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
- 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.
- 1775 –King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
- 1799 –Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
- 1813 –At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
- 1839 –The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
- 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'.
- 1866 –Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
- 1914 –World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal.
- 1921 –British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only 4 survive.
- 1929 –Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
- 1943 –World War II: Kharkov liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
- 1944 –Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
- 1990 –Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1990 –Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western “guests” (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
- 1994 –Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
- 2000 –Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
- 2010 –Manila hostage crisis, in which 8 hostages were killed
- 2011 –A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Mineral, Virginia, the earthquake was felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia. Damaged occurred to monuments in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage was estimated at $100 Million.
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