Historical Events In August - 23
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1926 Motion picture star Rudolph Valentino dies in New York at age 31 on August - 23.
1926 40th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97) on this day in history.
1926 Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in NY at 31 on August - 23.
1927 On this day in history anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston for murdering two men during a 1920 robbery. (They were posthumously exhonerated in 1977.)
1927 On August - 23 dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
1927 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass on August - 23.
1929 On this day in history arabs attack Jews in Israel
1929 On this day in history charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
1930 44th US Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64) on this day in history.
1931 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61) on August - 23.
1933 1st TV boxing match on August - 23.
1933 Adolph Loos, Austrian architect, dies at 62 on August - 23.
1936 17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns on this day in history.
1937 Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.
1938 On this day in history england score 7-903 decl v Australia Hutton 364
1939 On August - 23 soviet-German pact is signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop.
1939 USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact on August - 23.
1939 John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats on August - 23.
1939 Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48 on this day in history.
1940 German bombers begin night time attacks (The Blitz) on London on this day in history.
1940 German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London on August - 23.
1941 On this day in history jack O'Connor, cricketer (four Tests for Aust 1908-09, 13 wkts), dies
1942 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal on this day in history.
1943 On August - 23 red army recaptures Charkow
1943 On this day in history johann P Zilcher, German composer, dies at 88
1944 On August - 23 romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day 1944-1990)
1944 On August - 23 94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsvelt
1944 On this day in history nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer, dies at 63
1946 On August - 23 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
1947 On this day in history pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's first public singing concert
1947 The birth of Willy Russell, Playwright; 'Educating Rita' and Shirley Valentine' on this day in history.
1947 On August - 23 pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
1948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries on August - 23.
1948 Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine on this day in history.
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