August 22

Events
 * 1906 - the Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey, began to manufacture the Victrola record *player.
 * 1932 - The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting
 * 1956 - Five Satins hit US R&B chart with 'In the Still of the Night' in US
 * 1964 - Martha and the Vandellas release 'Dancing in the Street'
 * 1965 - Beatles' second film, 'Help', premieres in US
 * 1969 - Elvis Presley's show opens at the International Hotel, Las Vegas
 * 1978 - Joy Division release first single, 'An Ideal for Living'
 * 1979 - Led Zeppelin release 'In Through the Out Door' LP
 * 1981 - The first Monsters of Rock Festival takes place at Donnington Castle
 * 1987 - Dusty Springfield returns to UK chart at No. 10 with Pet Shop Boys and 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?'

Births


 * 1860 - Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor.Nipkow was born in Lauenburg (Lębork) in Pomerania. While at school in Neustadt (Wejherowo), West Prussia, Nipkow experimented in telephony and the transmission of moving pictures. While still a student, he invented the Nipkow disk, a mechanical, geometrically operating image scanning device. (d. 1940)


 * 1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
 * 1867 - Charles Francis Jenkins. Jenkins Laboratories constructed a radiovision transmitter, W3XK, in Washington D.C. The short-wave station began transmitting radiomovies across the Eastern U.S. on a regular basis by 2 Jul 1928.
 * 1917 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (d. 2001)
 * 1926 - Bob Flanigan (Four Freshmen)
 * 1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
 * 1938 - Dale Hawkins (Susie Q)
 * 1939 - Fred Milano (Belmonts)
 * 1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
 * 1952 - Peter Laughner, American musician (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
 * 1958 - Ian Mitchell (Bay City Rollers)
 * 1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
 * 1959 - Juan Croucier, American musician
 * 1961 - Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears)
 * 1961 - Debbi Peterson, American musician (The Bangles)
 * 1963 - Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter
 * 1963 - James DeBarge (DeBarge)
 * 1966 - GZA, American rapper
 * 1967 - Layne Staley (Alice In Chains)
 * 1967 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
 * 1968 - Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
 * 1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)