August 23rd Events |
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| 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, 2005 (August 23 2005) | Event | TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41. | |
| August 23rd, 2000 (August 23 2000) | Event | A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143. | |
| August 23rd, 2000 (August 23 2000) | Event | Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne. | |
| 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, 1990 (August 23 1990) | Event | Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War. | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1990 (August 23 1990) | Event | Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. | |
| August 23rd, 1990 (August 23 1990) | Event | West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3. | |
| August 23rd, 1989 (August 23 1989) | Event | Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way). | |
| August 23rd, 1989 (August 23 1989) | Event | All of Australia s 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute. | |
| August 23rd, 1985 (August 23 1985) | Event | Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany. | |
| August 23rd, 1982 (August 23 1982) | Event | Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war. | |
| August 23rd, 1979 (August 23 1979) | Event | Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. | |
| August 23rd, 1979 (August 23 1979) | Event | Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States. | |
| August 23rd, 1977 (August 23 1977) | Event | The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight. | |
| August 23rd, 1975 (August 23 1975) | Event | Successful Communist coup in Laos. | |
| August 23rd, 1973 (August 23 1973) | Event | The Intelsat communication satellite is launched. | |
| August 23rd, 1966 (August 23 1966) | Event | Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. | |
| August 23rd, 1962 (August 23 1962) | Event | First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite. | |
| August 23rd, 1958 (August 23 1958) | Event | Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People s Liberation Army s bombardment of Quemoy. | |
| August 23rd, 1954 (August 23 1954) | Event | First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. | |
| August 23rd, 1952 (August 23 1952) | Event | The Arab League is formed. | |
| August 23rd, 1948 (August 23 1948) | Event | World Council of Churches is formed. | |
| 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, 1944 (August 23 1944) | Event | World War II: Marseille liberated. | |
| August 23rd, 1944 (August 23 1944) | Event | World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrestedied in Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies. | |
| August 23rd, 1944 (August 23 1944) | Event | Freckleton Air DisasterA United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people. | |
| August 23rd, 1943 (August 23 1943) | Event | World War II: Kharkov liberated. | |
| August 23rd, 1942 (August 23 1942) | Event | World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad. | |
| August 23rd, 1942 (August 23 1942) | Event | World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky. | |
| August 23rd, 1940 (August 23 1940) | Event | World War II: The Germans start bombing London. | |
| August 23rd, 1939 (August 23 1939) | Event | World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, Baltic states, Finland, Ukraine and Poland are divided between the two nations. | |
| August 23rd, 1929 (August 23 1929) | Event | Hebron Massacre: Arab attack of the Jewish community in the British Mandate of Palestine resulted in 133 Jews killed, 67 in Hebron. | |
| August 23rd, 1923 (August 23 1923) | Event | Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours. | |
| August 23rd, 1914 (August 23 1914) | Event | World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China. | |
| August 23rd, 1914 (August 23 1914) | Event | World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal. | |
| August 23rd, 1904 (August 23 1904) | Event | The automobile tire chain is patented. | |
| 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, 1889 (August 23 1889) | Event | First wireless message from a ship to the shore received. | |
| August 23rd, 1866 (August 23 1866) | Event | Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague. | |
| August 23rd, 1864 (August 23 1864) | Event | The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico. | |
| August 23rd, 1839 (August 23 1839) | Event | The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares to war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War. | |
| August 23rd, 1813 (August 23 1813) | Event | At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bulow repulse the French army. | |
| August 23rd, 1799 (August 23 1799) | Event | Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power. | |
| August 23rd, 1793 (August 23 1793) | Event | French Revolution: a levee en masse was decreed by the National Convention. | |
| August 23rd, 1784 (August 23 1784) | Event | Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years. | |
| August 23rd, 1775 (August 23 1775) | Event | King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion. | |
| August 23rd, 1708 (August 23 1708) | Event | Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur. | |
| August 23rd, 1595 (August 23 1595) | Event | Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni. | |
| August 23rd, 1555 (August 23 1555) | Event | Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands. | |
| August 23rd, 1541 (August 23 1541) | Event | French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada. | |
| August 23rd, 1328 (August 23 1328) | Event | Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers. | |
| August 23rd, 1305 (August 23 1305) | Event | William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England. | |
