What happened on the day you were born?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

On the day I was born, the CN Tower was officially opened.
Woo, and indeed, hoo!

I found the info here.
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/today/0623.htm

[eyesroll]

1. Happy early birthday, SLB (if I'm not around tomorrow)

A little esoteric for me ---

1975 Govt De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador out of Spain

Cliff Burton died on my birthday in 1986, but that's not listed.

September is Bourbon Month and Hot Breakfast Month...hmmm...bourbon breakfast...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. Cheers.

[King Of Paperboys]

3. On the day that I was born,

The angels got together,
And decided to create a dream come true;
So they sprinkled stardust in my hair,
And golden sunlight in my eyes of blue.

(Da-da-dum... da-da-dum...)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. You were tripping at birth? Kewl!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Wow, I share birthdays with

the Dalai Lama and Sandra Berhard, among others!

And I've known for a long time that I was born on an anniversary of D-Day.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. I have the most boring freaking birthday.

I got stuck right after Jackie Kennedy and Mick Jagger's birthdays.

So I share a birthday with Norman Lear and Peggy Fleming. And nothing truly noteworthy really happened.

Unless you count Jani Lane of Warrant marrying Bobbi Brown on my 25th birthday. Or the Battle of Killicranchie. OR Titus van Wyck succeeding M de Savornin Lohman as governor of Surinam in 1891.

Woo. Hoo.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. I used to live near Killiecrankie. Bonnie Dundee took a bullet

straight through the breastplate. Ended the Jacobite rebellion of 1689, even though the Jacobites actually won. Bloody typical.

[fudge stripe cookays]

12. Um...okay. I feel better now? I guess? Maybe?

Okay. I'm puffing up with pride. I admit it.

:evilgrin:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Yes! Be proud of a failed rebellion in a far-away place led by a guy

called Bonnie!

[GOPFighter]

7. May 4, 1970

National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio

GOPFighter's mother tells college-age GOPFighter (who just returned from 4 years in the Air Force) that those students had it coming. When asked if her son, GOPFighter had been one of those shot would she feel differently. She said no. Nice birthday gift, hey?

[fudge stripe cookays]

9. Your mom and my mom should go bowling.

My mom was quite racist and nasty to people that didn't think like she did up until several years ago.

I'd like to think I had something to do with that.

Sorry about your birthday "gift."

[TN al]

10. JFK gave a speech at the NY economic club...

...and mariner 2 arrived at Venus. I remember reading about them both in the newspaper that night. Oh, you did mean on the actual B-day didn't you and not on the anniversay of your birth?

[pagerbear]

11. Oh, it's a hint about his birthday!

Not that I would ever announce so blatantly that

my birthday is December 8!

That would be bad form.

On edit: I share birthdays with Kim Basinger, Jim Morrison, and Sam Kinison!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. I was looking that stuff up because I was thinking about birthdays

but I'd never be (June 23rd) that (June 23rd) low.

[Bonhomme Richard]

13. Life Magazine cover........

[Bonhomme Richard]

28. My mother would have named me Pearl...............

if I was a girl. So she used to say. Thank God I wasn't born a girl. LOL

[name not needed]

14. October 16th

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/today/1016.htm

The year I was born:


1988 "Smile Jamaica" concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London
and Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & world series

[lpbk2713]

17. The WTC was bombed for the first time. Seven died.

Feb 26, 1993.

[Az]

18. The Edmond Fitzgerald sank.

Notables:
Billy the Kid got shot.

Sesame Street started broadcasting in 1969.

Stanely found Livignston.

Wikipedia list:
1674 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
1766 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy (the Marines were disbanded at end of war in April of 1783 but were reformed on July 11, 1798).
1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, and greets him saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1919 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).
1926 - In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boardinghouse landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan
1938 - On the eve of Armistice Day, Kate Smith sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time on her weekly radio show.
1942 - World War II: In violation of a 1940 armistice, Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ended with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.
1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter (then, the largest ship on the Great Lakes) SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975 - United Nations Resolution 3379: With a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991).
1989 - After 35 years of communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by hitherto Prime Minister Petre Mladenov who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
1995 - In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.
1997 - Telcoms WorldCom and MCI announce a US$37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history).
1997 - A jury in Fairfax, Virginia finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of the murder of two CIA employees in 1993.
2084 - A transit of Earth from Mars will be visible to hypothetical future Mars colonists.

Births
745 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)
1341 - Henry Percy Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
1483 - Martin Luther, a leader of the Protestant Reformation (d. 1546)
1566 or 1567 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English soldier (d. 1601)
1668 - François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)
1697 - William Hogarth, artist (d. 1764)
1728 - Oliver Goldsmith, playwright (d. 1774)
1759 - Friedrich von Schiller, writer (d. 1805)
1801 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
1845 - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada
1879 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (d. 1931)
1887 - Arnold Zweig, author (d. 1968)
1889 - Claude Rains, actor (d. 1967)
1890 - Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward, car manufacturer (d. 1963)
1890 - Eli Lissitsky, American painter (d. 1941)
1893 - John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
1909 - Pawe³ Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
1919 - Moise Tshombe, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1969)
1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor, AK-47
1925 - Richard Burton (actor) (d. 1984)
1928 - Ennio Morricone, composer
1932 - Roy Scheider, actor
1935 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, theoretical astrophisicist, cosmologist
1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch, musician, founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party
1940 - Russell Means, Native American activist
1942 - Hans-Rudolf Merz, elected member of the Swiss Federal Council
1944 - Sir Tim Rice, composer
1947 - David Loggins, musician
1948 - Greg Lake, musician
1949 - Ann Reinking, actress, dancer, choreographer
1956 - Sinbad, actor, comedian
1959 - Linda Cohn, sports anchor
1959 - Mackenzie Phillips, actress
1960 - Neil Gaiman, science fiction writer
1965 - Eddie Irvine, Formula One driver
1977 - Brittany Murphy, actress
1979 - Eve, singer
1985 - Giovonnie Samuels, television actress
Deaths
461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor
1241 - Pope Celestine IV
1549 - Pope Paul III
1865 - Henry Wirz, superintendent of Andersonville prison camp (executed)
1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of Turkey
1948 - Vincent Schiavelli, actor
1981 - Abel Gance, film writer, director, producer, actor
1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union
1992 - Chuck Connors, actor, baseball player
1994 - Carmen McRae, jazz singer
1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian playwright and environmental activist (executed)
1998 - Hal Newhouser, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1921)
2000 - Adamantios Androutsopoulos, former Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
2001 - Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2002 - Gert Westphal, actor, reader

Holidays and observances
Ancient Latvia - Martini

[Screaming Lord Byron]

19. Neil Gaiman and Screaming Lord Sutch? Cool!

[On the Road]

20. Many Exciting Headlines from the Archives of the Deccan Herald

from March 15, 1954:

Raising Surcharge On Power Consumption
BANGALORE, March 15
The Mysore Legislative Assembly today passed the Mysore Electricity (Taxation on Consumption) Amendment Bill, 1954, which seeks to increase the surcharge levied on industries and cinema houses for the consumption of electric power. Mr R Chennigaramiah, Deputy Speaker, was in the Chair...

Pak Budget Has Small Surplus
KARACHI, March 15
Pakistan Finance Minister Mohammed Ali announced a surplus of Rs 2.31 crores for the 1954-55 budget...

More Electricity For Agriculture Demanded
BANGALORE, March 15
A plea for more supply of electricity for agricultural purposes was made during question time in the Mysore Assembly today. Dr R Nagan Gowda, Minister for Agriculture stated that at the end of last year 5,339 irrigations pumps were working, and applications had been received for supply of electric power in several other places.

And this slightly more interesting landmark in US covert operations:

the National Security Council Direction 5412 of March 15, 1954, became the U.S. government's basic directive on covert activities. Further it stated emphatically that 'such operations shall not include armed conflict by recognized military forces.' (Note: it is this stipulation that prohibited the utilization of military "air cover" during the bay of Pigs operation in 1961.) the CIA became a member of the NSC 5412 Special Group, and responsibility for those covert operations that had been directed by the NSC was assigned to the CIA with the full support of the military departments, as requested, and with full reimbursement for all "out-of-pocket "expenses.

[sniffa]

21. Indonesia routes troops to Portuguese East Timor

eh.. not too good.

[SarahB]

22. On my birthday....

Calif Supreme Court strikes down it's death penalty

Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy

John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show

[Magrittes Pipe]

23. The sky turned black and the rivers ran with blood.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. Was there a cross-fire hurricane?

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. I howled at my ma in the driving rain.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

27. But it's all right now, right?

[Magrittes Pipe]

31. In fact, dude...

...it's a gas.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. What, like Xenon?

[Magrittes Pipe]

33. Methane.

Jumpin' Jack Ass, I have gas, gas, gas.

[MissMillie]

24. Well.... I learned that I share a birthday w/ none other than....

.... that's right you guessed it.....




FRANK STALLONE!

[King Of Paperboys]

36. WOW!

That's one of the Top Three Stallones!

[Bonhomme Richard]

37. Hah! I watched Frank Stallone box........................

years ago in a local PAL Boxing circuit. It was right after Rocky and I think the movie went to his head. He was actually a musician, not a boxer which was obvious. He got his ass kicked. I actually think it was the last time he boxed. You probably already know this trivia but the DooWap group singing on the corner in Rocky was Frank Stallone's band.

[sus]

29. wow. what an eventful day.

June 5, 1972 "If You Had Wings" opens
and UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm
and Yugoslav president Tito visits USSR

[afraid_of_the_dark]

30. I share my b-day with Bill Clinton and Tipper Gore.

Not a whole lot of interesting stuff otherwise.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

34. June 15th 1982

News of Argentine surrender of Port Stanley, Falkland Islands reaches the U.K.

[XNASA]

35. 'West Side Story' Opened on Broadway

[TheMightyFavog]

38. 17 January

Famous Births

1706 Benjamin Franklin
1732 Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last king of Poland
1880 Mack Sennett, creator of the Keystone Kops
1886 Glenn Luther Martin, aviator
1899 Al Capone
1922 Betty White
1925 Rock Hudson Winnetka Ill
1928 Vidal Sassoon
1931 James Earl Jones
1934 Shari Lewis
1938 Paul Revere (of Paul Revere and the Raiders)
1939 Maury Povich
1942 Muhammad Ali
1949 Andy Kaufman
1952 Larry Fortensky
1955 Steve Earle
1956 David Caruso
1962 Jim Carrey

Famous Deaths

1893 Rutherford B Hayes
1910 Thomas Crapper
1938 William H Pickering, astronomer
1980 Barbara Britton
1981 Bernard Lee (aka "M" to all you Bond fans)

Holidays

Poland Liberation Day

Historical events

1501 Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna
1536 Francois Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III
1562 Edict of St Germain recognizes Huguenots in France
1584 Bohemia adopts Gregorian calendar
1595 French king Henri IV declares war on Spain
1601 France gains Bresse, Bugey, Valromey & Gex in treaty with Spain
1656 Brandenburg & Sweden signs Treaty of Koenigsberg
1718 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switz; kills 53
1746 Battle of Falkirk, Scotland-Edward I defeats & massacres Scots
1773 Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66ø 33' S)
1775 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Pol
and R B Sheridan's "Rivals," premieres in London
1779 Capt Cooks last notation in ship's log Discovery
1821 Mexico permits Moses Austin & 300 US families to settle in Texas
1827 Duke van Wellington appointed British supreme commander
1832 John van de Bosch appointed gov-gen of Dutch-Indies
1852 British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
1862 -Jan 22nd) BBT Ft Henry, TN by USS Lexington
1863 Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia
1864 General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN
1871 1st cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873)
1874 Armed Democrats seize Texas govt ending Radical Reconstruction
1882 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office
1885 Brits beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan
1893 -17F (-27C), Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
and A Charlois discovers asteroid #354 Eleonora
and Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
1895 French president Casimir-Perier resigns
and Felix Faure installed as president of France
1899 US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
1901 M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #466 Tisiphone
1904 Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater
1905 Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer & C G Scannell, Chicago
1911 Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly
and Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow," premieres in NYC
1912 Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen
1913 Raymond Poincar‚ becomes president of France
1914 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Bogen des Odysseus," premieres in Berlin
1915 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's hospital in Amsterdam opens
and Russia occupies Boekovina & Western Ukraine
1916 Professional Golfer Assn (PGA) formed in NYC
1920 Paul Deschanel elected president of France
1923 Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied
and Origin of Brown lunation numbers
1924 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1013 Tombecka
1928 1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented
1929 Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"
1934 Electric Home & Farm Authority incorporated
1938 Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman
1943 Tin Can Drive Day
1944 Korvet Violet sinks U-641
and Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #3037
1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation
and Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work
and Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of
and thousands of Jews from Nazis, disappears in Hungary
1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
1947 Muiden Ammunition factory explodes, 16 die
1948 Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease fire
and Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in NYC
1950 11 men rob Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities
1951 China refuses ceases-fire in Korea
1954 Jacques Cousteau's 1st network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)
1955 Submarine Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage
1957 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
and Cavern Club opens (home of Beatles' 1st appearance)
1961 Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Lumumba
1962 A NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m
and Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres
1963 Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
and Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 67 points vs LA
1966 B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die
and Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago
and USAF B-52 carrying 4 unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast
1968 Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
1969 Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in UK
and Soyuz 5 lands
1970 John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass)
1971 Super Bowl V: Balt Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 in Miami
1973 Borough of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi
and New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life
1974 Styne, Comdem & Green's musical "Lorelei," premieres
1976 Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency
1977 7th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 24-14
and Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium
1979 Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against Rangers
and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran
and USSR performs underground nuclear test
1980 NASA launches Fltsatcom-3
1981 Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege
1983 Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians
1984 Supreme Court rules (5-4) private use of home VCRs to tape TV
programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws
1986 Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs to regain WBA heavyweight title
1987 Pres Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
1988 Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti
1989 Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach
and Gunman opens fire in Calif schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded
and Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
and Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami
1990 5th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame awards
and Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract
1991 1st US pilot shot down in Persian Gulf (Jeffrey Zahn)
and Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
and Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title
and Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs Iraq
1992 Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)
1993 Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45")
1994 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 56, $30B in damage
1995 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)

[MisterP]

39. I share birthdays (Sept. 14) with

1486 Agrippa von Nettesheim--German occultist/alchemist/royal astrologer (who, in the 19th century, was praised for rejecting occultism, but, in the 20th, when it turned out his "confession" was to avoid persecution and not honest, he was repeatedly mentioned as dying destitute and possibly insane, according to the script for those who dared embody the Renaissance instead of conforming to the Positivist myth)
1732 Franz Josef Haydn Austrian composer
1737 Johann Michael Haydn composer
1760 M Luigi CZS Cherubini Italian prodigy/composer
1819 Henry Jackson Hunt Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889
1835 J A de Smit-Rog oldest citizen of Netherlands (Died 1940)
1849 Ivan Pavlov Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904)
1867 Charles Dana Gibson illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl"
1879 Margaret Sanger feminist/nurse/birth control proponent
1886 Jan Garrique Masaryk Czech, statesman/minister to London (1918-35)
1887 Karl Taylor Compton physicist/atomic bomb scientist
1899 Hal Wallis movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park)
1913 Jacobo Arbenz president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA
1915 Douglas Kennedy NY, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold)
1921 Hughes Rudd TV newscaster (CBS/ABC)

Deaths:
407 Johannes Chrysostomus (or John Crystostom) patriarch
891 Stephen V (VI), Italian Pope (885-91)--the one who preceded Pope Formosus, whose propped-up corpse was put on trial by Stephen VI (VII)
1321 Dante Alighieri Italian poet (Divine Commedy), dies at 56
1523 Adrian VI , only Dutch Pope (1522-23), dies at 64
1637 Pierre Vernier (Peter Werner) French mathematician
1712 Jean (Giovanni) D Cassini Italian/French astronomer
1750 Carl T Pachelbel US organist/composer
1759 Louis Joseph Montcalm French general (Plains of Abraham)
1836 Aaron Burr 3rd VP
1852 Arthur Wellesley General/Duke of Wellington, dies at 83
1899 Henry Bliss 1st auto death (NYC)
1901 Pres William McKinley dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted
1911 Piotr Stolypin Russia's PM assassinated by Mordka Bogrov
1926 Johan LE Dreyer Danish astronomer (New gen catalog of nebulae)
1927 Isadora Duncan dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel
1937 Tom s G Masaryk philosopher/pres of Czech (1918-35), dies at 87
1982 Bashir Gemayel falangist Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb
Grace Kelly princess of Monaco, dies at 52 in a car crash

Historical Events:
1666 St Paul's in London destroyed by fire
1716 1st lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
1752 US & England adopts Gregorian calender (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow & fires start
1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner"
1847 US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
1882 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
1894 Hottentot uprising in Southwest-Africa fails
1914 German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn and German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches
1917 Kerenski regime declares Russian republic
1923 Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in NYC and Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
1940 Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law) and German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die
1956 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
1960 Coup under Col Joseph-Desir‚ Mobutu in Congo
1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
and Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout

[Redleg]

40. Here's my list from the same site...

Highlights in History Which Occur August 23:

406 Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians
476 Odoacer elected King of Byzantine
1046 King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
1328 Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
and King Philip VI of France, crowned
1441 Holland & Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty
1542 Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code
1553 Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
1566 Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
and Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
1582 French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders
1614 University of Groningen opens
1617 1st one-way streets forms (London)
1632 Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht
1711 Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence
1796 African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
1813 Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
1821 Mexico declares independence
1833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
1838 Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1839 British take Hong Kong
1862 Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments)
1864 Fall of Ft Morgan at Mobile AL
and Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
1866 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
1869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
1872 1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
and C H F Peters discovers asteroid #124 Alkeste
1873 Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens
1879 Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
1883 Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks &
& passballs count as errors prior to 1888)
1889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
1892 M Wolf discovers asteroid #334 Chicago
1898 Malcolm D Whitman wins US Lawn Tennis championship
1900 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
1901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #477 Italia
1903 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
1904 Automobile tire chain patented
1906 Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Wash Senators
and Cuba's 1st president Tom s Estrada Palma asks for US intervention
1907 Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
1911 British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British
strategy in case of war with Germany
1914 -24] German troops plunder Belgium
and Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten
and Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
and Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1915 Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
1916 Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
1917 Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1920 M R Rinehart & A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in NYC
1924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1925 Britain's Betty Nuthall wins US Lawn Tennis championship
1926 Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beat Elizabeth Ryan for US Tennis championship
1929 Arabs attack Jews in Israel
1931 Count Gyula K rolyi becomes premier of Hungary
and Phila A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
1933 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London
1936 17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1399 Teneriffa & #1422 Stromgrenia
1938 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1486 Marilyn
1939 John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats
and USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
1940 German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
and Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
1942 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
and Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
and British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
and German Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad, 1,000s killed
and German VIth Army reaches Stalingrad the Volga
1943 Red army recaptures Charkow
1944 94.5øF (34.7øC) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5øF (38.6øC) in Warnsvelt
and General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris
and General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower
and King Michael of Romania resigns
and Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
and Sammellager Drancy freed
and US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine
and US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1947 Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
1948 Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
and World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1950 Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
and West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
1951 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1684 Iguassu
1952 Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman
complete his at bat, he strikes out & is also ejected for arguing
1953 Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
and Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
and KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
and Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3«")
and USSR performs nuclear test
1954 President Get£lio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
1955 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2974
1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 China PR resumes fire on Quemoi & Matsoe
and Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
1960 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
1961 Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
and US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
1963 Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK
and Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NL, & win World Series
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
1968 Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
and Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
1969 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno,
and France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway
Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
1971 WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but
not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)
1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
1975 Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
and Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
and Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
and USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1976 Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
1977 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
and Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR
and N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2498 Tsesevich
and Yanks leap frog over Red Soxs « game in 1st place to stay
1978 Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
and Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
and UN's Vienna office opens
1981 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2852 & #3274
1982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
and Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 IRAS discovers asteroid #3728
1985 Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
and South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
and West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA
and who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1986 Vr˜komend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
1987 15-years old boy h˜acks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
and Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
1988 Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
1989 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
and Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
1990 Armenia declares independence
1993 NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
1995 Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save