On This Day August 23rd

  OTD

August 23rd is the two hundredth-thirty-fifth day of the year, and there are 131 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Event

 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.

1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield, London.

1600—Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, destroying Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's, stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.

1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.

1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter perform the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.

1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.

1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

1990 – West and East Germany announce reuniting on October 3.

1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.

2007 – The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia, are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.

 

Birthdays

1768 – Astley Cooper, British surgeon and anatomist (d. 1841)

1846 – Alexander Milne Calder, Scottish-American sculptor (d. 1923)

1884 – Will Cuppy, American author and critic (d. 1949)

1912 – Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1996)[17]

1913 – Bob Crosby, American swing singer and bandleader (d. 1993)

1933 – Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)

1946 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 1978)

1978 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player and businessman (d. 2020)

 

 

Holiday Spotlight

Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition

The day commemorates the Haitian people's fight for freedom from slavery. For over 400 years, millions of Africans endured the transatlantic slave trade. Haiti's history was marked by conflict from the arrival of the Spanish in the 15th century. The Haitian Revolution in the early 1790s led to Haiti's independence and the abolition of slavery on January 1, 1804. The UN observes a day of remembrance on August 23 to honor those who fought for their humanity and dignity.

 

Holidays And Observance.

Brothers Day  

Buttered Corn Day

Cuban Sandwich Day

Daffodil Day  

European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism

Hug Your Sweetheart Day

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition

Internaut Day

National Cheap Flight Day

National Ride the Wind Day

National Sponge Cake Day

Valentino Day