1. On August 22, 1862, Union General William Rosecrans defeated Confederate General Braxton Bragg at the Battle of Chattanooga. This victory paved the way for the eventual Union victory at the Battle of Chickamauga a month later.

2. On August 22, 1910, the Tennessee Children's Home Society was founded in Knoxville. The organization became infamous in the 1950s when it was revealed that its director, Georgia Tann, had been kidnapping and selling children for years.

3. On August 22, 1923, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established. The park, which spans over 500,000 acres in both Tennessee and North Carolina, is the most visited national park in the United States.

4. On August 22, 1957, the state of Tennessee passed the first state-level evangelical conversion therapy ban in the United States. The law prohibited licensed therapists from attempting to change a patient's sexual orientation.

5. On August 22, 2001, Nashville's First Baptist Church was targeted in a bombing that injured seven people. The bombing was later connected to a series of attacks carried out by convicted bomber Eric Rudolph.