Notable Historical Events on August 23rd
August 23rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
79 |
Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. |
406 |
Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians |
476 |
Odoacer proclaimed King of of Italy, 1st barbarian King of Italy |
1046 |
King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese |
1305 |
William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England. |
1328 |
Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers |
1328 |
King Philip VI of France, crowned |
1441 |
Holland & Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty |
1514 |
Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder. |
1541 |
French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada. |
1542 |
Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code |
1553 |
Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor |
1555 |
Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands. |
1566 |
Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam |
1566 |
Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights |
1582 |
French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders |
1595 |
Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni. |
1614 |
University of Groningen opens |
1617 |
1st one-way streets open (London) |
1708 |
Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur. |
1711 |
Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence |
1784 |
Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it |
1796 |
African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated |
1799 |
Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power. |
1813 |
Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French |
1821 |
Mexico declares independence |
1838 |
Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class |
1839 |
British capture Hong Kong from China |
1850 |
1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass |
1862 |
Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments) |
1864 |
Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama |
1866 |
Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war |
1869 |
1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston |
1872 |
1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea |
1873 |
Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens |
1879 |
Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo |
1883 |
Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks & & passballs count as errors prior to 1888) |
1889 |
1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF) |
1896 |
First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila. |
1898 |
18th US Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (3-6 6-2 6-2 6-1) |
1900 |
National Negro Business League organizes (Boston) |
1903 |
6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state |
1904 |
Automobile tire chain patented |
1906 |
Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Wash Senators |
1906 |
Cuba's 1st president Tomés Estrada Palma asks for US intervention |
1907 |
Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game |
1910 |
Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh |
1911 |
British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany |
1914 |
-24] German troops plunder Belgium |
1914 |
Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten |
1914 |
Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium |
1914 |
Japan declares war on Germany in World War I |
1915 |
Tsar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army |
1916 |
Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years |
1917 |
Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed) |
1919 |
"Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune |
1920 |
M R Rinehart & A Hopwood's "Bat" premieres in NYC |
1923 |
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. |
1924 |
Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century |
1926 |
40th US Women's Tennis: Molla Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (4-6 6-4 9-7) |
1929 |
Arabs attack Jews in Israel |
1930 |
44th US Women's Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (6-1 6-4) |
1931 |
45th US Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (6-4 6-1) |
1931 |
Count Gyula Károlyi becomes premier of Hungary |
1931 |
Phila A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight |
1933 |
1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London |
1933 |
Mahatma Gandhi released from Indian jail following yet another hunger strike |
1936 |
17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns |
1938 |
England score 7-903 decl v Australia Hutton 364 |
1939 |
John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats |
1939 |
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: Eastern Europe divided between Hitler & Stalin |
1939 |
USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact |
1940 |
German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London |
1940 |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands dismisses premier De Geer |
1942 |
1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal |
1942 |
Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die) |
1942 |
British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo |
1942 |
Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief |
1942 |
World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky. |
1943 |
Red army recaptures Charkow during WWII |
1944 |
94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsvelt |
1944 |
Allied troops capture Marseilles, France |
1944 |
General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris |
1944 |
General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley and Eisenhower |
1944 |
King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies & dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu |
1944 |
Romania liberated from Nazi occupation |
1944 |
Sammellager Drancy freed |
1944 |
US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine |
1944 |
US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed |
1946 |
13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380) |
1946 |
Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein. |
1947 |
US President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert |
1948 |
Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine |
1948 |
World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries |
1950 |
Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12) |
1950 |
West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation |
1952 |
Arab League security pact goes into effect |
1952 |
Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out & is also ejected for arguing |
1953 |
Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan |
1953 |
Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter |
1953 |
Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die |
1953 |
KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3") |
1953 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1954 |
President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily |
1954 |
First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. |
1955 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open |
1957 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
China PR resumes fire on Quemoi & Matsoe |
1958 |
Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours |
1958 |
Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy. |
1959 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open |
1960 |
World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea) |
1961 |
Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi |
1961 |
East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West & East Berlin |
1961 |
US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back |
1962 |
1st Europe-US live TV program (via Telstar) |
1963 |
Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK |
1963 |
Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By" |
1963 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1964 |
Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament |
1964 |
St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NL, & win World Series |
1966 |
Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon |
1968 |
Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily |
1968 |
Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew |
1969 |
Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno |
1969 |
France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912) |
1970 |
Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
1970 |
Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game |
1971 |
WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1972 |
Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley) |
1972 |
Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers |
1972 |
4 civilians and 1 British soldier are injured in separate overnight shooting incidents in North Ireland |
1973 |
Intelsat communications satellite launched |
1974 |
John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC |
1974 |
Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval |
1975 |
Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway |
1975 |
Communists take over Laos |
1975 |
Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile |
1975 |
Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack |
1975 |
Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland |
1975 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1976 |
Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die |
1977 |
1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor) |
1977 |
Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR |
1978 |
Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar |
1979 |
Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC |
1979 |
Iranian army opens offensive against Kurds |
1979 |
UN's Vienna office opens |
1980 |
Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss) |
1981 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf |
1982 |
Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president |
1982 |
Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter |
1982 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985 |
Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin |
1985 |
South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested |
1985 |
West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR |
1985 |
Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games |
1986 |
"Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances |
1986 |
Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon |
1987 |
15-year old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion |
1987 |
Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic |
1987 |
Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s |
1988 |
Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem |
1989 |
LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR) |
1989 |
Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38) |
1990 |
Armenia declares independence |
1990 |
East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3 |
1990 |
US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf |
1992 |
Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic |
1992 |
Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons |
1992 |
Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress |
1993 |
NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points |
1993 |
Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game |
1995 |
Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save |
1995 |
Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant |
1996 |
Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.' |
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. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne. |
2005 |
Hurricane Katrina first forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane |
2005 |
TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41. |
2006 |
Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity. |
2010 |
Manila hostage crisis, which occurred at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, where a dismissed police officer took hostage a tour bus full of Chinese nationals. |
2011 |
Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War. |
2011 |
5.8 earthquake occurrs in Mineral, Virginia felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia |
2012 |
Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia |
2012 |
At least 30 are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India |
2013 |
50 people are killed in mosque bombings in Tripoli, Lebanon |
2013 |
26 people are killed and 55 are injured by a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq |
2013 |
UN inspectors are stopped by Syrian government from investigating a reported site of a chemical massacre |
2016 |
State Dept. reviewing nearly 15000 Clinton emails |
2016 |
Texas judge blocks Obama's transgender bathroom directive |
2017 |
China July trade with North Korea slows from June as coal ban bites |
2017 |
Police use gas to disperse protesters outside Trump rally in Phoenix |
2017 |
US Navy to relieve Seventh Fleet commander after collisions in Asia |
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