What are the important events that happened on August 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 23: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 23 is the 235th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 130 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 10, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,755,907,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatriacontapentagon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 178 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,628 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 23 Historical Events
- 79 –Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
- 1650 –Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck’s Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
- 1866 –Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
- 1904 –The automobile tire chain is patented.
- 1938 –English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
- 1946 –Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
- 1948 –World Council of Churches is formed.
- 1977 –The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
- 1990 –Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2000 –Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
Who were born on August 23?
- 1524 –François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
- 1922 –Jean Darling, American child actress
- 1926 –Gyula Hernádi, Hungarian writer and screenwriter (d. 2005)
- 1930 –Michel Rocard, French politician
- 1949 –Geoff Capes, English strongman
- 1951 –Allan Bristow, American basketball head coach
- 1969 –Keith Tyson, English artist
- 1974 –Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner
- 1979 –Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
- 1982 –YTCracker, American musician and computer hacker
Who died on August 23?
- 1305 –William Wallace, Scottish patriot (b. 1272)
- 1519 –Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (b. 1465)
- 1540 –Guillaume Budé, French scholar (b. 1467)
- 1628 –George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
- 1831 –Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author (b. 1759)
- 1962 –Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
- 1974 –Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
- 1977 –Naum Gabo, Russian artist (b. 1890)
- 1982 –Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- 1996 –Margaret Tucker Indigenous Australian activist and autobiographer (b. 1904)
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