Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 23
This is a list of selected August 23 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Eight-foot statue of Wallace by Alexander Carrick near the entrance of Edinburgh Castle -
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Aftermath of the 1929 Hebron massacre -
Albert Bridge in London at night -
Flag of Ukraine -
Part of the human chain forming the Baltic Way -
Cesar Chavez
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition | refimprove |
| Day of the National Flag in Ukraine | refimprove section |
| 1305 – After a show trial, William Wallace, leader of the Scottish resistance against England during the Wars of Scottish Independence, was executed in London's Smithfield Market. | refimprove section |
| 1572 – The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, a wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots, began, lasting for several months and resulting in an estimated tens of thousands deaths across France. | unreferenced section |
| 1784 – The western part of the U.S. state of North Carolina declared itself an independent state under the name of Franklin. | unreferenced section |
| 1866 – Prussia defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War, and dissolved the German Confederation. | refimprove section |
| 1873 – The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened. | outdated |
| 1948 – The World Council of Churches, a worldwide Christian ecumenical fellowship, was established. | primary sources |
| 1958 – The People's Liberation Army began an intense artillery bombardment of Quemoy, sparking the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. | needs more footnotes, neutrality issues |
| 1966 – NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from the distance of the Moon. | refimprove |
| 2007 – The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Anastasia were found near Yekaterinburg, Russia. | Alexei: refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1914 – In their first major action of the First World War, the British Expeditionary Force engaged German troops in Mons, Belgium.
- 1927 – After a controversial trial, and despite worldwide protests, Italian-born American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were executed via electrocution in Massachusetts for murder.
- 1929 – Palestine riots: Arabs began attacking Jews in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, killing over sixty people in two days.
- 1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a 10-year, mutual non-aggression treaty, which also included a secret protocol dividing Northern and Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.
- 1944 – King Michael dismissed the pro-Axis government of General Ion Antonescu, putting Romania on the side of the Allies for the remainder of World War II.
- 1970 – The United Farm Workers, led by Cesar Chavez, began the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farmworker strike in U.S. history.
- 1989 – Singing Revolution: Approximately two million people joined hands to form an over 600 km (370 mi) long human chain across the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet republics to demonstrate their respective desires for independence.
- 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of 10 in Vienna, escaped from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil after eight years in captivity.
- 2010 – A former Philippine National Police officer hijacked a tourist bus in Manila and held its occupants hostage for nearly 11 hours before being killed by police.
Oscar Hammerstein II (d. 1960)
August 23: Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism/Black Ribbon Day in Canada, parts of the European Union, Georgia, and the United States
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- 1514 – Ottoman forces defeated the Safavids at the Battle of Chaldiran, gaining control of eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq.
- 1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departed from London.
- 1921 – The Royal Navy's R-38, the world's largest airship at the time, was destroyed by a structural failure while in flight over Hull, killing 44 of the 49 crew aboard.
- 1943 – Second World War: The decisive Soviet victory in the Battle of Kursk (German tanks and soldiers pictured) gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war.
- 2011 – A 5.8 MW earthquake struck the Piedmont region of Virginia, and was felt by more people than any other quake in U.S. history.
Radagaisus (d. 406) · Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1498) · Keith Moon (b. 1946)