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Historical Events
on August 23rd
- Lead Story
- Fannie Farmer opens cooking school,1902
- American Revolution
- State of Franklin declares independence,1784
- Automotive
- Patent for tire chain issued,1904
- Civil War
- Rose Greenhow is arrested,1861
- Cold War
- Aleksandr Godunov defects to United States,1979
- Crime
- Austrian teen escapes after eight years in captivity,2006
- Disaster
- NYC reports first cases of West Nile virus,1999
- General Interest
- Valentino dies,1926
- Sacco and Vanzetti executed,1927
- Hollywood
- First Survivor finale airs,2000
- Literary
- Edgar Lee Masters, author of Spoon River Anthology, is born,1869
- Music
- Lou Reed plays his last show with the Velvet Underground,1970
- Old West
- Texas Rangers arrest John Wesley Hardin,1877
- Presidential
- Dolley Madison saves portrait from British,1814
- Sports
- Pete Rose gets booted from baseball,1989
- Vietnam War
- U.S. cargo ship strikes a mine near Saigon,1966
- Communist forces renew offensive,1968
- World War I
- Battle of Mons,1914
- World War II
- The Hitler-Stalin Pact,1939
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