Today's Holidays in August 22

✡️ Religious Observances

• Islamic: Urs of Shaykh Muhammad al-Masūm ق major

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2012 — Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths. ↗
• 2007 — The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. ↗
• 2006 — Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. ↗
• 2006 — Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal. ↗
• 2004 — Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1995 — Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter
• 1994 — Olli Määttä, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1993 — Rajinder Singh Sandhu, Punjabi Poet/Writer
• 1992 — Ema Burgić Bucko, Bosnian tennis player
• 1991 — Federico Macheda, Italian footballer