23 August - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on August 23, the day number in a year is 235 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 236. August 23 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
August 23 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1305 | After a show trial, William Wallace, leader of theScottish resistance against England during the Wars of ScottishIndependence, was executed in London's Smithfield Market. |
| 1514 | Ottoman forces defeated the Safavids at the Battle ofChaldiran, gaining control of eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq. |
| 1572 | The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, a wave of Catholic mobviolence against the Huguenots, began, lasting for several months andresulting in an estimated tens of thousands deaths across France. |
| 1650 | General George Monck founded 'Monck's Regiment of Foot', the predecessor to the Coldstream Guards, in England's New Model Army,making the regiment the oldest one in the Regular Army in continuousactive service. |
| 1711 | Admiral Howenden Walker arrived in St. Lawrence. |
| 1762 | The famous French poet and litterateur André Schnee was born. |
| 1839 | As it prepared for war against China's Qing Dynasty, an ensuing conflict that became known as the First Opium War, Britain captured theport of Hong Kong. |
| 1850 | The first American National Women's Rights Conference was held in Worcester, Massachusetts. |
| 1853 | The first real international weather organization was established in Brussels Belgium. |
| 1866 | The Treaty of Prague ended the Ostro-Prussian War. |
| 1873 | The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened. |
| 1896 | Andrés Bonifacio and his Katipunan comrades in modern-day Quezon City rose up in revolt against Spanish rule, marking the beginning of the Philippine Revolution. |
| 1906 | Unable to stop the rebellion, Cuban President Tomas Estrada Palma requested intervention from the United States. |
| 1914 | In their first major action of the First World War, the British Expeditionary Force defeated German troops in Mons, Belgium. |
| 1927 | After a controversial trial, and despite world wide protests,Italian-born American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti wereexecuted via electrocution in Massachusetts for the charges of murderand theft. |
| 1929 | Palestine riots-Arabs began attacking Jews in Hebron in theBritish Mandate of Palestine, killing over sixty people in two days. |
| 1939 | Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to theMolotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a 10-year, mutual non-aggression treaty,which also included a secret protocol dividing Northern and EasternEurope into German and Soviet spheres of influence. |
| 1939 | Non-aggression pact was signed between the then Soviet Union and Germany. |
| 1942 | The most dreadful battle of the Stalingrad war took place between the Soviet Union and Germany. |
| 1943 | World War II-The decisive Soviet victory in the Battle ofKursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of thewar. |
| 1944 | King Michael dismissed the pro-Axis government of General IonAntonescu, putting Romania on the side of the Allies for the remainder of World War II. |
| 1944 | The famous Indian film heroine Saira Banu was born. |
| 1947 | Vallabhbhai Patel became the Deputy Prime Minister of India. |
| 1960 | The world's largest frog (3.3 kg) was caught. |
| 1966 | The Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from an orbit around the Moon. |
| 1976 | Thousands of people died due to earthquakes in China. |
| 1978 | In New Delhi, Indira Gandhi went to court facing fraud charges. Gandhi was warned by the judge to stay in the country and was released on $1,875 bail. The fraud was she and her accomplices deceiving businessmen to gain the use of free cars for the 1977 election. |
| 1989 | Vilnius, Lithuania experienced a crowd of about fifty thousand individuals on the 50th anniversary of their country being seized by Stalin and Hitler. Baltic residents asked for independence, and formed a human chain 370 miles long, consisted of 1.5 million people to demonstrate the injustices they suffered. |
| 1989 | Singing Revolution-Approximately two million people joinedhands to form an over 600 km (370 mi) long human chain across theEstonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet republics to demonstrate theirrespective desires for independence. |
| 1990 | The display of western captives on Tv by Saddam Hussein caused some concern all over the world, as he ruffled the hair of a British child and said that they are not hostages but peacemakers. |
| 1997 | US University of Mississippi Medical Center received turmeric patent four years ago. |
| 2000 | John Anthony Kaiser was a Roman Catholic clergyman) in the city of Morendt, Kenya. |
| 2004 | America's Justin Gatlin became the fastest runner on Earth by winning the 100-meter Ferrata race. |
| 2005 | Thun Peru Flight Pukalpa Peru had 204 crashes in which 41 people died. |
| 2006 | Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of 10 inVienna, escaped from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil after eight years incaptivity. |
| 2007 | The European Union removes a ban on the export of British livestock, meat and dairy products, which was enforced after a recent foot and mouth disease eruption in Surrey. |
| 2007 | The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich ofRussia, and his sister Anastasia were found near Yekaterinburg, Russia. |
| 2007 | 30 manuscripts of the Rigveda were included in the UNESCO World Memory Register-2007. |
| 2009 | A serious drought in northern China leaves 5 million people short of water and damages 8.7 million hectares of farmland. |
| 2010 | 2 tons of elephant ivory and five rhino horns concealed as avocados headed towards Malaysia are captured in Nairobi, Kenya. |
| 2010 | A former Philippine National Police officer hijacked a touristbus in Manila and held its occupants hostage for nearly 11 hours beforebeing killed by police. |
| 2011 | President Obama gives momentary relief to illegal immigrants: students, veterans, the elderly, crime victims and those with family, including same-sex partners, as part of immigration reform in the United States. |
| 2011 | Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered the origin of the Brahmaputra and Indus rivers and completed a comprehensive satellite study of the length of their route. |
| 2012 | The U.S. tests helium-filled surveillance balloons on the Mexican border. The two airships float about 800 meter high and are equipped with very advanced cameras. It is said that the balloons will not watch too far into Mexican territory. |
| 2013 | Real estate developers are blamed because of the damage they have caused to the UNESCO world heritage site of Cyrene, Libya. |
| 2013 | The attack on the mosque in Tripoli, Lebanon killed 50 people. |
Famous Birthdays of August 23:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1980 | Denny Bautista / Baseball Player / Dominican Republic |
| 1947 | Willy Russell / Composer / United Kingdom |
| 1990 | Seth Curry / Basketball Player / United States of America |
| 1933 | Pete Wilson / Politician / United States of America |
| 1912 | Igor Troubetzkoy / Aristocrat / Russia |
| 1940 | Richard Sanders / Actor / United States of America |
| 1884 | Ogden L. Mills / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 1972 | Martin Grainger / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 1903 | William Primrose / Educator / Scotland |
| 1949 | Shelley Long / Actress / United States of America |
| 1958 | Julio Franco / Baseball Player / Dominican Republic |
| 1900 | Malvina Reynolds / Writer / United States of America |
| 1929 | Vladimir Beekman / Poet / Estonia |
| 1988 | Carl Hagelin / Ice Hockey Player / Sweden |
| 1982 | Natalie Coughlin / Swimmer / United States of America |
| 1623 | Stanisław Lubieniecki / Astronomer / Poland |
| 1931 | Hamilton O. Smith / Academic / United States of America |
| 1524 | François Hotman / Lawyer / France |
| 1963 | Park Chan-wook / Director / South Korea |
| 1941 | Onora O'Neill / Politician / Britain |
| 1979 | Edgar Sosa / Boxer / Mexico |
| 1969 | Jeremy Schaap / Author / United States of America |
| 1948 | Rudy Ruettiger / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1989 | Asha Negi / Actress / India |
| 1910 | Giuseppe Meazza / Footballer / Italy |
| 1961 | Alexandre Desplat / Composer / France |
| 1983 | Tony Moll / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1986 | Brett Morris / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 1897 | Henry F. Pringle / Journalist / United States of America |
| 1852 | Arnold Toynbee / Historian / United Kingdom |
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Read in Hindi : 23 अगस्त की प्रमुख ऐतिहासिक घटनाएं