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History Events on August 23

By  Les Davis  23 Aug   107 Views

History Events on August 23

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Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.

#Odoacer

In 476

Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.

#Siege_of_Jerusalem_(1244)

In 1244

Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.

#Captain_(United_States_O-3)

In 1923

Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.

#Nat_Turner's_slave_rebellion

In 1831

World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.

#Michael_I_of_Romania

In 1944

Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

#Siege_of_Moscow_(1382)

In 1382

World War II: Soviet-Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War".

#Soviet-Japanese_War

In 1945

Long Turkish War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of C?lug?reni and achieves a tactical victory.

#Long_Turkish_War

In 1595

Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.

#Battle_of_Cassel_(1328)

In 1328

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.

#Muammar_Gaddafi

In 2011

Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang P?iklopil, after eight years of captivity.

#Natascha_Kampusch

In 2006

George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.

#George_Villiers,_1st_Duke_of_Buckingham

In 1628

French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

#Jacques_Cartier

In 1541

The World Wide Web is opened to the public.

#World_Wide_Web

In 1991

Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

#Mount_Vesuvius

In 79

World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.

#Marseille

In 1944

Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.

#Saddam_Hussein

In 1990

Abu Bakr dies at Medina and is succeeded by Umar I who becomes the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.

#Abu_Bakr

In 634

Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.

#North_Carolina

In 1784

At the Battle of Großbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.

#Battle_of_Großbeeren

In 1813

Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.

#Chinese_Civil_War

In 1958

After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, eldest son of Mark Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.

#Egypt_(Roman_province)

In 30 BC

Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield, London.

#William_Wallace

In 1305

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.

#1929_Hebron_massacre

In 1929

American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.

#American_Revolutionary_War

In 1775

Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.

#Sacco_and_Vanzetti

In 1927

Battle of Tagliacozzo: The army of Charles of Anjou defeats the Ghibellines supporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen marking the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.

#Battle_of_Tagliacozzo

In 1268

Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

#Lunar_Orbiter_1

In 1966

The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.

#First_Opium_War

In 1839

Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.

#Albert_Bridge,_London

In 1873

American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.

#American_Civil_War

In 1864

World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.

#Japan_during_World_War_I

In 1914

Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.

#Ludi

In 20 BC

A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million-$300 million USD.

#2011_Virginia_earthquake

In 2011

Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.

#Napoleon

In 1799

Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

#Eugene_Bullard

In 1994

Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

#Armenia

In 1990

The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan

#Pontiac_Silverdome

In 1975

World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.

#Kharkiv

In 1943

The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.

#Southern_Cross_Expedition

In 1898

Gothic king Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by Roman general Stilicho and 12,000 "barbarians" are incorporated into the Roman army or sold as slaves.

#Goths

In 406

Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.

#Gulf_Air_Flight_072

In 2000

Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.

#Edirne_event

In 1703

World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.

#Battle_of_Stalingrad

In 1942

The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.

#Battle_of_Chaldiran

In 1514

A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".

#Norrmalmstorg_robbery

In 1973

Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.

#Freckleton_air_disaster

In 1944

Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.

#Battle_of_Gifu_Castle

In 1600

World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.

#World_War_I

In 1914

The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.

#Alexei_Nikolaevich,_Tsarevich_of_Russia

In 2007

World War II: Nazi 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.

#World_War_II

In 1939

Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.

#Austro-Prussian_War

In 1866

French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

#French_Wars_of_Religion

In 1572

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 four survive.

#R38-class_airship

In 1921

Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands.

#Singing_Revolution

In 1989

Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.

#Christian_II_of_Denmark

In 1521

A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.

In 2013

A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.

In 2012

West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.

In 1990

Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.

In 1985

Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.

In 1970

First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.

In 1954

World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.

In 1948

Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.

In 1946

The automobile tire chain is patented.

In 1904

Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

In 1655

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