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
- 1305 –Sir William Wallace is executed for High Treason at Smithfield in London.
- 1555 –Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
- 1595 –Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
- 1650 –Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck’s Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
- 1784 –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.
- 1799 –Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
- 1864 –The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
- 1896 –Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
- 1904 –The automobile tire chain is patented.
- 1914 –World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
- 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.
- 1927 –Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
- 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.
- 1966 –Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
- 1989 –1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
- 1990 –Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western “guests” (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
- 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.
- 2007 –The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Anastasia are found near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
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