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406Aug 23At the Battle at Florence the Roman army under Stilicho beat the Barbarians under Radagaisus.
1305Aug 23Scottish patriot William Wallace was hanged, drawn, beheaded, and quartered in London.
1514Aug 23Selim I (the Grim), Ottoman Sultan, routed a Persian army in the Battle of Chaldiran.
1617Aug 23The 1st one-way streets opened in London.
1711Aug 23A British attempt to invade Canada by sea failed.
1775Aug 23Britain’s King George III refused the American colonies’ offer of peace and proclaimed the American colonies in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”
1813Aug 23At the Battle of Grossbeeren Prussians under Von Bulow repulsed the French.
1819Aug 23Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, died on his 34th birthday.
1839Aug 23British captured Hong Kong from China.
1850Aug 23The 1st national women’s rights convention convened in Worcester, Mass.
1858Aug 23“Ten Nights in a Bar-room,” a play about the tragic consequences of consuming alcohol, opened in New York.
1863Aug 23Union batteries ceased their first bombardment of Fort Sumter, leaving it a mass of rubble but still unconquered by the Northern besiegers.
1864Aug 23Union troops and fleet occupied Fort Morgan, Alabama.
1866Aug 23Treaty of Prague ended the Austro-Prussian war.
1872Aug 23The 1st Japanese commercial ship visited SF carrying tea.
1879Aug 23Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returned to Cairo.
1883Aug 23Jonathan Wainwright, U.S. general who fought against the Japanese on Corregidor in the Philippines and was forced to surrender, was born.
1889Aug 23The 1st ship-to-shore wireless message was received in US in SF.
1900Aug 23Booker T. Washington formed the National Negro Business League in Boston, Massachusetts.
1902Aug 23Fanny Farmer, among the first to emphasize the relationship of diet to health, opened her School of Cookery in Boston.
1915Aug 23Czar Nicolaas II took control of the Russian Army.
1920Aug 23M.R. Rinehart and A. Hopwood’s “Bat,” premiered in NYC.
1935Aug 23The US Banking Act of 1935 revised the operation of the Federal Reserve System.
1937Aug 23Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (68), French composer, died.
1940Aug 23German Luftwaffe began night bombing on London.
1942Aug 23The 1st US flights landed on Guadalcanal.
1944Aug 23General George Leclerc’s troops advanced towards Paris.
1952Aug 23Arab League security pact went into effect.
1958Aug 23China resumed fire on Quemoi and Matsu.
1960Aug 23World’s largest frog (3.3 kg) was caught in Equatorial Guinea.
1961Aug 23East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West and East Berlin.
1963Aug 23Beatles released “She Loves You” in UK.
1973Aug 23The Intelsat 4 F-7 communications satellite was launched at Cape Canaveral.
1975Aug 23In Laos Communists took over the administration of Vientiane city.
1979Aug 23Iranian troops entered Iraqi Kurdish territory.
1982Aug 23Lebanon’s parliament elected Christian militia leader Bashir Gemayel president. His inauguration was scheduled for 23 September. Gemayel was assassinated some three weeks later.
1988Aug 23Some striking workers in Poland ended a walkout that had begun a week earlier, but 125 miners barricaded themselves in an underground shaft, vowing to stay until they’d won their demands.
1990Aug 23Armenia declared independence.
1992Aug 23Hurricane Andrew slammed into the Bahamas with 120 mph winds.
1994Aug 23Republican senators threatened to thwart a $30 billion anti-crime bill unless Democrats accepted changes in the House-passed measure; President Clinton appealed for bipartisan cooperation.
1995Aug 23During a memorial service at Fort Myer, Virginia, President Clinton eulogized three US diplomats killed in a road accident near Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and vowed to carry on the struggle for peace in the Balkans.
1997Aug 23In his weekly radio address, President Clinton said he would ask Congress to renew his authority for speedy negotiation of trade agreements, saying the “fast track” approach would make U.S. companies more competitive worldwide.
1998Aug 23Retailers began marketing computers with the new 450 MHz Intel Pentium II.
1999Aug 23The Dow Jones industrial average soared 199.15 to a new record of 11,209.84.
2000Aug 23The Clinton administration released guidelines for federally funded scientists to conduct research on human embryonic stem cells.
2001Aug 23Modesto Democratic Rep. Gary Condit acknowledged on a TV interview with Connie Chung that he had made mistakes but that he had nothing to do with the disappearance of Chandra Levy.
2002Aug 23U.S. warplanes bombed an air defense site in northern Iraq after being targeted by an Iraqi missile guidance radar system.
2003Aug 23Former priest John Geoghan (67), a convicted child molester, died after being attacked by Joseph L. Druce (37), a fellow inmate, at the Souza-Baranowski state prison in Shirley, Mass. Druce was convicted of murder in 2006.
2004Aug 23President Bush criticized a commercial that had accused Democrat John Kerry of inflating his own Vietnam War record, more than a week after the ad stopped running, and said broadcast attacks by outside groups had no place in the race for the White House.
2005Aug 23President Bush said he understood the anguish of war protester Cindy Sheehan, but said fulfilling demands like hers for withdrawal from Iraq would weaken the US.
2006Aug 23In Alaska Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski finished last in a 3-day primary election. Sarah Palin, a former Wasilla mayor, won with over 50% of the vote.
2007Aug 23Ohio’s Gov. Ted Strickland said more than 1,000 people were flooded out of their homes after heavy rain that swamped communities across the Midwest sent Ohio’s rivers spilling over their banks.
2008Aug 23Democrats coalesced around Barack Obama’s selection of Delaware Senator Joe Biden (b.1942) as his running mate while Republicans quickly seized on the Delaware senator’s past criticism of the presidential candidate’s inexperience.
2009Aug 23NATO military commanders told US President Barack Obama’s envoy on that they needed more troops and other resources to beat back a resurgent Taliban, particularly in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.
2010Aug 23A US district court issued a preliminary injunction stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration’s new guidelines on the sensitive issue.
2011Aug 23In China at least 15 people were killed when a blaze ripped through a dormitory building belonging to a ceramics factory in the Shengfeng Ceramics Factory in Foshan city.
2012Aug 23Indian officials said heavy rains over the past two days have killed at least 27 people and left thousands homeless in western Rajasthan state.
2013Aug 23In Texas a jury of military officers convicted Major Nidal Hasan (42) for the deadly Nov 5, 2009, shooting rampage at Fort Hood. On Aug 28 Hasan was sentenced to death.
2014Aug 23In California an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 shook the northern SF Bay area early today. It was centered about 10 miles northwest of American Canyon, about six miles southwest of Napa.

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