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
- 1328 –Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1938 –English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
- 1943 –World War II: Kharkov liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
- 1946 –Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
- 1948 –World Council of Churches is formed.
- 1954 –First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
- 1958 –Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People’s Liberation Army’s bombardment of Quemoy.
- 1966 –Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
- 1970 –Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
- 1985 –Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
- 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.'
- 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
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