WillDekkard
08-23-2010, 03:18 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - August 23rd
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* 79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
* 1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
* 1328 Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
* 1514 Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
* 1541 French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
* 1555 Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
* 1572 Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
* 1595 Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
* 1708 Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
* 1775 King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
* 1784 Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasnt accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
* 1793 French Revolution: a levιe en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
* 1799 Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
* 1813 At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bόlow 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'.
* 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.
* 1873 Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opened.
* 1896 First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1927 Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
* 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.
* 1938 English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
* 1939 World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
* 1942 World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
* 1943 World War II: Kharkov liberated.
* 1944 World War II: Marseille liberated.
* 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.
* 1944 Freckleton Air Disaster A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
* 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.
* 1975 Successful Communist coup in Laos.
* 1977 The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
* 1979 Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
* 1982 Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
* 1985 Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
* 1989 Hungary: the last communist government open the Iron curtain and causes the exodus of thousands of Eastern Germans to West Germany via Hungary (September 11).
* 1989 Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
* 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.
* 1990 Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
* 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.'
* 2000 Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
* 2006 Natascha Kampusch, who is abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
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This Date in History - August 23rd
c/p from Wikipedia
* 79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
* 1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
* 1328 Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
* 1514 Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
* 1541 French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
* 1555 Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
* 1572 Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
* 1595 Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
* 1708 Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
* 1775 King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
* 1784 Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasnt accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
* 1793 French Revolution: a levιe en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
* 1799 Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
* 1813 At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bόlow 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'.
* 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.
* 1873 Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opened.
* 1896 First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1927 Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
* 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.
* 1938 English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
* 1939 World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
* 1942 World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
* 1943 World War II: Kharkov liberated.
* 1944 World War II: Marseille liberated.
* 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.
* 1944 Freckleton Air Disaster A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
* 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.
* 1975 Successful Communist coup in Laos.
* 1977 The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
* 1979 Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
* 1982 Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
* 1985 Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
* 1989 Hungary: the last communist government open the Iron curtain and causes the exodus of thousands of Eastern Germans to West Germany via Hungary (September 11).
* 1989 Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
* 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.
* 1990 Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
* 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.'
* 2000 Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
* 2006 Natascha Kampusch, who is abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
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