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 236th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 130 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 10, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,724,371,200 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 ‘dihectatriacontahexagon’ day.
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 159 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 4,263 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 23 Historical Events
- 406 –Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by the Roman army under Stilicho.
- 1328 –Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
- 1799 –Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
- 1873 –Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opened.
- 1943 –World War II: Kharkov liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
- 1944 –World War II: Marseille liberated.
- 1946 –Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
- 1982 –Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
- 1990 –Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western “guests” (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
- 2011 –Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
Who were born on August 23?
- 1741 –Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
- 1852 –Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
- 1923 –Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
- 1929 –Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (d. 1997)
- 1934 –Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
- 1948 –Andrei Pleşu, Romanian writer, essayist
- 1956 –Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
- 1958 –Julio Franco, Dominican baseball player
- 1980 –Diamondog, Angolan rapper
- 2001 –Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor
Who died on August 23?
- 1519 –Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (b. 1465)
- 1652 –John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
- 1706 –Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
- 1838 –Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (b. 1790)
- 1858 –Antal Reguly, Hungarian linguist and ethnographer (b. 1819)
- 1960 –Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)
- 1995 –Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(b. 1964)
- 2001 –Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
- 2006 –Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
- 2007 –Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
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