General Information for August 22nd 2016 |
There are 2 public holidays today. |
Day 235 of 2016 |
131 days left in 2016 |
Week 34 of the year |
On this Day in History |
2004 - Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. |
1910 - Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II. |
1849 - The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice. |
1831 - Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising. |