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 235^th 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.

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.

August 23 Historical Events

• 406 –
  Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by the Roman army under Stilicho.
• 1305 –
  Sir William Wallace is executed for High Treason at Smithfield in London.
• 1650 –
  Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck’s Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
• 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.
• 1858 –
  The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
• 1866 –
  Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
• 1904 –
  The automobile tire chain is patented.
• 1944 –
  Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
• 1990 –
  Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• 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 –
  Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
• 1868 –
  Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950)
• 1877 –
  István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect and writer (d. 1959)
• 1884 –
  Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
• 1930 –
  Michel Rocard, French politician
• 1942 –
  Letta Mbulu, Southafrican singer.
• 1960 –
  Chris Potter, Canadian actor
• 1973 –
  Casey Blake, American baseball player
• 1980 –
  Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 –
  YTCracker, American musician and computer hacker

Who died on August 23?

• 1305 –
  William Wallace, Scottish patriot (b. 1272)
• 1628 –
  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
• 1652 –
  John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
• 1819 –
  Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
• 1867 –
  Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
• 1892 –
  Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
• 1927 –
  Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888)
• 1955 –
  Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
• 1982 –
  Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1995 –
  Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(b. 1964)