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Day Of The Week: August 23
August 23, 2025 is the 235th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 130 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Virgo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 23
- 1514 –Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
- 1784 –Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
- 1914 –World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
- 1921 –British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only 4 survive.
- 1942 –World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1944 –Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
- 1989 –Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
- 1990 –Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western “guests” (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
- 2006 –Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
- 2011 –A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Mineral, Virginia, the earthquake was felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia. Damaged occurred to monuments in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage was estimated at $100 Million.
Who were born on August 23?
- 1852 –Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
- 1883 –Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, American general (d. 1953)
- 1909 –Syd Buller, English cricketer (d. 1970)
- 1921 –Sam Cook, England cricketer (d. 1996)
- 1929 –Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (d. 1997)
- 1948 –Daniel Ruettiger, American motivational speaker
- 1949 –Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
- 1962 –Shaun Ryder, English musician
- 1974 –Mark Bellhorn, American baseball player
- 1987 –Nikki Gil, Filipina actress and host
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