Republican editor Horace Greeley of the highly influential New York Tribune fell for the ploy, and Lincoln refuted it directly in a shrewd letter of August 22, 1862.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

* The zodiac signs in August are Leo ( until August 22 ) and Virgo ( from August 23 onward ).

** August 22 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

hif: 22 August

pag: August 22

sco: 22 August

simple: August 22

yo: 22 August

* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

Agostino Carracci ( or Caracci ) ( 16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602 ) was an Italian painter and printmaker.

# Eleanor of Prussia ( 22 August 1583 – 31 March / 9 April 1607 ).

On August 22, 1982, Glenn Brummer stole home in the bottom of the 12th inning of a tie game, thus accomplishing a walk-off straight steal of home, one of the very few in major league history.

" In the mean time, Marlborough invested the elaborate fortress of Menin which, after a costly siege, capitulated on 22 August.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

Facing the Texas Rangers in a doubleheader at Camden Yards on August 22, the Orioles surrendered 30 runs in the first game-a modern-era record for a single game-in a 30 – 3 defeat.

Holly helped win over an all-black audience to rock and roll / rockabilly when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater for August 16 – 22, 1957.

Their son, Béla III, was born on August 22, 1910.

In its " Agreement ", on August 22, 1973, the Chamber of Deputies of Chile asserted that Chilean democracy had broken down and called for " redirecting government activity ", to restore constitutional rule.

Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.

A highlight of the season was a 22 – 0 victory over the New York Yankees on August 31, one of the worst defeats suffered by the Yankees in team history.

On August 22, Lou Piniella, who had already announced his retirement at the end of the season, announced that he would leave the Cubs prematurely to take care of his sick mother.

In 1917, a Committee on Statistics from what is now known as the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ), together with the National Commission on Mental Hygiene, developed a new guide for mental hospitals called the " Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane ", which included 22 diagnoses.

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, at the age of 22, Vertov began editing for Kino-Nedelya (, the Moscow Cinema Committee's weekly film series, and the first newsreel series in Russia ), which first came out in June 1918.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

The German policy was a success ; an armistice between Germany and the Bolsheviks came into force on 6 December and peace negotiations began on 22 December 1917 at Brest-Litovsk.

Trotsky led the Soviet delegation during the peace negotiations in Brest-Litovsk from 22 December 1917 to 10 February 1918.

The criteria were announced in a War Department circular dated February 22, 1932 and authorized award to soldiers, upon their request, who had been awarded the Meritorious Service Citation Certificate, Army Wound Ribbon, or were authorized to wear Wound Chevrons subsequent to April 5, 1917, the day before the United States entered World War I.

*: King Vajiravudh on the 22 of July 1917 decided to declare war on the Central Powers and joined the Entente Powers in their fight on the Western Front.

Peace negotiations began on December 22, 1917, a week after the conclusion of an armistice between Russia and the Central Powers, at Brest-Litovsk ( modern Brest, Belarus, near the Polish border ).

After a week of negotiations from December 22 through December 28, 1917, the delegation from the Central Powers withdrew from the conference to consider the Bolshevik peace proposals.

* November 22 – Anthony Burgess, English author ( b. 1917 )

* July 22 – Jessica Mitford, Anglo-American writer ( b. 1917 )

* July 22 – Jack Lescoulie, American actor ( b. 1917 )

* September 22 – József Asbóth, Hungarian tennis champion ( b. 1917 )

Melvin Kranzberg ( November 22, 1917 – December 6, 1995 ) was a professor of history at Case Western Reserve University from 1952 until 1971.

He first entered the war zone on 26 June 1917, and was promoted to temporary lieutenant on 10 June 1918, and to acting captain on 22 March 1918, when he took command of a tank section, he retained the rank when he became second-in-command of a tank company on 19 October 1918, and relinquished it on 7 January 1919.

Gene Rayburn ( December 22, 1917 – November 29, 1999 ) was an American radio and television personality.

As a source of reference, in 1917, United States Senate adopted a cloture rule ( Rule 22 ), at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, that allowed the Senate to end a debate with a two-thirds majority vote.

In 1928, Ackermann helped David Hilbert turn his 1917 – 22 lectures on introductory mathematical logic into a text, Principles of Mathematical Logic.

* Karl Helfferich, 22 May 1916-9 November 1917, also Secretary of the Interior ( until 23 October 1917 ).

He was born Lucien Ginsburg in Paris, France, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants, Joseph Ginsburg ( 28 December 1898, Kharkov ( Ukraine ) – 22 April 1971 ) and Olga Bessman ( 1894 – 16 March 1985 ), who fled to Paris after the 1917 Russian Revolution.

* Lübeck Hanseatic Cross: 22 September 1917.

* John Lee Hooker ( 1917 – 2001 ), influential blues singer, was born on August 22, 1917 in Coahoma County into a sharecropper and Baptist preacher family.

Portions of the township were taken to form Atlantic Township ( February 8, 1847, now Colts Neck Township ), Raritan Township ( February 25, 1848, now Hazlet Township ), Atlantic Highlands ( February 28, 1887 ), Highlands ( March 22, 1900 ) and Keansburg ( March 22, 1917 ).