About August 23
August 23, 2025 is the 235th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 130 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 178 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 23
- 1514 –Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
- 1555 –Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
- 1650 –Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck’s Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
- 1765 –Beginning of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
- 1775 –King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
- 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'.
- 1904 –The automobile tire chain is patented.
- 1938 –English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
- 1939 –World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
- 1943 –World War II: Kharkov liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
- 1970 –Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
- 1977 –The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
- 1982 –Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
- 1985 –Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
- 1990 –Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1990 –West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
- 1994 –Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
- 1996 –Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
- 2010 –Manila hostage crisis, in which 8 hostages were killed
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