This Day in History Aug. 23

Posted by blue water massey on August 22, 2015 at 22:17:50 from (198.254.227.107):

Aug. 23

1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada

1775 – King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.

1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong

1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama

1898 – The first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London

1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented

1914 – Battle of Mons: The British Army begins withdrawal

1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes

1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling

1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty

1942 – Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.

1943 – Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.

1944 – Marseille is liberated by the Allies.

1944 – King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu

1944 – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton England

1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft

1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon

1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins

1977 – The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight

1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany

1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union

1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3

1991 – Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW, World Wide Web to new users

1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans.

2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain

2007 – The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.

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