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- 0079 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
- 1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed at for high treason by Edward I of England.
- 1328 Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
- 1541 French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
- 1541 Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 arrives at Iroquois village of Stadacona on his third trip to Canada; starts to build Charlesbourg-Royale at western tip of Cape Diamond; first French fort in Canada; first French settlement in America.
- 1555 Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
- 1577 Frobisher Bay NWT, Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 kidnaps three Inuit, then sets sail for England.
- 1595 Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
- 1614 The University of Groningen is established.
- 1617 First one-way streets established (London)
- 1617 The first one-way street is opened in London.
- 1651 Charles II of England enters Worcester and starts a fight.
- 1708 Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
- 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 leve en masse was decreed by the National Convention.
- 1797 Emanuel Allen sold at public auction in Montreal; last slave transaction in Canada.
- 1799 Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
- 1813 At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Blow repulse the French army.
- 1818 The first steamship trip is taken on Lake Erie.
- 1833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
- 1833 Slavery abolished in the British colonies.
- 1838 Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) first graduating class
- 1839 Hong Kong is taken by British in war with China.
- 1839 The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares to war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
- 1850 In the Lancaster Sound NWT, HMS Assistance and HMS Intrepid find first trace of lost Franklin expedition in Lancaster Sound, at Cape Riley and Beechey Island.
- 1864 Fall of Fort Morgan at Mobile
- 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.
- 1866 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
- 1869 The first carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
- 1872 The first Japanese commercial ship visits SF, carrying tea
- 1889 First wireless message from a ship to the shore received.
- 1889 The first ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
- 1896 First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila.
- 1900 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
- 1904 Automobile tire chain patented
- 1904 The automobile tire chain is patented.
- 1914 Japan declares war on Germany during WWI.
- 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.
- 1917 Ontario cabinet passes order-in-council allowing the city of Berlin to change its name to Kitchener, effective Sept. 1; due to wartime anti-German sentiment.
- 1917 Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
- 1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune
- 1921 Faisal I crowned King of Iraq.
- 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.
- 1924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since the 10th century
- 1924 The distance between Earth and Mars is the smallest since the 10th century.
- 1926 Motion picture star Rudolph Valentino dies in New York at age 31.
- 1927 Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston, Massachusetts after being found guilty of first degree murder.
- 1929 Hebron Massacre: Arab attack of the Jewish community in the British Mandate of Palestine resulted in 133 Jews killed, 67 in Hebron.
- 1939 Soviet-German pact is signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop.
- 1939 USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
- 1942 World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1943 World War II: Kharkov liberated.
- 1944 Freckleton Air Disaster - A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
- 1944 Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day 1944-1990)
- 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 World War II: Marseille liberated.
- 1946 Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
- 1947 Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's first public singing concert
- 1948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
- 1950 West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
- 1950 West Germany and Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation.
- 1952 The Arab League is formed.
- 1952 Visitor posting - The date Eileen Halacy-Chesley was born - USA
- 1953 Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3«")
- 1956 Soviet Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the U.S. during a performance in New York City.
- 1956 The first non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight begins.
- 1958 Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
- 1958 Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
- 1959 Visitor posting - Aug 23, 1959 Laura Gunton McCatty was born in Summit, New Jersey.
- 1960 Visitor posting - James Ronold Wilson II born in Salina KS - USA
- 1960 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
- 1961 US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
- 1963 Beatles release "She Loves You" in the UK
- 1963 Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
- 1964 Footbridge collapses over river gorge in Venezuela, and 29 people fall to their deaths in rapids below.
- 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes first photograph of Earth from Moon
- 1968 Ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
- 1969 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno, Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
- 1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
- 1973 The Intelsat communication satellite is launched.
- 1975 Successful Communist coup in Laos.
- 1977 The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
- 1977 The first man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
- 1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
- 1979 Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
- 1979 UN's Vienna office opens
- 1980 In the Kashmir - India Border Region a 5.2 quake killed 15 people killed, at least 40 injured and many houses damaged in the Bhaddu area, Kashmir
- 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
- 1982 Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
- 1983 Visitor posting - jennyfer darkins now dennehy was born - United Kingdom
- 1985 Famous shipwreck RMS Titanic is found.
- 1985 Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
- 1985 In the Southern Xinjiang, China region a 7.3 quake killed at least 71, 162 injured, about 15,000 homeless and about 85 percent of the buildings destroyed in the Wuqia-Shufu area
- 1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
- 1985 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
- 1986 Number one hit on UK music charts - Boris Gardiner - I Want to Wake Up With You
- 1987 Heavy rains and floods in Bangladesh kill hundreds of victims.
- 1988 Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
- 1989 All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
- 1989 Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
- 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.
- 1990 West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
- 1992 More than 500 survivors return to Singapore from the cruise ship Royal Pacific, which sank after a collision with a fishing boat
- 1992 Visitor posting - august 23 1992 zachariah russo a.k.a zeek was born :)
- 1994 Visitor posting - Chris Martin (RawBeast) was born - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - On Aug. 23, 1994 Raulie Acosta was born:) - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - a princess was born: ~Kassandra~ a.k.a BuBBleZ - USA
- 1995 Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (Life magazine) dies at age 96.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Jonkita Shields Was Born - USA
- 1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
- 2000 Visitor posting - Ethan Harper born - USA
- 2000 A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
- 2000 A Gulf Air Airbus jetliner with 140 aboard crashes into the Persian Gulf near Bahrain shortly after takeoff, leaving no survivors.
- 2000 In a 'reality TV' record an estimated 51 million US viewers tuned in for the finale of CBS' series Survivor, in which contestant Richard Hatch won the $US1 million prize.
- 2000 Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.
- 2005 TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41.
- 2006 Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
- 2006 Visitor posting - Imagine Davis Fell In Love With Micah Livingston - USA
- 2009 26 men accused of plotting attacks on tourist resorts and ships in the Suez Canal on behalf of Lebanon's Hezbollah group go on trial in an Egyptian security court.
- 2009 A leak at an offshore oil rig that caused a large oil spill off the coast of Australia "could take weeks" to be plugged.
- 2009 A new picture of Fidel Castro is published in the Juventud Rebelde state-run newspaper, apparently showing Cuba's ailing former leader in much better health.
- 2009 A severe drought in northern China leaves 5 million people short of water and damages 8.7 million hectares of farmland.
- 2009 Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main rival Abdullah Abdullah alleges fraud in the presidential election.
- 2009 England reclaim The Ashes with a 2-1 series win over Australia.
- 2009 Honduras's Supreme Court rejects a Costa Rica-brokered deal to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power and orders his arrest if he returns.
- 2009 Iraq broadcasts a video of former police chief Wissam Ali Kadhem Ibrahim, a Saddam Hussein loyalist, confessing to orchestrating a truck bombing at the finance ministry, the first of two bombings that killed 95 people and maimed hundreds more in Baghdad on 19 August.
- 2009 North Korean envoys meet the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for the first time since he took office.
- 2009 Tens of thousands of people in the Baltic states mark the twentieth anniversary of the 'Baltic Way' - when two million people formed a human chain to protest against Soviet Union rule.
- 2009 Tens of thousands of people protest against a new law which gives women equal rights in marriage in Bamako, Mali.
- 2009 Thousands of people are evacuated as forest fires reach the outskirts of the Greek capital, Athens.
- 2009 Visitor posting - August 23 2009 Herbert and Ashley wed - Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA
- 2009 Yemeni troops claim to have killed more than 100 Shia rebels in the past two weeks, including two leaders, but the rebels deny their leaders, Mohsen Saleh Gawd and Salah Jorman, are dead and no independent confirmation is made available.
- 2009 ZANU-PF party members walk out of a meeting of Zimbabwe cabinet members to review the work of a unity government it has formed with its opponents, over charges of electoral fraud.
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