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What happened in history on this day: August 23?
On August 23 in ...
- 1794 - The Bank of North America deposits more than $20,000 in silver at the Philadelphia Mint for coinage.
- 1864 - Fall of Fort Morgan at Mobile, Alabama.
- 1869 - First train carload of freight (boots and shoes) arrives in San Francisco, from Boston.
- 1872 - First Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco, California, carrying tea.
- 1889 - First ship-to-shore wireless message is received in the U.S., at San Francisco.
- 1900 - National Negro Business League organizes (Boston).
- 1917 - Race riot in Houston, Texas, USA; two blacks and 11 whites killed.
- 1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed in Massachusetts, USA.
- 1935 - The Banking Act of 1935 becomes law, removing the Treasury Secretary and the comptroller of currency from the Federal Reserve Board.
- 1961 - US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back.
- 1962 - The first live TV program is relayed between the U.S. and Europe through the U.S. Telstar satellite.
- 1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes first photograph of Earth from Moon.
- 1972 - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Florida) re-nominates Vice President Spiro Agnew but not unanimous - one vote given to NBC newsman David Brinkley.
- 1973 - Intelsat communications satellite launched.
- 1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City.
- 1989 - Yusef Hawkins is shot in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, sparking racial tensions between African Americans and Italian Americans.
- 1996 - Osama bin Laden allegedly writes "The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," his first open call for war.
Births on August 23
- 1883 - Birth of Art Van Harvey in Chicago, Illinois, USA; radio actor (Vic - Vic and Sade).
- 1912 - Birth of Gene Kelly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; dancer/actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way).
- 1913 - Birth of Bob Crosby in Spokane, Washington, USA; brother of Bing Crosby, orchestra leader (Bob Crosby Show).
- 1932 - Birth of Mark Russell in Buffalo, New York, USA; political satirist/pianist (Real People).
- 1934 - Birth of Barbara Eden in Tucson, Arizona, USA; actress (I Dream of Jeannie, Amazing Dobermans).
- 1940 - Birth of Richard Sanders in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Les - WKRP, Spencer, Berrengers).
- 1940 - Birth of Tony Bill in San Diego, California, USA; actor (Sam - "What Really Happened to the Class of '65").
- 1942 - Birth of Nancy Richey Gunther in San Antonio, Texas, USA; tennis player (US Doubles 1965, 1966).
- 1943 - Birth of Bobby Diamond in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Duncan Gillis - Dobie Gillis).
- 1944 - Birth of Antonia Novello; US Surgeon General.
- 1947 - Birth of Rex Allen Junior in Chicago, Illinois, USA; country singer (Nashville on the Road).
- 1949 - Birth of Shelley Long in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA; actress (Diane - Cheers, The Money Pit, Frasier).
- 1951 - Birth of Mark Hudson in Portland, Oregon, USA; comedian/actor/music producer (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show, Sara).
- 1967 - Birth of Nancy Jane Cox in Campbellsville, Kentucky, USA; Miss Kentucky-America-1991.
- 1970 - Birth of River Phoenix in Madras, Oregon, USA; actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me).
Deaths on August 23
- 1926 - Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaello Pietro Filiberto Guglieimi Di Valentina D'Antonguolla (Rudolph Valentino), silent movie idol, dies in New York, USA at age 31.
- 1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed in Massachusetts, USA.
- 1982 - Death of Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913).
- 2008 - Death of Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, Soviet KGB defector, at age 80 in the USA.
- 2008 - Death of Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915).
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