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2005-08-23

On this day in History - Aug 23

0093 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola dies (b. 0040). Roman governor of Britain
0634 - Abu Bakr dies. Muslim Caliph
0686 - Charles Martel was born (d. 0741). Grandfather of Charlemagne.
1305 - William Wallace dies executed. Scottish patriot
1328 - Battle of Kassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers
1328 - King Phillip VI of France is crowned.
1498 - Morre D. Isabel, rainha de Portugal, esposa de D. Dinis.
1540 - French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec in his voyage to Canada.
1566 - Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands
1591 - Morre Fray Luis de León, professor, teólogo e poeta espanhol.
1614 - The University of Groningen is established
1617 - In London, the first one-way street is established
1618 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero dies (b. 1585). Dutch poet and playwright.
1623 - Stanisław Lubieniecki was born (d. 1675). Polish astronomer.
1651 - Charles II of England enters Battle of Worcester and starts a battle.
1723 - Increase Mather dies (b. 1639). New England Puritan minister.
1740 - Ivan VI was born. Emperor of Russia (1740-41)
1741 - Jean-François de Galaup, count de La Pérouse was born (d. 1788). French explorer.
1754 - Louis XVI of France was born (d. 1792 guillotined). King of France (1774-1792)
1754 - Louis Auguste de Bourbon was born in Versailles, Paris (d. 21 Jan 1793)
1769 - Georges Cuvier was born. Biologist, statesman
1783 - William Tierney Clark was born (d. 1852). Civil engineer.
1784 - Eastern Tennessee declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; the step is rejected by Congress one year later
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry was born. U.S. naval officer
1798 - Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb dies (b. 1736). French physicist.
1812 - Argentina: Se iza por primera vez en Buenos Aires la bandera celeste y blanca, en la torre de la iglesia de San Nicolás.
1813 - At the Battle of Grossbeeren the Prussians under Von Bulow repulse the French army.
1813 - Alexander Wilson dies (b. 1766). Ornithologist.
1821 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain
1829 - Moritz Cantor was born. Mathematician
1833 - Slavery abolished in the British colonies.
1838 - O general Agustín Gamarra é nomeado Presidente da República do Perú.
1839 - The UK captures Hong Kong
1847 - Sarah Frances Whiting was born (d. 1927). Physicist and astronomer.
1849 - William Ernest Henley was born (d. 1903). British poet, critic and editor.
1852 - Arnold Toynbee was born. Economist, social reformer.
1862 - Muere en Goya, Corrientes, el doctor Eduardo Acevedo, uruguayo de nacimiento, quien junto con doctor Vélez Sarsfield fue autor del “Código de Comercio”, por encargo del Gobierno Argentino.
1864 - Eleftherios Venizalos was born. Prime Minister of Greece
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 - Auguste Barthelemy dies (b. 1796). French poet.
1869 - Edgar Lee Masters was born (d. 1950). Author.
1873 - Albert Bridge crossing Thames opens
1875 - William Eccles was born. Radio pioneer.
1883 - US General Jonathan Wainwright was born. Medal of Honor recipient
1884 - Will Cuppy was born (d. 1949). Humorist.
1889 - Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring was born.
1889 - First wireless message from a ship to the shore received.
1892 - Morre Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca (n. 05 Ago 1827). Militar e político brasileiro. Liderou o golpe militar que acabou com a monarquia no Brasil, instaurando a República :Proclamação da República (15 Nov1889), Chefe do Governo Provisório (15 Nov 1889 a 24 Fev 1891) e primeiro Presidente (25 Fev 1891 a 23 Nov 1891, renunciando).
1900 - Ernst Krenek was born (d. 1991). Composer.
1901 - John Sherman Cooper was born (d. 1991). U.S. Senator from Kentucky.
1903 - William Primrose was born (d. 1982). Scottish violist.
1903 - 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
1903 - Muere en Buenos Aires, el escritor y periodista argentino José Sixto Álvarez, conocido como “Fray Mocho”. Fue fundador de la revista satírica "Caras y Caretas" donde se reflejó la vida política argentina de las últimas décadas del siglo pasado.
1904 - The automobile tire chain is patented.
1905 - Constant Lambert was born (d. 1951). Composer.
1910 - Giuseppe Meazza was born in Milan (d. 1979). Legendary italian football player. World Champion 1934 and 1938.
1912 - Nasce em Recife, Pernambuco, Nelson Rodrigues (m. 21 Dez 1980). Jornalista, dramaturgo (estréia em 1941 com "A Mulher Sem Pecado"), escritor e comentador de futebol ( autor de: "Toda Nudez Será Castigada", "Beijo no Asfalto", "Os 7 Gatinhos", "Engraçadinha") 1912 - Gene Kelly was born (d. 1996). Dancer, actor.
1914 - Harold Truscott was born (d. 1992). Composer.
1914 - Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1917 - Tex Williams was born. Singer
1921 - Eadie Del Rubio (d. 1996), Elena Del Rubio (d. 2001), and Milly Del Rubio were born. The Del Rubio Triplets. Singers, musicians, actresses.
1921 - Feisal I é proclamado rei do Iraque.
1921 - Kenneth J. Arrow was born in New York. American economist, 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics co-laureate (with John R Hicks, Oxford University, U K) "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory".
1922 - George Kell was born. Baseball player.
1922 - Nasce, no Rio de Janeiro, Tonia Carrero (Maria Antonieta de Farias Porto Carrero). Actriz cinematográfica (estreia em "Querida Suzana", 1947), teatro e TV, destaca-se em telenovelas da Rede Globo.
1922 - Fundação da "Federación Peruana de Fútbol"
1923 - Edgar F. Codd was born. Founder of theory of relational databases.
1923 - Nasce Esther Williams, atriz e nadadora norte-americana.
1924 - Robert Merton Solow was born in Brooklyn, New York. American economist. 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics laureate " for his contributions to the theory of economic growth"
1924 - Ephraim Kishon was born. Israeli writer
1924 - The distance between Earth and Mars is the smallest since the 10th century.
1925 - Britain's Betty Nuthall wins US Lawn Tennis championship
1926 - Rudolph Valentino dies (b. 6 May 1895). Italian actor, silent movie idol
1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti die (executed). Anarchists.
1927 - Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1927 - Houari Boumediène was born. President of Algeria (1965-1978)
1927 - Dick Bruna was born. Illustrator
1929 - Vera Miles was born. Actress (Psicho)
1929 - Peter Thompson was born. Golfer.
1929 - Arabs attack Jews in Israel.
1930 - David Salamanca es elegido presidente de Bolivia.
1930 - Michel Rocard was born. Prime Minister of France
1931 - Nasce Hamilton Smith, biólogo norte-americano, Nobel de Medicina e Fisiologia de 1978.
1932 - Mark Russell was born. Comedian, musician, political commentator.
1933 - Nasce, em S. Pedro do Estoril, Cascais, António Henrique Rodrigo de Oliveira Marques. Professor universitário e historiador português especializado em História Medieval. Condecorado pelo Presidente da Republica Dr. Jorge Sampaio, em 5 Out 1988, com a Grã-Cruz da Ordem da Liberdade.
1933 - Pete Wilson was born. Governor of California
1934 - Barbara Eden was born. American actress
1934 - Sonny Jurgensen was born. Professional football player
1935 - Jacques Charles Dufresnoy was born. French transsexueller "Coccinelle"
1936 - Henry Lee Lucas was born (d. 2001). Serial killer.
1937 - Albert Roussel dies (b. 1869). French composer.
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, Baltic states, Finland and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1940 - World War II: The Germans start bombing London.
1942 - World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad
1942 - Nasce, em São Paulo, Susana Vieira ( Sónia Vieira Gonçalves). Dançarina e actriz cinematográfica, de teatro e TV, destaca-se nas telenovelas da Rede Globo
1943 - Nelson DeMille was born. Novelist.
1943 - World War II: Kharkov liberated.
1944 - World War II: Marseilles liberated.
1944 - World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 - A US Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1947 - Carlos Mancheno Cajas assume a presidência do Equador ap´´os um golpe militar.
1947 - The Maynard Midgets beat Lock Haven 16-7 to win the first-ever Little League World Series championship.
1947 - Keith Moon was born (d. 1978). Singer and drummer (The Who).
1947 - David Robb was born. British actor
1948 - World Council of Churches is formed.
1949 - Shelley Long was born. Actress
1949 - Rick Springfield was born. Singer, actor.
1949 - Morre Domingo Díaz Arosamena, político panamenho.
1951 - Queen Noor of Jordan was born.
1951 - Akhmad Kadyrov was born (d. 2004). President of Chechnya.
1952 - Vicky Leandros was born. Singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner.
1952 - The Arab League goes into effect.
1956 - Andreas Floer was born (d. 1991). Mathematician, Floer Homology.
1958 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1960 - In Equatorial Guinea, the world's largest frog (3.3 kg) is caught.
1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II dies (b. 1895). American lyricist.
1960 - Foi constituida a "Federación de Mujeres Cubanas" (Cuba)
1962 - Walter Anderson dies (b. 1885). German folklorist.
1962 - Hoot Gibson dies (b. 1892). American actor.
1962 - First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite.
1962 - Nasce no Rio de Janeiro, Paula Toller Amora. Cantora vocalista e líder da banda "Kid Abelha e os Abóboras Selvagens" (1981).
1963 - Kenny Wallace was born. American race car driver.
1963 - Nasce, no Rio de Janeiro, Glória Maria Cláudia Pires de Moraes. Actriz cinematográfica (estréia em "Sombra de Suspeita", 1972), teatro e TV, destaca-se em telenovelas da Rede Globo; Melhor Actriz do Festival de Havana por "O Quatrilho" (1995).
1964 - Hiromi Kaneko was born. Japanese Fashion Designer
1965 - John Bata dies. Shoe manufacturer
1966 - Francis X. Bushman dies (b. 1883). American actor.
1966 - Rik Smits was born. Basketball player
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1968 - Morre Vicente Celestino (António Vicente Felipe Celestino) ( n. 12 Set 1894). Cantor romântico (estréia em 1914, na Companhia do Teatro São José) brasileiro.
1970 - Jay Mohr was born. Actor, comedian
1970 - River Phoenix was born (d. 1993).
1971 - Nascimento de Demetrio Albertini. Jogador italiano de futebol.
1972 - Dave Chappelle was born. Actor, comedian.
1973 - The Intelsat communication satellite is launched.
1973 - La ATP (asociación de tenistas profesionales) publica su primer ranking semanal de tensitas. El tenista rumano; Illie Nastase es el Nº 1.
1974 - Ray Park was born. British actor
1975 - Eliza Carthy was born. Singer and fiddler
1975 - Paul Hart was born. Guitarist
1975 - Successful Communist coup in Laos
1976 - A major earthquake in China kills thousands of people.
1978 - Kobe Bryant was born. Basketball player
1978 - Julian Casablancas was born. Musician
1979 - Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
1980 - Gerhard Hanappi dies (b. 1929). Austrian football player.
1982 - Stanford Moore dies (b. 1913). American biochemist. 1972 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (shared with William H. Stein ) "for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule".
1982 - Morre Edu da Gaita (Eduardo Nadruz) (n. 13 Out 1916). Músico (gaitas e harmónicas de boca) brasileiro.
1982 - Morte do cineasta brasileiro Alberto Cavalcanti
1982 - Lebanese falangist leader Bachir Gemayel is elected President (on 14 Sep is killed)
1982 - Um confronto entre Sendero Luminoso e a policia faz 22 mortos.
1985 - Hans Tiedge top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1987 - Heavy rains and floods in Bangladesh kill hundreds of victims.
1987 - Didier Pironi dies (b. 26 Mar 1952). French Formula 1 driver.
1988 - Morte do poeta brasileiro Paulo Menotti Del Picchia
1988 - Niki Leinso was born. Singer and songwriter.
1989 - Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic way).
1989 - Morre em Lisboa João Palma Ferreira (n. 1931). Ficcionista, crítico e historiador literário português
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.
1992 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida.
1995 - Muere la escritora y académica uruguaya de origen cubano María de Monserrat Albareda.
2000 - A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain killing 143
2000 - Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
2001 - Peter Maas dies. Novelist
2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm dies. Baseball Hall of Fame member.
2002 - Brasil ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto
2003 - Bobby Bonds dies (b. 1946). Baseball player and manager.
2003 - Jack Dyer dies. Australian rules football legend
2003 - John Geoghan dies. Defrocked pedophile priest
Romania: Liberation Day (1944)
Swaziland: Umhlanga Day
Roman Empire: Vulcanalia
Astrology: First day of sun sign Virgo

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