August 23

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August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining.

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Contents

1 Events

1.1 1300-1899
1.2 1900-1999
1.3 2000-2099

2 Births

2.1 600-1899
2.2 1900-1999

3 Deaths

3.1 1-1899
3.2 1900-1999
3.3 2000-2099

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1300-1899

1328 - Battle of Kassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers
1566 - Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands
1614 - The University of Groningen is established
1617 - In London, the first one-way street is established
1784 - Eastern Tennessee declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; the step is rejected by Congress one year later
1798 - Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power
1821 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain
1833 - Slavery abolished in the British colonies
1839 - The UK captures Hong Kong
1864 - The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico
1866 - Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague
1889 - First wireless message from a ship to the shore received.

1900-1999

1904 - The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 - Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1924 - The distance between Earth and Mars is the smallest since the 10th century.
1927 - Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1939 - Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, Baltic states, Finland and Poland are divided between the two nations
1940 - The Germans start bombing London
1942 - Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad
1943 - Kharkov liberated
1944 - Marseilles liberated
1944 - King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies
1944 - United States Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashed into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people
1947 - The Maynard Midgets beat Lock Haven 16-7 to win the first-ever Little League World Series championship.
1948 - World Council of Churches is formed
1952 - The Arab League goes into effect
1958 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1960 - In Equatorial Guinea, the world's largest frog (3.3 kg) is caught
1962 - First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon
1973 - The Intelsat communication satellite is launched
1975 - Successful Communist coup in Laos
1976 - A major earthquake in China kills thousands of people
1979 - Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States
1985 - Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany
1987 - Heavy rains and floods in Bangladesh kill hundreds of victims
1989 - Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stood on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way)
1990 - Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages to try to prevent the Gulf War)
1990 - Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union
1990 - West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
1992 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida.

2000-2099

2000 - A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain killing 143
2000 - Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

Births

600-1899

686 - Charles Martel, victorious general in the Battle of Tours, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
1754 - King Louis XVI of France (d. 1792)
1769 - Georges Cuvier, biologist, statesman
1783 - William Tierney Clark, civil engineer (d. 1852)
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, US naval officer (Battle of Lake Erie)
1829 - Moritz Cantor, mathematician
1847 - Sarah Frances Whiting, physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1852 - Arnold Toynbee, economist, social reformer
1864 - Eleftherios Venizalos, prime minister of Greece (1910-1915, 1928-1932)
1869 - Edgar Lee Masters, author (d. 1950)
1875 - William Eccles, radio pioneer
1883 - US General Jonathan Wainwright, Medal of Honor recipient
1884 - Will Cuppy, humorist (d. 1949)

1900-1999

1900 - Ernst Krenek, composer (d. 1991)
1901 - John Sherman Cooper, Senator from Kentucky (d. 1991)
1903 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
1905 - Constant Lambert, composer (d. 1951)
1912 - Gene Kelly, dancer, actor (d. 1996)
1914 - Harold Truscott, composer (d. 1992)
1917 - Tex Williams, singer
1921 - Eadie Del Rubio (d. 1996), Elena Del Rubio (d. 2001), and Milly Del Rubio, the Del Rubio Triplets, singers, musicians, actresses
1922 - George Kell, Baseball Hall of Famer
1923 - Edgar F. Codd, founder of theory of relational databases
1924 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer
1927 - Houari Boumendienne, president of Algeria (1965-1978)
1927 - Dick Bruna, illustrator
1929 - Vera Miles, actress
1929 - Peter Thompson, golfer
1930 - Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France
1932 - Mark Russell, comedian, musician, political commentator
1933 - Pete Wilson, governor of California
1934 - Barbara Eden, actress
1934 - Sonny Jurgensen, professional football player
1936 - Henry Lee Lucas, serial killer(† 2001)
1943 - Nelson DeMille, novelist
1947 - Keith Moon, singer, drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
1949 - Shelley Long, actress
1949 - Rick Springfield, singer, actor
1951 - Queen Noor of Jordan
1951 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
1952 - Vicky Leandros, singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
1963 - Kenny Wallace, NASCAR race car driver
1970 - Jay Mohr, actor, comedian
1970 - River Phoenix, actor (d. 1993)
1972 - Dave Chappelle, actor, comedian
1975 - Eliza Carthy, singer, fiddle player
1978 - Kobe Bryant, NBA basketball player
1978 - Julian Casablancas, musician
1981 - Eric Radloff, singer, songwriter
1986 - Neil Cicierega, musician, inventor of Animutation

Deaths

1-1899

93 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman governor of Britain
634 - Abu Bakr, Muslim Caliph
1618 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1585)
1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, physicist
1813 - Alexander Wilson, ornithologist

1900-1999

1926 - Rudolph Valentino, actor
1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchists
1937 - Albert Roussel, composer
1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist
1962 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist
1962 - Hoot Gibson, actor
1965 - John Bata, shoe manufacturer
1966 - Francis X. Bushman, actor
1982 - Stanford Moore, biochemist

2000-2099

2001 - Peter Maas, novelist
2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, Baseball Hall of Fame member
2003 - Imperio Argentina, Spanish singer and actress
2003 - Bobby Bonds, Major League baseball player
2003 - Jack Dyer, Australian rules football legend
2003 - John Geoghan, defrocked pedophile priest

Holidays and observances

Romania: Liberation Day (1944)
Swaziland: Umhlanga Day
Roman Empire: Vulcanalia

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