About August 23
August 23, 2024 is the 236th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 130 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 159 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 23
- 406 –Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by the Roman army under Stilicho.
- 1541 –French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
- 1555 –Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
- 1595 –Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
- 1765 –Beginning of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
- 1813 –At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
- 1858 –The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
- 1914 –World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal.
- 1927 –Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
- 1942 –World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1944 –Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
- 1944 –World War II: Marseille liberated.
- 1946 –Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
- 1948 –World Council of Churches is formed.
- 1985 –Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
- 1989 –1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
- 1989 –Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
- 2006 –Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
- 2010 –Manila hostage crisis, in which 8 hostages were killed
- 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.
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