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August 22

What happened on this day

First America's Cup175 years agoThe schooner America beats a British fleet around the Isle of Wight in 1851, beginning the oldest trophy still contested in international sport.
Perelman refuses the Fields Medal20 years agoThe Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture declines his discipline's highest honour in 2006, and a million-dollar prize after it.
Victims of Religious ViolenceUN Int'l Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief.
First Geneva Convention162 years agoTwelve states agree in 1864 to protect the wounded and those who treat them, the first of the treaties that became the modern laws of war.

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