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
- 406 –Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by the Roman army under Stilicho.
- 1305 –Sir William Wallace is executed for High Treason at Smithfield in London.
- 1541 –French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
- 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.
- 1864 –The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1958 –Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People’s Liberation Army’s bombardment of Quemoy.
- 1977 –The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
- 1985 –Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
- 1990 –Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 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.'
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