The 23rd o August is the 235t day o the year (236t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 130 days bidin.
Events
1305: Monument tae William Wallace near Stirlin
1946: State Banner o North Rhine-Westphalie
1946: State Banner o Schleswig-Holstein
1989: The Baltic Way in Lithuanie
- 1305 - Scots patriot William Wallace is executit in Lunnon.
- 1328 - King Philip VI o Fraunce is crouned.
- 1821 - Mexico gains full unthirldom frae Spain.
- 1833 - Sclavery is abolished in Breetish colonies.
- 1839 - The Unitit Kinrick captures Hong Kong.
- 1866 - The Austrick-Proushie War ends wi the Treaty o Prague.
- 1873 - The Albert Brig across the River Thames in Lunnon opens.
- 1913 - A statue o the Little Marmaid (frae Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale) is put up in Copenhagen.
- 1914 - Warld War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
- 1924 - The distance atween the Yird an Mars is the smallest syne the 10t century.
- 1940 - Warld War II: German bombin o Lunnon stairts.
- 1942 - Warld War II: Stairt o the Battle o Stalingrad.
- 1943 - Warld War II: Kharkiv is liberatit.
- 1944 - Warld War II: Marseille is liberatit bi the Allies.
- 1944 - Warld War II: Romanie exits the war an switches sides frae the Axis tae the Allies.
- 1944 - A Unitit States bomber plane crashes intae a schuil in Freckleton, Ingland, killin 61 fowk.
- 1946 - Three states are creatit in post-war Germany's Breetish occupation zone: North Rhine-Westphalie, Schleswig-Holstein an the short-lived state o Hanover.
- 1950 - The Subansiri Dam Break in Indie kills 532 fowk.
- 1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 taks the first foto o the Yird frae the Muin's orbit.
- 1973 - In Chile, Salvador Allende names Augusto Pinochet as militar chief; Pinochet's militar coup on 11 September would result in Allende's suicide.
- 1987 - Heavy rains an floods kill 100s o fowk in Bangladesh.
- 1989 - Twa million fowk jyn hands frae Tallinn, Estonie tae Vilnius, Lithuanie in the Singin Revolution.
- 1990 - It is agreed that Germany will be reunitit on 3 October.
- 1990 - Armenie declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
- 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee opens the Warld Wide Web tae new users.
- 2005 - Hurricane Katrina forms.
- 2008 - Barack Obama chooses Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential Runnin Mate for the 2008 US Presidential election.
- 2010 - Nine fowk, incluidin the hostage taker, are kilt in a hostage crisis on a bus in Manila, the Philippines.
- 2018 - Sexual harrassment allegations against umwhile First Meenister o Scotland Alex Salmond are made public.
- 2020 - Polis in Kenosha, Wisconsin shuit an injure 29-year-auld African American Jacob Blake, stairtin major protests.
Births
Louis XVI o Fraunce
Edwyn Collins
- 1579 - Thomas Dempster, Scots scholart an historian (d. 1625)
- 1740 - Ivan VI o Roushie (d. 1764)
- 1754 - King Louis XVI o Fraunce (d. 1793)
- 1769 - Georges Cuvier, French naitularist an zoologist (d. 1832)
- 1839 - James Geikie, Scots geologist (d. 1915)
- 1848 - Henry Dyer, Scots ingineer (d. 1918)
- 1864 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime meenister o Greece (d. 1936)
- 1910 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian fitbawer (d. 1979)
- 1912 - Gene Kelly, American actor an dancer (d. 1996)
- 1921 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist (d. 2017)
- 1930 - Michel Rocard, umwhile Prime meenister o Fraunce (d. 2016)
- 1933 - Robert Curl, American chemist
- 1933 - David White, Scots fitbawer
- 1942 - Susana Vieira, Brazilian actress
- 1946 - Alex Rae, Scots fitbawer
- 1949 - Rick Springfield, Australie muisicker, sangster an sangwriter
- 1950 - Roza Otunbayeva, umwhile Preses o Kyrgyzstan
- 1959 - Edwyn Collins, Scots sangster (Orange Juice)
- 1967 - Jim Murphy, Scots politeecian
- 1970 - River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1974 - Konstantin Novoselov, Roushie-Breetish pheesicist
- 1978 - Kobe Bryant, American basketbaw player (d. 2020)
- 1982 - Steven MacLean, Scots fitbawer
- 1984 - Ashley Williams, Welsh fitbawer
- 1984 - Glen Johnson, Inglis fitbawer
Daiths
Halidays
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