About August 23
August 23, 2025 is the 235th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 130 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 178 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 23
- 1328 –Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
- 1595 –Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
- 1765 –Beginning of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
- 1775 –King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
- 1784 –Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
- 1799 –Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
- 1813 –At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
- 1839 –The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
- 1864 –The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
- 1914 –World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
- 1923 –Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
- 1939 –World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
- 1944 –World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies (see King Michael’s Coup)
- 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.
- 1989 –1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
- 1989 –Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
- 1990 –Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western “guests” (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
- 2007 –The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Anastasia are found near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
- 2010 –Manila hostage crisis, in which 8 hostages were killed
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