on the other, during the Romanian Campaign of World War I. The battle took place primarily in the Oituz valley on the border between Hungary and Romania, from 8 to 22 August 1917.
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1920 — Polish and Soviet forces clash at Białystok
On August 22, 1920, Poland’s 1st Legions Infantry Regiment fought units of the retreating Soviet Red Army in and around Białystok. The fighting took place during the Polish–Soviet War, after the Battle of Warsaw.
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1922 — 1922 Dhabyani coup d'état
In 1922 Sheikh Sultan Al Nahyan, with a coalition of his brothers Hazza and Saqr staged a palace coup in Abu Dhabi killing their brother Hamdan, the ruling emir at the time, and crowned Sultan in his place.
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1922 — Michael Collins is killed in an Irish Civil War ambush
On August 22, 1922, Michael Collins was killed when his military convoy came under fire at Béal na Bláth in County Cork. He was commander-in-chief of the Irish National Army.
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1933 — 1933 Nova Scotia general election
The 1933 Nova Scotia general election was held on 22 August 1933 to elect members of the 40th House of Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.
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1934 — Australia regains the Ashes at The Oval
Australia beat England by 562 runs in the final Test at The Oval to take the 1934 Ashes series. Bill Woodfull captained the Australian side.
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1935 — 1935 Alberta general election
The 1935 Alberta general election was held on August 22, 1935, to elect members of the 8th Alberta Legislature in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The newly founded Social Credit Party of Alberta won a sweeping victory, unseating the 14-year government of the United Farmers of Alberta. It was one of only five times that Alberta has changed governments.
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1936 — Córdoba offensive
The Córdoba offensive was a failed Republican offensive against the Nationalist held city of Cordoba. It took place from 19 to 22 August 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.
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1940 — Birth of Shi Guangnan
On 22 August 1940, Shi Guangnan, a composer, was born.
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1942 — Kozelsk offensive
The Kozelsk offensive (Russian: Козельская наступательная операция) was an offensive conducted by parts of the Red Army's Western Front against the German 2nd Panzer Army in southwestern Kaluga Oblast on the Eastern Front of World War II between 22 August and 9 September 1942. The attack of the 2nd Panzer Army in early August created a small salient in the Soviet line.
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1942 — Brazil recognizes a state of belligerency with Germany and Italy
Brazil notified Germany and Italy that it recognized a state of belligerency after attacks on Brazilian ships. On August 31, the government issued a separate decree declaring a state of war throughout Brazil.
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1943 — Mga offensive
The Mga offensive or Third Battle of Lake Ladoga (German: Dritte Ladoga-Schlacht) or fifth Sinyavino offensive was an unsuccessful offensive operation by Soviet troops between 22 July and 25 September 1943 to break the siege of Leningrad.
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1945 — Soviet assault on Maoka
The Soviet assault on Maoka (Maoka Landing, Russian: Десант в порт Маока) was carried out at the port of Maoka (now Kholmsk), Southern Sakhalin during August 19-22, 1945, by the forces of the Soviet Northern Pacific Flotilla of the Pacific Fleet during the South Sakhalin Offensive of the Soviet–Japanese War at the end of World War II.
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1952 — Neelam Sanjiva Reddy begins serving in the Rajya Sabha
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy began his first term in India’s upper house. He later served as president of India.
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1954 — 1954 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final
The 1954 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 23rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1954 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Dublin completely dominated the game: they led 6-2 to 0-1 at the break, the Derry side having only entered their opponent's half with the sliotar three times.
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1962 — Petit-Clamart attack
The Petit-Clamart attack, also referred to by its perpetrators as Operation Charlotte Corday after assassin Charlotte Corday, was an assassination attempt organized by Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Bastien-Thiry with the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) that aimed to kill Charles de Gaulle, president of France at the time. The attack was carried out on 22 August 1962.
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1963 — Joe Walker reaches the X-15 program's highest altitude
NASA pilot Joe Walker flew an X-15 rocket plane to about 354,200 feet, the highest altitude reached in the program. The aircraft was released from its carrier over a dry lake in Nevada.
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1965 — Battle of Candlestick
The "Battle of Candlestick", also called the "Battle of San Francisco" or simply the "Marichal–Roseboro brawl", was a bench-clearing brawl which took place on August 22, 1965, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California, United States. In what is considered to be one of the most violent on-field brawls in sports history, pitcher Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants hit catcher John Roseboro of the Los Angeles Dodgers on the head with a bat, opening a gash on Roseboro's head and starting a fourteen-minute brawl between the teams in the middle of a heated pennant race.
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1966 — Operation Colorado
Operation Colorado/Lien Ket 52 was a US Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) operation that took place in the Hiệp Đức District, lasting from 6–22 August 1966 planned by Major General Lewis J. Fields, Commanding General of 1st Marine Division.
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1968 — Pope Paul VI begins a visit to Bogota
Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota during the first papal visit to Latin America. He met the president of Colombia and took part in events connected with the International Eucharistic Congress.
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1975 — Aleria standoff
The Aleria standoff was a confrontation between members of the French Gendarmerie and Corsican nationalist militants who entrenched themselves in a wine cellar at Aleria, Corsica, on 21 and 22 August 1975. The armed activists belonged to the radical nationalist party Action Régionaliste Corse (ARC). The occupation resulted in a strong reaction of the French government and is regarded as the precursor of the Corsican conflict.
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1978 — Sandinista guerrillas seize Nicaragua’s National Palace
On August 22, 1978, Sandinista National Liberation Front guerrillas led by Edén Pastora seized the National Palace in Managua while Nicaragua’s legislature was in session. They took members of Congress, government officials and other people in the building hostage, demanding money, the release of prisoners and publicity for their cause.
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1978 — Commercial Television ceases broadcasting in Hong Kong
On 22 August 1978, Hong Kong’s Commercial Television ceased broadcasting.
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1979 — Operation Placid
Operation Placid was a Rhodesian military operation in Zambia with clandestine assistance from the South African Air Force (SAAF) during the Rhodesian Bush War. The Rhodesian Air Force planned raids against a ZIPRA camps in Zambia on the northern Rhodesian border.
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1981 — Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103
Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 was a scheduled flight from Taiwan Taipei Songshan Airport to Kaohsiung International Airport that crashed on 22 August 1981, killing all 110 people on board. The Boeing 737-200 aircraft disintegrated in midair and crashed in the township of Sanyi, Miaoli. It is also called the Sanyi Air Disaster. The crash is the third-deadliest aviation accident on the Taiwanese soil, behind China Airlines Flight 676 and China Airlines Flight 611.
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1981 — 1981 FA Charity Shield
The 1981 FA Charity Shield was the 59th FA Charity Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Football League and FA Cup competitions. The match was played on 22 August 1981 at Wembley Stadium and played between 1980–81 Football League champions Aston Villa and FA Cup winners Tottenham Hotspur. The match ended in a 2–2 draw and the sides shared the trophy for six months each.
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1981 — 1981 Ms. Olympia
The 1981 Ms. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition was held on August 22, 1981, at the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the 2nd Ms. Olympia competition held.
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1984 — 1984 Indian vice presidential election
The 1984 Indian vice presidential election was held on 22 August 1984 to elect the vice president of India. R. Venkataraman was elected for the post, after he defeated B. C. Kamble in the election.
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1985 — 1985 Manchester Airport disaster
The 1985 Manchester Airport disaster occurred when British Airtours Flight 28M (also known as Flight 328), an international passenger flight, was en route from Manchester Airport to Corfu International Airport. It caught fire on takeoff on 22 August 1985, resulting in 55 fatalities. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-200, named River Orrin, was flown by British Airtours, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Airways.
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1989 — Nolan Ryan records his 5,000th major-league strikeout
Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan struck out Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics in Arlington, Texas. Ryan became the first Major League Baseball pitcher to reach 5,000 career strikeouts.
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1990 — The Beijing Asian Games torch relay begins
A torch-lighting ceremony in Tiananmen Square launched the relay for the 1990 Asian Games. The Games opened in Beijing the following month.
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1991 — Operation Brđani '91
Operation Brđani '91 (Croatian: Operacija Brđani '91) was a military action under taken by the Croatian National Guard (Croatian: Zbor narodne garde, ZNG) and the 2nd Guards Brigade on August 22, 1991.
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1993 — Summer Spectacular (1993)
Summer Spectacular (1993) was the second Summer Spectacular professional wrestling event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event took place on August 22, 1993 at the Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan. Thirteen matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Atsushi Onita defeated Mr. Pogo in a no ropes exploding barbed wire time bomb cage deathmatch to win the new FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship, which replaced the WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship.
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1995 — 1995 Brown County, Wisconsin Executive special election
The 1995 Brown County, Wisconsin Executive special election took place on August 22, 1995, following a primary election on July 25, 1995. Several weeks after winning re-election on April 4, 1995, County Executive Tom Cuene resigned effective June 2. Guy Zima, the Chairman of the County Board, became acting County Executive until July 5, when former County Executive Don Holloway was appointed as interim Executive.
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1998 — 1990–1998 Indonesian military operations in Aceh
The 1990–1998 Indonesian military operations in Aceh, also known as Operation Red Net (Indonesian: Operasi Jaring Merah) or Military Operation Area (Indonesian: Daerah Operasi Militer/DOM), was launched in early 1990 until 22 August 1998, against the separatist movement of Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Aceh. During that period, the Indonesian National Armed Forces practiced large-scale and systematic human rights abuses against the Acehnese.
The 1990–1998 Indonesian military operations in Aceh, also known as Operation Red Net () or Military Operation Area (), was launched in early 1990 until 22 August 1998, against the separatist movement of Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Aceh.
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1999 — SummerSlam (1999)
SummerSlam (1999) was the twelfth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was presented by Chef Boyardee. It took place on August 22, 1999, at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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1999 — China Airlines Flight 642
China Airlines Flight 642 was a scheduled flight that crashed at Hong Kong (Chek Lap Kok) International Airport on 22 August 1999. It was operating from Bangkok (Bangkok International Airport, now renamed as Don Mueang International Airport) to Taipei with a stopover in Hong Kong. The plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (registration B-150), touched down hard during landing, flipped over and caught fire.
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2004 — Armed robbers steal The Scream and Madonna from Oslo’s Munch Museum
Two masked men entered the Munch Museum in Oslo and took its versions of Edvard Munch’s The Scream and Madonna. Both works were recovered in 2006.
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2006 — Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by Saint Petersburg–based airline Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise, flying from Anapa Airport to Pulkovo Airport in Saint Petersburg. The aircraft crashed in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border, on 22 August 2006. All 170 people on board were killed. The crash was the deadliest aviation accident in 2006.
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2006 — Grigori Perelman is named a Fields Medal winner and declines the award
At the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Grigori Perelman was named a Fields Medal winner for his work in geometry, including the proof of the Poincaré conjecture. He declined to accept the medal.
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2007 — The Texas Rangers score 30 runs against the Baltimore Orioles
The Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3 at Camden Yards in the first game of a doubleheader. The 30 runs set a record for one team in a game in baseball’s modern era.
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2008 — Occupation of Gori
During the Russo-Georgian War, the city of Gori in Georgia was militarily occupied by Russia for a period of nine days, beginning on 13 August 2008. Although it ultimately withdrew from Gori on 22 August, the Russian military has been occupying other parts of Georgia for almost two decades.
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2008 — Typhoon Nuri makes landfall in eastern Hong Kong
Typhoon Nuri came ashore near Sai Kung after the Hong Kong Observatory issued the No. 9 storm signal. It weakened to a severe tropical storm as it moved across the territory.
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2009 — XPW Ten Year Anniversary Spectacular
An Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) reunion show called the XPW Ten Year Anniversary Spectacular, nicknamed XPW X, took place on August 22, 2009, at the Arena Night Club in Los Angeles. The event took place on the same weekend as SummerSlam, which was also taking place in Los Angeles. The main event of the show was a XPW King of the Deathmatch Championship match in which Supreme beat "The Hardcore Homo" Angel.
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2010 — 2010 Nadeshiko League Cup final
2010 Nadeshiko League Cup final was the 6th final of the Nadeshiko League Cup competition. The final was played at Nishigaoka Soccer Stadium in Tokyo on August 22, 2010. Nippon TV Beleza won the championship.
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2011 — Death of Leung Hon Wai
On 22 August 2011, Leung Hon Wai, a Cantonese opera actor, died.
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2013 — August 2013 Sardasht clash
The August 2013 Sardasht clash was a military confrontation on August 22 between Iranian security forces belonging to the Basij, the paramilitary branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) militants. The event is a part of the Iran-PJAK conflict, lasting from 2004, and despite the cease-fire of September 2011, producing more violence.
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2013 — Rif Dimashq offensive (March–August 2013)
The Rif Dimashq offensive (March–August 2013) was a Syrian government forces and allies offensive in the Rif Dimashq Governorate that was launched in late March 2013, as part of the Syrian Civil War.
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2014 — Titan FC 29
Titan FC 29: Ricci vs. Sotiropoulos was a mixed martial arts event, held on August 22, 2014, at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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2014 — CMLL Universal Championship (2014)
The CMLL Universal Championship 2014 (Campeonato Universal in Spanish) was a professional wrestling tournament produced by the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion, which took place over three Super Viernes shows between August 15 and 29, 2014, in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The CMLL Universal Championship is an annual tournament of CMLL champions that was first held in 2009 and has been held annually ever since.
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2015 — NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn
NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn was a professional wrestling show in the NXT TakeOver series that took place on August 22, 2015. The NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn event was produced by WWE, showcasing its NXT developmental brand, and streamed live on the WWE Network. The event took place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York - the first night of what was billed as a WWE "triple-header" at the arena, with SummerSlam taking place the following evening, and Raw the night after that. This was the first NXT TakeOver held outside of Full Sail University; WWE promoted it as NXT being "on the biggest stage yet".
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2015 — The first Rising Phoenix World Championships take place in San Antonio
The first Rising Phoenix World Championships, a professional women’s bodybuilding competition, took place at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio, Texas, on 22 August 2015.
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2015 — Field of Honor (2015)
Field of Honor '15 was a professional wrestling event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on August 22, 2015 at the MCU Park in Brooklyn, New York. This event was made available on ROH Wrestling.com's Home Page in the Video on Demand Section.
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2015 — 2015 Rising Phoenix World Championships
The 2015 Rising Phoenix World Championships was an IFBB Wings of Strength female professional bodybuilding competition and held in conjunction with the IFBB Texas Pro, the NPC Tim Gardner Texas Extravaganza, and NPC National. It was held on August 20, 2015 to August 22, 2015, at the Grand Hyatt, in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
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2017 — 2017 Iraq FA Cup final
The 2017 Iraq FA Cup final was the 26th final of the Iraq FA Cup as a club competition. The match was contested between Al-Zawraa and Naft Al-Wasat, at Al-Sinaa Stadium in Baghdad. It was played on 22 August 2017 to be the final match of the competition. Al-Zawraa made their record 17th appearance in the Iraq FA Cup final while Naft Al-Wasat, based in Najaf, became the first ever team from outside Baghdad to reach the final.
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2020 — NXT TakeOver XXX
NXT TakeOver XXX was a 2020 professional wrestling livestreaming event produced by WWE, held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's NXT brand division. It was the 30th NXT TakeOver event and took place on August 22, 2020, at NXT's home venue at the time, Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.
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2020 — UFC on ESPN: Munhoz vs. Edgar
UFC on ESPN: Munhoz vs. Edgar (also known as UFC on ESPN 15 and UFC Vegas 7) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 22, 2020, at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.
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2020 — 2020 Northern Territory general election
The 2020 Northern Territory general election was held on 22 August 2020 to elect all 25 members of the Legislative Assembly in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament. Members were elected through full preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member electorates, after the optional preferential voting system introduced for the 2016 election was abolished by the Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 2019 in April 2019.
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2020 — 2020 Malaysian United Indigenous Party leadership election
A leadership election was held by the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) on 22 August 2020. It was won by incumbent president of BERSATU, Muhyiddin Yassin.
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2021 — 2021 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final
The 2021 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final was a hurling match played at Croke Park in Dublin on 22 August 2021 between Cork and Limerick, the culmination of the 2021 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. It was the 134th final of that sport's primary competition, the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Limerick won the game by 3–32 to 1–22 to claim their third All-Ireland title in four years.
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2021 — NXT TakeOver 36
NXT TakeOver 36 was a 2021 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's NXT brand division. It was the 36th and final NXT TakeOver event and took place on August 22, 2021, from the Capitol Wrestling Center, hosted at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
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2021 — 2021 Yokohama mayoral election
The 2021 Yokohama mayoral election was held on 22 August 2021 to elect the next mayor of Yokohama. The central issue in the election was the building of an "integrated resort" IR featuring a casino. Incumbent mayor Fumiko Hayashi lost reelection, placing third to the LDP supported Hachiro Okonogi and the eventual winner, CDP and JCP supported Takeharu Yamanaka.
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2021 — 20th New York Asian Film Festival
The 20th New York Asian Film Festival was held in New York from 6 August to 22 August 2021. The opening film of the festival was Escape from Mogadishu, a South Korean film by Ryoo Seung-wan. Seventy titles were screened both online, as well as in person.
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2022 — EBS International Documentary Festival
EBS International Documentary Festival also known as EIDF, is an annual film festival hosted by the Educational Broadcasting System of South Korea since 2004. It is "Asia’s prestigious documentary festival", with focus on highlighting documentary films on Asia or made in Asia. It is open to countries from around the world.
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2023 — 2023 Montgomery mayoral election
The 2023 Montgomery mayoral election took place on August 22, 2023, to elect the Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama. Incumbent Democratic Mayor Steven Reed won re-election to a second term with 56.9% of the vote. The election was officially nonpartisan.
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2024 — 2024 Waterford Valley provincial by-election
A by-election was held in the provincial riding of Waterford Valley in Newfoundland on August 22, 2024, to elect a new member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly following the resignation of Liberal MHA and cabinet minister Tom Osborne. The seat was won by Liberal candidate and former Olympic curler Jamie Korab.
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2025 — 31st Sarajevo Film Festival
The 31st Sarajevo Film Festival took place between 15 and 22 August 2025 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Black comedy film The Pavilion, by Bosnian filmmaker Dino Mustafić, opened the festival. A total of 227 films from 65 countries were shown in 22 festival programmes, out of which 50 films competed for the Heart of Sarajevo awards across four competition categories: feature, documentary, short, and student films.
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2025 — 2025 Liga MX Femenil All-Star Game
The 2025 Liga MX Femenil All-Star Game was a women's football exhibition match in Mexico. It featured an all-star team from Liga MX Femenil facing Liga F club FC Barcelona at Estadio Universitario in Monterrey, Nuevo León on 22 August 2025.
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2025 — Norwegian International Film Festival
The Norwegian International Film Festival (Norwegian: Den norske filmfestivalen or Filmfestivalen i Haugesund) is a film festival held annually in Haugesund, Norway. The festival goes back to 1973 and is therefore the oldest one in Norway. In 1985, the Amanda award was instituted. The Amanda is awarded every year at the festival in different movie categories.
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2025 — 53rd Norwegian International Film Festival
The 53rd Norwegian International Film Festival was held from 16 to 22 August 2025. The festival presented 75 feature-length films alongside a broad selection of events, including the New Nordic Films market, the Next Nordic Generation competition, and the Amanda Award ceremony scheduled for 16 August. It opened on 17 August with the world premiere of The Battle of Oslo by Daniel Fahre.
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