August 23 Events in History

2010	Heavy winds knock down the Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam, breaking off approximately one meter above the ground
2010	2 tons of elephant ivory and five rhino horns are seized in Nairobi, Kenya, the items were disguised as avocados destined for Malaysia
1998	Minnesota LPGA Classic
1995	Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save
1995	Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
1993	Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
1993	Fred McGriff and David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back home runs twice in same game
1992	Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1992	Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
1990	Armenia declares independence
1990	East and West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
1990	U.S. begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
1989	Los Angeles Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey home run)
1989	Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
1988	Mike Tyson and Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
1987	15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
1987	Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1987	Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
1986	"Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 4 performances
1985	Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
1985	South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
1985	West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to East Germany
1985	Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1982	Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1982	Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
1982	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1981	Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1980	Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss)
1979	Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City
1979	Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
1978	Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
1977	1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
1977	Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in East Germany
1977	Yankees leap frog over Red Soxs game in 1st place to stay
1976	Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
1975	Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
1975	Communists take over Laos
1975	Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
1975	Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack
1975	Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
1975	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1974	John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York City
1974	Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan vs. England at The Cricket Oval
1973	Intelsat communications satellite launched
1972	Republican convention (Miami Beach, Florida) renominates Vice President Agnew but not unanimous - 1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley
1972	Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson)  to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers
1971	WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970	Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1970	Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
1969	Audrey McElmory (U.S.) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno,
1969	France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
1968	Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
1968	Yankees and Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
1966	Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
1964	Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
1964	St. Louis Cardinals are 11 games back in NL, and win World Series
1963	Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK
1963	Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
1963	U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962	1st Europe-U.S. live TV program (via Telstar)
1962	John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
1961	Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
1961	East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between  West and East Berlin
1961	U.S. lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
1960	World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
1959	Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
1958	China resumes fire on Quemoi and Matsoe
1958	Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
1957	U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955	Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open
1954	President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
1953	Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
1953	Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
1953	Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1953	KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953	Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3 ")
1953	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1952	Arab League security pact goes into effect
1952	Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out and is also ejected for arguing
1950	Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
1950	West Germany and Japan readmitted to International Amateur Athletic Federation
1948	Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
1948	World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1947	President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
1946	13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
1944	94.5 degrees F (34.7 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands and 101.5 degrees F (38.6 degrees C) in Warnsvelt
1944	Allied troops capture Marseilles, France
1944	General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris
1944	General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower
1944	King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies and dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
1944	Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1944	Sammellager Drancy freed
1944	U.S. 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine
1944	U.S. B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1943	Red army recaptures Charkow
1942	1st U.S. flights to land on Guadalcanal
1942	Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1942	British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
1942	Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for New York - Washington game, raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
1940	German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
1940	Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
1939	John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at  Bonneville Flats
1939	Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler and Stalin
1939	U.S.S.R. and Germany sign a non-agression pact
1939	Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
1938	England score 7-903 decl vs. Australia Hutton 364
1936	17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St. Louis Browns
1933	1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri in London
1931	45th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61)
1931	Count Gyula Karolyi becomes premier of Hungary
1931	Philadelphia A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
1930	44th U.S. Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
1929	Arabs attack Jews in Israel
1926	40th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)
1924	Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1920	M R Rinehart and A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in New York City
1919	"Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1917	Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks and 11 whites killed)
1916	Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
1915	Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
1914	German troops plunder Belgium
1914	Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten
1914	General von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
1914	Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1911	British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
1910	Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
1907	Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits New York Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
1906	Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Washington Senators
1906	Cuba's 1st president Tomas Estrada Palma asks for U.S. intervention
1904	Automobile tire chain patented
1903	6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
1898	18th U.S. Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61)
1889	1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in U.S. (SF)
1883	Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks and and passballs count as errors prior to 1888)
1879	Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
1873	Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens
1869	1st carload of freight (boots and shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
1866	Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
1864	Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
1862	Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments)
1850	1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1839	British capture Hong Kong from China
1838	Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1833	Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
1821	Mexico declares independence
1813	Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
1796	African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
1784	Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it
1711	Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St. Lawrence
1617	1st one-way streets open (London)
1614	University of Groningen opens
1582	French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders
1566	Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
1566	Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
1553	Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
1542	Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code
1441	Holland and Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty
1328	Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
1328	King Philip VI of France, crowned
1046	King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
476	Odoacer elected King of Byzantine
406	Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians