Today's GK Facts in the History Today's GK Facts in History for UPSC/IAS Exams The GK Facts section of Miliposts aims to help every competitive exam aspirant to revise the day comfortably.2007 The most runs were scored by any team in modern MLB history when the Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3.2005 Art theft: A version of two of Edvard Munch's paintings The Scream and the Madonna, stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has been suspended for refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.1995 During the 11-day siege on Ruby Ridge, ID, FBI HRT sniper Lone Horiuchi killed Vicki Weaver while shooting another target.1989 The first perfect ring was discovered around Neptune.1986 Keiko Kitagawa was a Japanese model and actress (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift).1983 Benigno Aquino, the only real rival of Ferdinand Marcos's reign as President of the Philippines, was shot dead at Manila airport.1975 US President Gerald Ford survived a second assassination attempt in 17 days on Sarah Jane Moore in San Francisco, Cal.1972 The International Olympic Committee voted 36–31 with three votes to ban Rhodesia from the Games due to the country's racist policies.1971 The FBI arrests members of the anti-war group, The Camden 28, while the group raids a recruiting office in Camden, NJ.Bolivian military coup: Colonel Hugo Banzer Suárez removes the leftist president, General Juan José Torres, and takes power.1970 Giada De Laurentiis, chef and television presenter.1969 Hurricane Camille hit the US Gulf Coast, killing 256 people and causing $1.421 billion in damage.1968 Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review.On the first papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota.1962 The world's first nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship, the NS Savannah, completes its maiden voyage from Yorktown, Virginia, to Savannah, Georgia.OEA gunmen unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle; This event inspired Frederick Forsythe's novel, The Day of the Jackal.1956 Current US President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were re-nominated by the Republican convention in San Francisco.1952 The Devil's Island penal colony is permanently closed.1950 I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff during the President's Administration. George W. Bush; Sentenced to 30 months for the felony, and President Bush replaced his sentence.1947 Donna Godchaux, singer of The Grateful Dead and Heart of Gold.1945 The conflict in Vietnam began when a group of Free French parachuted into southern Indochina in response to a successful coup by communist Ho Chi Minh guerrillas.Soviet troops landed at Port Arthur and Darien on China's Kwantung Peninsula.1943 Masatoshi Shima was a Japanese computer scientist who helped develop the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor.1942 Kathy Lennon, singer, member of The Lennon Sisters.Brazil declared war on the Axis powers. It is the only South American country that sends combat troops to Europe.1940 Anthony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher.1939 Valerie Harper, actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda).1938 Delmar Allan "Dale" Hawkins, pioneer rockabilly singer-songwriter ("Suzy Q").1935 Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (The Shipping News).1934 H. Norman Schwarzkopf, American general and commander of the Coalition forces during the Persian Gulf War.1922 Michael Collins, the Irish politician, is killed in an ambush.1920 Ray Bradbury was a science fiction author whose works include Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles.1917 John Lee Hooker, blues guitarist, and vocalist.1911 The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, has been stolen from the Louvre in Paris, where it has been hanging for more than 100 years. It was recovered in 1913.1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer.1904 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping from 1977 to 1987 held the nominal leadership until he died in 1997.1893 Dorothy Parker, poet, satirist, and founding member of the Algonquin Round Table.1891 Jacques Lipchitz, sculptor.1880 George Herrmann, cartoonist, creator of Crazy Cat.1849 The Portuguese governor of Macau, China, has been assassinated for his anti-Chinese policies.1777 With the arrival of General Benedict Arnold's army, British Colonel Barry St. Ledger left Fort Stanwix and returned to Canada.1717 Austrian forces drove Turkish forces out of Belgrade, ending Turkish rearmament in the Balkans.Source10 GK Today's Facts in History : August 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpDuhRymFJU
