1986 – Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million to settle a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.
0565 – St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness
1138 – English defeat the Scottish at Cowton Moor, Yorkshire. Banners of various saints carried into battle – led to the name Battle of the Standard
1454 – Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1485 – Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor’s forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle.
1567 – The “Council of Blood” was established by the Duke of Alba. This was the beginning of his reign of terror in the Netherlands.
1572 – Failed assassination on Gaspard de Coligny, a French nobleman and admiral, a Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion (killed 2 days later)
1614 – Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1642 – The English Civil War began when Charles I called Parliament and its soldiers traitors.
1762 – Ann Franklin became the editor of the Mercury of Newport in Rhode Island. She was the first female editor of an American newspaper.
1775 – The American colonies were proclaimed to be in a state of open rebellion by England’s King George III.
1779 – James Cook Lands on Possession Island, British explorer James Cook reached the island, which is off the northern coast of Queensland Australia, 2 years after he had set sail on the HMS Endeavour from Plymouth. James Cook named the area New South Wales and claimed it for the British Crown.
1788 – Sierra Leone settled by British as a haven for former slaves
1846 – The U.S. annexed New Mexico.
1849 – The first air raid in history; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice
1864 – First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field” signed by 12 nations
1906 – The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200.
1910 – Japan formally annexed Korea.
1922 – Irish Politician Michael Collins is Assassinated
1932 – The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) began its first TV broadcast in England.
1941 – Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during World War II.
1945 – Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1962 – France’s President Charles De Gaulle Survives an Assassination Attempt
1964 – Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer speaks at the US Democratic National Convention about her efforts to register to vote in Mississippi
1968 – Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.
1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the “Camden 28”.
1972 – Due to its racial policies, Rhodesia was asked to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games.
1973 – Henry Kissinger was named Secretary of State by U.S. President Nixon. Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year.
1986 – Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million to settle a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-08-23-mn-15774-story.html
1990 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed an order for calling reservists to aid in the build up of troops in the Persian Gulf.
1990 – The U.S. State Department announced that the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait would not be closed under President Saddam Hussein’s demand.
1990 – Angry smokers blocked a street in Moscow to protest the summer-long cigarette shortage.
1991 – It was announced by Yugoslavia that a truce ordered on August 7th with Croatia had collapsed.
1991 – Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned to Moscow after the collapse of the hard-liners’ coup. On the same day he purged the men that had tried to oust him.
1992 – In Rostock, Germany, neo-Nazi violence broke out against foreigners.
1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1996 – U.S. President Clinton signed legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients.
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building
2004 – In Oslo, Norway, a version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” and his work “Madonna” were stolen from the Munch Museum. This version of “The Scream,” one of four different versions, was a tempera painting on board.
2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
2012 – 48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma
2013 – 14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq
2017 – Missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA evidence
2019 – South Korea says it is leaving an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan in an escalation of the rift between the two countries
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
