From Wikipedia:
Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers.
Happy 368th birthday to the city of my people, though the circumstances of your origin are quite dubious.
Also, on August 22nd of 1973, Richard Nixon named Henry Kissinger the Secretary of State.
I suggest we stop looking at 666 as the number of the beast and instead offer some credence to 822, or 228 depending on where in the world you live.