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| August 22nd, 2007 | Event | The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history. |
| August 22nd, 2007 | Event | The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day |
| August 22nd, 2004 | Event | A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. |
| August 22nd, 2003 | Event | Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. |
| August 22nd, 1992 | Event | FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. |
| August 22nd, 1989 | Event | The first ring of Neptune is discovered. |
| August 22nd, 1989 | Event | Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. |
| August 22nd, 1978 | Event | The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua. |
| August 22nd, 1972 | Event | Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies. |
| August 22nd, 1971 | Event | J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. |
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