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
- 1305 –Sir William Wallace is executed for High Treason at Smithfield in London.
- 1328 –Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
- 1650 –Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck’s Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
- 1799 –Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
- 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'.
- 1864 –The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
- 1904 –The automobile tire chain is patented.
- 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.
- 1923 –Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies (see King Michael’s Coup)
- 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.
- 1966 –Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
- 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.
- 2010 –Manila hostage crisis, in which 8 hostages were killed
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