A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on August 23 throughout history.
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Sir William Wallace was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence. Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of...
Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his major work, the "Beit Yosef," a voluminous commentary on the "Arba'ah Turim" code
The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a...
Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, ends after 50 days as the Soviet Union defeats Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, and nearly 250,000 combatants are killed
Osama bin Laden issues a message entitled "A Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places"
First televised boxing match, a six-round exhibition at Broadcasting House in London between middleweights Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri, airs on BBC TV
The Big Sleep is a 1946 American film noir directed by Howard Hawks. William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay, which adapts Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel.
"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984).
Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Beijing Olympics when he takes gold in the 5,000m in an Olympic record 12:57.82
Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley weds traveling show marksman Frank E. Butler
"King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
Former Swedish model Elin Nordegren (30) divorces professional golfer Tiger Woods (34) after 6 years of marriage
Odoacer (433 – 15 March 493 AD), also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a barbarian soldier and statesman from the Middle Danube who was an officer of the Roman army and deposed the Western Roman...
King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
Treaty of Melfi: Pope Nicholas II recognizes the Norman conquest of Southern Italy by appointing Norman adventurer Robert Guiscard Duke of Apulia and Calabria and Count of Sicily
Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
Holland and Hanzesteden sign a ceasefire treaty
Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire over Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid Empire
Stephen Gardiner (27 July 1483 – 12 November 1555) was an English Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary...
Beeldenstormˌstɔr (ə)m]) in Dutch and Bildersturm [ˈbɪldɐˌʃtʊʁm] in German (roughly translatable from both languages as 'attack on the images or statues') are terms used for outbreaks of destruction...
Francis of Valois, Duke of Anjou, pays tribute to the Earl of Flanders
Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni
The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen,...
First one-way streets open in London
Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur
British fleet under Admiral Hovenden Walker loses 950 men when 8 ships founder on rocks at Île-aux-Oeufs on their way to attack Quebec
Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later, the Continental Congress rejects it
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Methodist denomination based in the United States.
The Battle of Großbeeren occurred on 23 August 1813 in neighboring Blankenfelde and Sputendorf between the Prussian III Corps under Friedrich von Bülow and the Franco-Saxon VII Corps under Jean...
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, graduates its first class
Hong Kong was under British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945.
Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (two Federal regiments)
Alabama was central to the Civil War, with the secession convention at Montgomery, the birthplace of the Confederacy, inviting other slaveholding states to form a southern republic, during...
The Austro-Prussian War (German: Preußisch-Österreichischer Krieg) or German War of Brothers (German: Deutscher Bruderkrieg) was fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia,...
First carload of rail freight (boots and shoes) arrives in San Francisco from Boston after a 16-day trip
First Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco carrying tea
Albert Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames connecting Chelsea on the north bank to Battersea on the south.
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north,...
Philadelphia Quakers make 27 errors against Providence Grays in a 28-0 shutout defeat at Messer Street Grounds; wild pitches, walks, and passed balls count as errors in MLB prior to 1888
First ship-to-shore wireless message ("Sherman is sighted") is received in the US from Lightship No. 70 to a coastal receiving station at Cliff House in San Francisco
The Cry of Pugad Lawin (Filipino: Sigaw sa Pugad Lawin, Spanish: Grito de Pugad Lawin) was the beginning of the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish Empire. In late August 1896, members of the...
The National Negro Business League (NNBL) was an American organization founded in Boston in 1900 by Booker T. Washington to promote the interests of African-American businesses.
Automobile tire chain patented
Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, defeating Washington Senators 4-1 at American League Park
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Howie Camnitz no-hits the NY Giants, 1-0, in a 5-inning game at the Polo Grounds, NYC
Fred Clifford Clarke (October 3, 1872 – August 14, 1960) was an American Major League Baseball player from 1894 to 1915 and manager from 1897 to 1915.
The Battle of Mons, or the First Battle of Mons to differentiate it from another battle later in the war, was the first big engagement of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War.
Tsar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht was a German socialist politician and revolutionary.
A mutiny and riot by 156 soldiers from the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army took place on August 23, 1917, in Houston, Texas.
American swimmer Warren Kealoha wins his first of two consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100 m backstroke, beating teammate Ray Kegeris at the Antwerp Games
Austria and the US formally end the war; the US does the same with Germany on the 25th and Hungary on the 29th
Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first mid-air refueling on a De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours
Mars makes its closest approach to Earth since the 10th century
The 1929 Palestine riots, also known as the Western Wall Riots, the Buraq Uprising or the Events of 1929, were a series of demonstrations and riots in Mandatory Palestine in late August 1929...
The 1930 British Empire Games were the inaugural edition of what is now known as the Commonwealth Games, and was held in Hamilton, Ontario, from 16 to 23 August 1930.
Count Gyula Károlyi de Nagykároly in English: Julius Károlyi (7 May 1871 – 23 April 1947) was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1931 to 1932.
British motorist John Cobb breaks the land speed record, reaching 365.85 mph (589.74 kph) on the Bonneville Salt Flats
World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo, Egypt
94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands, and 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsveld
13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380 attendees)
US President Truman's daughter, Margaret, gives her first public singing concert
Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte of the United Nations asks for aid for fugitives to Palestine
West Germany and Japan are readmitted to the International Amateur Athletic Federation
Arab League security pact goes into effect
Dutch cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
"Musical Marie" Ashton completes a 133-hour piano marathon at the Plaza-Central cinema in England, setting a female record for continuous piano playing
World's largest frog, a Goliath frog weighing 3.3 kg, is found in Equatorial Guinea
Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
First Europe-US live TV program via Telstar
"She Loves You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released as a single in the United Kingdom on 23 August 1963.
The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) was a project to digitize the original analog data tapes from the five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that were sent to the Moon in 1966 and 1967; it was...
Ringo temporarily quits The Beatles over a disagreement and rejoins the group after a holiday in Sardinia
American Audrey McElmory wins the World Cycling Championships in Brno, Czechoslovakia
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walkerwalˈkeɾ]; August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh...
WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
Four civilians and one British soldier are injured in separate overnight shooting incidents in Northern Ireland
MLB Chicago White Sox slugger Dick Allen becomes the fourth player to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers, a feat previously achieved by only Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson
Intelsat S.A. (formerly Intel-Sat, Intelsat) is a Luxembourgish-American multinational satellite services provider with corporate headquarters in Luxembourg and administrative headquarters in Tysons,...
British "Free" guitarist Paul Kossoff is revived after a heart attack but dies in 1976
An earthquake occurred in the province of Sichuan, China at 14:28:01 China Standard Time on May 12, 2008.
First human-powered flight over a mile by Bryan Allen in the Gossamer Condor, designed by Paul MacCready, wins the first Kremer Prize
Iranian students occupy the Iranian embassy in Wassenaar
Kurds, or the Kurdish people, are an Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq,...
Charles O. Finley sells the Oakland A's MLB franchise for $12.7 million to Walter Haas Jr., owner and CEO of Levi Strauss
Amine Pierre Gemayel is a Lebanese politician who served as the eighth president of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988. Gemayel was born in Bikfaya to Pierre Gemayel, the founder of the Christian Kataeb Party...
Gaylord Jackson Perry (September 15, 1938 – December 1, 2022) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for eight teams from 1962 to 1983, becoming one of the...
Paul Hornung is awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against the NCAA, which barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
15-year-old boy hijacks KLM B737 and demands $1 billion
Lewis, Everett, Burrell, and Heard run a world record 4 x 200 m (1:19.38)
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No.
Dennis Eckersley, who previously set the record for most consecutive saves (40), is the first pitcher to record 40 saves in four different seasons
Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
Fred McGriff and David Justice are the sixth to hit back-to-back home runs twice in the same game
Larry Martin Hagman (September 21, 1931 – November 23, 2012) was an American actor, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R.
Gulf Air Flight 072 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Cairo International Airport, Egypt, to Bahrain International Airport, Bahrain, operated by Gulf Air.
An American sweep in the 400 m medals at the Athens Olympics; Jeremy Wariner wins gold in 44.00 ahead of Otis Harris and Derrick Brew
Natascha Kampusch, abducted at the age of 10, manages to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil after eight years of captivity
The #hashtag is invented and first used in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina
Australian diver Matthew Mitcham wins the men's 10 m platform gold medal with a final dive at the Beijing Olympics, preventing the Chinese from winning every diving event and achieving the highest score for an individual dive in Olympic history (112.10)
The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Mike Reid wins his second Champions Tour major with birdie on first playoff hole against John Cook
A hostage crisis occurs at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, where a dismissed police officer takes hostage a tour bus full of Chinese nationals
On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Virginia at 1:51:04 p.m. EDT.
At least 30 people are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India
Estimates of the casualties from the Iraq War (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency and civil war) have come in several forms, and those estimates of...
Alex Puccio (born Alexandrea Elizabeth Cocca on June 15, 1989 in McKinney, Texas) is an American professional climber specializing in bouldering.
A 12-year-old boy trips and rips the 17th-century painting "Flowers" by Paolo Porpora, worth $1.5 million, at an exhibition in Taiwan
Airstrike on hotel in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, by Saudi-led coalition leaves at least 30 dead
Akademik Lomonosov is a non-self-propelled power barge that operates as the first Russian floating nuclear power station. The ship was named after academician Mikhail Lomonosov.
US Food and Drug Administration grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people 16 and over, the first vaccine to move past emergency-use status in the US
At least 26 people are killed after a railway bridge under construction collapses near the Indian town of Sairang in Mizoram state [1]
Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels steals a base and hits a grand slam in a 7-3 win at home over Tampa Bay, becoming just the sixth MLB player to have 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season; he does so in the fewest number of games, 126
Robert Solow, American economist and nobel laureate, known for american economist and nobel laureate, was born on 1924-08-23.
Thomas A. Steitz, American biochemist, known for american biochemist, was born on 1940-08-23.
River Phoenix, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1970-08-23. River Jude Phoenix (né Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor.
Vera Miles, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1930-08-23. Vera June Miles is a retired American actress.
Barbara Eden, American actress and singer, known for american actress and singer, was born on 1932-08-23.
Shelley Long, American actress and comedian, known for american actress and comedian, was born on 1950-08-23. Shelley Lee Long is an American actress, singer, and comedian.
Keith Moon, English musician, known for english rock drummer, was born on 1946-08-23.
Nancy Richey is born
Chris DiMarco is born
Odoacer (433 – 15 March 493 AD), also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a barbarian soldier and statesman from the Middle Danube who was an officer of the Roman army and deposed the Western Roman...
King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
Treaty of Melfi: Pope Nicholas II recognizes the Norman conquest of Southern Italy by appointing Norman adventurer Robert Guiscard Duke of Apulia and Calabria and Count of Sicily
Sir William Wallace was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence. Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of...
Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
Holland and Hanzesteden sign a ceasefire treaty
Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire over Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid Empire
Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his major work, the "Beit Yosef," a voluminous commentary on the "Arba'ah Turim" code
Stephen Gardiner (27 July 1483 – 12 November 1555) was an English Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary...
Beeldenstormˌstɔr (ə)m]) in Dutch and Bildersturm [ˈbɪldɐˌʃtʊʁm] in German (roughly translatable from both languages as 'attack on the images or statues') are terms used for outbreaks of destruction...
Francis of Valois, Duke of Anjou, pays tribute to the Earl of Flanders
Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni
The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen,...
First one-way streets open in London
George Villiers dies
Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur
British fleet under Admiral Hovenden Walker loses 950 men when 8 ships founder on rocks at Île-aux-Oeufs on their way to attack Quebec
Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later, the Continental Congress rejects it
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Methodist denomination based in the United States.
The Battle of Großbeeren occurred on 23 August 1813 in neighboring Blankenfelde and Sputendorf between the Prussian III Corps under Friedrich von Bülow and the Franco-Saxon VII Corps under Jean...
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, graduates its first class
Hong Kong was under British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945.
Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (two Federal regiments)
Alabama was central to the Civil War, with the secession convention at Montgomery, the birthplace of the Confederacy, inviting other slaveholding states to form a southern republic, during...
The Austro-Prussian War (German: Preußisch-Österreichischer Krieg) or German War of Brothers (German: Deutscher Bruderkrieg) was fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia,...
First carload of rail freight (boots and shoes) arrives in San Francisco from Boston after a 16-day trip
First Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco carrying tea
Albert Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames connecting Chelsea on the north bank to Battersea on the south.
Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley weds traveling show marksman Frank E. Butler
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north,...
Philadelphia Quakers make 27 errors against Providence Grays in a 28-0 shutout defeat at Messer Street Grounds; wild pitches, walks, and passed balls count as errors in MLB prior to 1888
First ship-to-shore wireless message ("Sherman is sighted") is received in the US from Lightship No. 70 to a coastal receiving station at Cliff House in San Francisco
The Cry of Pugad Lawin (Filipino: Sigaw sa Pugad Lawin, Spanish: Grito de Pugad Lawin) was the beginning of the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish Empire. In late August 1896, members of the...
The National Negro Business League (NNBL) was an American organization founded in Boston in 1900 by Booker T. Washington to promote the interests of African-American businesses.
Automobile tire chain patented
Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, defeating Washington Senators 4-1 at American League Park
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Howie Camnitz no-hits the NY Giants, 1-0, in a 5-inning game at the Polo Grounds, NYC
Fred Clifford Clarke (October 3, 1872 – August 14, 1960) was an American Major League Baseball player from 1894 to 1915 and manager from 1897 to 1915.
The Battle of Mons, or the First Battle of Mons to differentiate it from another battle later in the war, was the first big engagement of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War.
Tsar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht was a German socialist politician and revolutionary.
A mutiny and riot by 156 soldiers from the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army took place on August 23, 1917, in Houston, Texas.
American swimmer Warren Kealoha wins his first of two consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100 m backstroke, beating teammate Ray Kegeris at the Antwerp Games
Austria and the US formally end the war; the US does the same with Germany on the 25th and Hungary on the 29th
Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first mid-air refueling on a De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours
Mars makes its closest approach to Earth since the 10th century
Robert Solow, American economist and nobel laureate, known for american economist and nobel laureate, was born on 1924-08-23.
The 1929 Palestine riots, also known as the Western Wall Riots, the Buraq Uprising or the Events of 1929, were a series of demonstrations and riots in Mandatory Palestine in late August 1929...
The 1930 British Empire Games were the inaugural edition of what is now known as the Commonwealth Games, and was held in Hamilton, Ontario, from 16 to 23 August 1930.
Vera Miles, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1930-08-23. Vera June Miles is a retired American actress.
Count Gyula Károlyi de Nagykároly in English: Julius Károlyi (7 May 1871 – 23 April 1947) was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1931 to 1932.
Barbara Eden, American actress and singer, known for american actress and singer, was born on 1932-08-23.
First televised boxing match, a six-round exhibition at Broadcasting House in London between middleweights Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri, airs on BBC TV
British motorist John Cobb breaks the land speed record, reaching 365.85 mph (589.74 kph) on the Bonneville Salt Flats
World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory.
Thomas A. Steitz, American biochemist, known for american biochemist, was born on 1940-08-23.
The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a...
"King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo, Egypt
Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, ends after 50 days as the Soviet Union defeats Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, and nearly 250,000 combatants are killed
Nancy Richey is born
94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands, and 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsveld
The Big Sleep is a 1946 American film noir directed by Howard Hawks. William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay, which adapts Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel.
13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380 attendees)
Keith Moon, English musician, known for english rock drummer, was born on 1946-08-23.
US President Truman's daughter, Margaret, gives her first public singing concert
Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte of the United Nations asks for aid for fugitives to Palestine
West Germany and Japan are readmitted to the International Amateur Athletic Federation
Shelley Long, American actress and comedian, known for american actress and comedian, was born on 1950-08-23. Shelley Lee Long is an American actress, singer, and comedian.
Arab League security pact goes into effect
Dutch cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
"Musical Marie" Ashton completes a 133-hour piano marathon at the Plaza-Central cinema in England, setting a female record for continuous piano playing
World's largest frog, a Goliath frog weighing 3.3 kg, is found in Equatorial Guinea
Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
First Europe-US live TV program via Telstar
"She Loves You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released as a single in the United Kingdom on 23 August 1963.
The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) was a project to digitize the original analog data tapes from the five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that were sent to the Moon in 1966 and 1967; it was...
Ringo temporarily quits The Beatles over a disagreement and rejoins the group after a holiday in Sardinia
American Audrey McElmory wins the World Cycling Championships in Brno, Czechoslovakia
Chris DiMarco is born
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walkerwalˈkeɾ]; August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh...
River Phoenix, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1970-08-23. River Jude Phoenix (né Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor.
WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
Four civilians and one British soldier are injured in separate overnight shooting incidents in Northern Ireland
MLB Chicago White Sox slugger Dick Allen becomes the fourth player to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers, a feat previously achieved by only Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson
Intelsat S.A. (formerly Intel-Sat, Intelsat) is a Luxembourgish-American multinational satellite services provider with corporate headquarters in Luxembourg and administrative headquarters in Tysons,...
British "Free" guitarist Paul Kossoff is revived after a heart attack but dies in 1976
An earthquake occurred in the province of Sichuan, China at 14:28:01 China Standard Time on May 12, 2008.
First human-powered flight over a mile by Bryan Allen in the Gossamer Condor, designed by Paul MacCready, wins the first Kremer Prize
Iranian students occupy the Iranian embassy in Wassenaar
Kurds, or the Kurdish people, are an Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq,...
Charles O. Finley sells the Oakland A's MLB franchise for $12.7 million to Walter Haas Jr., owner and CEO of Levi Strauss
Amine Pierre Gemayel is a Lebanese politician who served as the eighth president of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988. Gemayel was born in Bikfaya to Pierre Gemayel, the founder of the Christian Kataeb Party...
Gaylord Jackson Perry (September 15, 1938 – December 1, 2022) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for eight teams from 1962 to 1983, becoming one of the...
Paul Hornung is awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against the NCAA, which barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
15-year-old boy hijacks KLM B737 and demands $1 billion
Lewis, Everett, Burrell, and Heard run a world record 4 x 200 m (1:19.38)
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No.
Dennis Eckersley, who previously set the record for most consecutive saves (40), is the first pitcher to record 40 saves in four different seasons
Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
Fred McGriff and David Justice are the sixth to hit back-to-back home runs twice in the same game
"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984).
Larry Martin Hagman (September 21, 1931 – November 23, 2012) was an American actor, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R.
Osama bin Laden issues a message entitled "A Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places"
Gulf Air Flight 072 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Cairo International Airport, Egypt, to Bahrain International Airport, Bahrain, operated by Gulf Air.
An American sweep in the 400 m medals at the Athens Olympics; Jeremy Wariner wins gold in 44.00 ahead of Otis Harris and Derrick Brew
Natascha Kampusch, abducted at the age of 10, manages to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil after eight years of captivity
Ed Warren dies
The #hashtag is invented and first used in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina
Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Beijing Olympics when he takes gold in the 5,000m in an Olympic record 12:57.82
Australian diver Matthew Mitcham wins the men's 10 m platform gold medal with a final dive at the Beijing Olympics, preventing the Chinese from winning every diving event and achieving the highest score for an individual dive in Olympic history (112.10)
The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Mike Reid wins his second Champions Tour major with birdie on first playoff hole against John Cook
Former Swedish model Elin Nordegren (30) divorces professional golfer Tiger Woods (34) after 6 years of marriage
A hostage crisis occurs at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, where a dismissed police officer takes hostage a tour bus full of Chinese nationals
On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Virginia at 1:51:04 p.m. EDT.
At least 30 people are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India
Estimates of the casualties from the Iraq War (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency and civil war) have come in several forms, and those estimates of...
Alex Puccio (born Alexandrea Elizabeth Cocca on June 15, 1989 in McKinney, Texas) is an American professional climber specializing in bouldering.
A 12-year-old boy trips and rips the 17th-century painting "Flowers" by Paolo Porpora, worth $1.5 million, at an exhibition in Taiwan
Airstrike on hotel in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, by Saudi-led coalition leaves at least 30 dead
Akademik Lomonosov is a non-self-propelled power barge that operates as the first Russian floating nuclear power station. The ship was named after academician Mikhail Lomonosov.
US Food and Drug Administration grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people 16 and over, the first vaccine to move past emergency-use status in the US
At least 26 people are killed after a railway bridge under construction collapses near the Indian town of Sairang in Mizoram state [1]
Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels steals a base and hits a grand slam in a 7-3 win at home over Tampa Bay, becoming just the sixth MLB player to have 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season; he does so in the fewest number of games, 126