A bit of August 22nd history…
565 - St Columbe reports seeing monster in Loch Ness
1485 - Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor’s forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses; Richard is killed - last English monarch to die in battle
1770 - Australia claimed under British Crown when Captain James Cook lands there
1775 - King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
1812 - Swiss traveler Johann Burckhardt id 1st European to rediscover the Nabataean City of Petra (pictured)
1864 - 1st Geneva Convention - signed by 12 nations
2004 - “The Scream” (1919 painted version) and “Madonna”, 2 paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Norway
2018 - Discovery of a bone of a 90,000 hybrid human: half Neanderthal, half Denisovan from Anuy River, Siberia; published in “Nature”
A bit of August 22nd history… 565 - St Columbe reports...