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What Happened on August 23rd This Day in History

Year	Name
2013	A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.
2012	A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
2011	A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington, D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at 200 million–300 million USD.
2011	Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
2010	The Manila hostage crisis occurred near the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, Philippines killing 9 people including the perpetrator while injuring 9 others.
2007	The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2006	Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight years of captivity.
2000	Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
1994	Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
1991	The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
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 and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
1989	Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands.
1985	Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1975	The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia, lasting eight years, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 Paul Kelly song and an annual celebration.
1975	The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan
1973	A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1970	Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1966	Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1958	Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1954	The first flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft takes place.
1948	The World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.
1946	Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
1945	World War II: Soviet–Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War".
1944	World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allied forces.
1944	World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is later arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944	Freckleton air disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
1943	World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Red Army for the second time after the Battle of Kursk.
1942	World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1939	World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret protocol to the pact, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania are divided into German and Soviet "spheres of influence".
1929	Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine occur, continuing until the next day, resulting in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1927	Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1923	Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter perform the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1921	British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary; of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
1914	World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
1914	World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
1904	The automobile tire chain is patented.
1898	The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1873	The Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1866	The Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1864	American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
1839	The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
1831	Nat Turner's rebellion of enslaved Virginians is suppressed.
1813	At the Battle of Großbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1799	Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
1784	Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
1782	American Revolutionary War: British forces under Edward Despard complete the reconquest of the Black River settlements on the Mosquito Coast from the Spanish.
1775	American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1703	Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
1655	Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1628	George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
1600	Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.
1595	Long Turkish War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and achieves a tactical victory.
1572	French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
1541	French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1521	Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1514	The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
1382	Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
1328	Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1305	Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield, London.
1268	The Battle of Tagliacozzo marks the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.
1244	Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to the Khwarazmiyya.
476	Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
79	Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
30	After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, the eldest son of Mark Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
20	Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.

Famous People Born on August 23

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Year	Name
1929	Vera Miles, American actress
1962	Shaun Ryder, English singer-songwriter and actor
1482	Jo Gwang-jo, Korean philosopher (d. 1520)
1950	Luigi Delneri, Italian footballer and manager
1938	Roger Greenaway, English singer-songwriter and producer
1498	Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal (d. 1500)
1990	Mike Yastrzemski, American baseball player
1925	Robert Mulligan, American director and producer (d. 2008)
1982	Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
1974	Ray Park, Scottish actor and stuntman

Famous People Deaths On August 23

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Date	Name
2003	Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
1853	Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (b. 1806)
2006	Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1928)
634	Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (b. 573)
1987	Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (b. 1952)
1348	John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury
1967	Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
1937	Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
2002	Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
1960	Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)