August 23 2006 |
And previous decades events |
Read about how to open files in Open File Database. |
| August 23rd, 2006 (August 23 2006) | Event | Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity. | |
| August 23rd, 2006 (August 23 2006) | Death | Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (born in 1928) | |
| August 23rd, 1996 (August 23 1996) | Event | Osama bin Laden issues message entitled A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places. | Osama bin Laden Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1986 (August 23 1986) | Birth | Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician | |
| August 23rd, 1976 (August 23 1976) | Birth | Scott Caan, American actor | |
| August 23rd, 1966 (August 23 1966) | Event | Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. | |
| August 23rd, 1966 (August 23 1966) | Birth | Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player | |
| August 23rd, 1966 (August 23 1966) | Death | Francis X. Bushman, American actor (born in 1883) | |
| August 23rd, 1956 (August 23 1956) | Birth | Andreas Floer, German mathematician (died in 1991) | |
| August 23rd, 1956 (August 23 1956) | Birth | Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician | |
| August 23rd, 1956 (August 23 1956) | Birth | Skipp Sudduth, American actor | |
| August 23rd, 1946 (August 23 1946) | Event | Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein. | |
| August 23rd, 1946 (August 23 1946) | Birth | Keith Moon, English singer and drummer (The Who) (died in 1978) | |
| August 23rd, 1936 (August 23 1936) | Birth | Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (died in 2001) | |
| August 23rd, 1926 (August 23 1926) | Birth | Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist, (died in 2006) | |
| August 23rd, 1926 (August 23 1926) | Death | Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (born in 1895) | |
| August 23rd, 1896 (August 23 1896) | Event | First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila. | |
| August 23rd, 1866 (August 23 1866) | Event | Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague. | |
| August 23rd, 1846 (August 23 1846) | Birth | Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (died in 1923) | |
| August 23rd, 1836 (August 23 1836) | Birth | Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (died in 1902) | |
| August 23rd, 1806 (August 23 1806) | Death | Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (born in 1736) | |
| August 23rd, 1706 (August 23 1706) | Death | Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (born in 1654) | |
| August 23rd, 1486 (August 23 1486) | Birth | Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (died in 1566) | |
| August 23rd, 1176 (August 23 1176) | Death | Emperor Rokujo of Japan (born in 1164) | |
| August 23rd, 1106 (August 23 1106) | Death | Magnus, Duke of Saxony | |
| August 23rd, 0686 (August 23 0686) | Birth | Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (died in 741) | Charlemagne Quotes |
