August 22 is:
Be an Angel Day
National Tooth Fairy Day – and/or February 28
National Pecan Torte Day
National “Eat a Peach” Day
Georgia is ‘The Peach State’. “The World’s Largest Peach Cobbler” is made in Georgia every year. This dessert measures 11 feet by five feet.
Saint Columba was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in present-day Scotland. On August 22, 564, Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
1848 – The United States annexed New Mexico . Following the Mexican-American War, from 1846–1848 and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, Mexico ceded its mostly unsettled northern holdings, today known as the American Southwest and California, to the United States of America.
1864 – Twelve nations signed the First Geneva Convention. The First Geneva Convention, for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, is one of four treaties of the Geneva Conventions. It defines “the basis on which rest the rules of international law for the protection of the victims of armed conflicts.”
Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile in 1902.
From Today in Science
In 1906, the Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey, began to manufacture the Victrola record player. The hand cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200. Unlike previous phonographs, which were toy-like turntables with a large speaker horn to amplify the sound, this was housed in an elegant wood cabinet in several contemporary (for the time) furniture styles. The speaker horn and turntable mechanism were totally concealed, and there were convenient storage compartments for records thus transforming the phonograph into a popular household item, and setting the pattern of wood cabinetry enclosures later imitated by radios and television sets well into the 1950s.
Nolan Ryan struck out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts on August 22, 1989.
August 22, 2007 – The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, (in the first game of a double-header), the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.