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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German tanks and soldiers in the Battle of Kursk
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition | refimprove |
| Day of the National Flag in Ukraine | refimprove section |
| 1521 – After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés captured Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. | refimprove |
| 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. | lots of inline tags |
| 1866 – Prussia defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War, and dissolved the German Confederation. | refimprove section |
| 1927 – After a controversial trial, and despite worldwide protests, Italian-born American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were executed by electric chair for murder. | CN tags, refimprove section |
| 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 |
| 1970 – The United Farm Workers, led by Cesar Chavez, began the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farmworker strike in U.S. history. | page numbers needed |
| 2007 – The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Anastasia were found near Yekaterinburg, Russia. | Alexei: refimprove section |
Eligible
- 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.
- 1914 – In their first major action of the First World War, the British Expeditionary Force engaged German troops in Mons, Belgium.
- 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.
- 1929 – Palestine riots: Arabs began attacking Jews in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, killing more than sixty people in two days.
- 1933 – The Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane made landfall in Outer Banks, North Carolina and went on to cause at least 47 deaths in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region.
- 1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a 10-year, mutual non-aggression treaty, which also secretly divided 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.
- 1989 – Singing Revolution: Approximately two million people joined hands (pictured) to form a human chain spanning 675.5 kilometres (419.7 mi) across the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet republics, to demonstrate their desire for independence.
- 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten in Vienna, escaped from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil after more than eight years in captivity.
- 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.
- Born/died this day: | Radagaisus |d|406| Abraham Yates Jr. |b|1724| John Sherman Cooper |b|1901| Marjorie Paxson |b|1923| Keith Moon |b|1946| Rex Grossman |b|1980| Denny Bautista |b|1980| Jeremy Lin |b|1988
Stained-glass depiction of William Wallace
- 1305 – William Wallace (depicted), a leader of Scottish resistance against England during the Wars of Scottish Independence, was hanged, drawn and quartered.
- 1873 – The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened.
- 1943 – Second World War: A decisive Soviet victory against German forces at the Battle of Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war.
- 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.
- Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1498)
- Abraham Yates Jr. (b. 1724)
- Oscar Hammerstein II (d. 1960)