August 23
1305 - Scottish leader and national hero William Wallace was executed in London for treason.
1775 - Britain's King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of "open and avowed rebellion."
1914 - Japan declared war on Germany during World War I.
1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery, despite worldwide protests. (On the 50th anniversary of their executions, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation that Sacco and Vanzetti had been unfairly tried and convicted.)
1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
1973 - A bank robbery-turned-hostage-taking began in Stockholm, Sweden; the four hostages ended up empathizing with their captors, a psychological condition now referred to as “Stockholm Syndrome.”
2000 - A Gulf Air Airbus crashed into the Persian Gulf near Bahrain, killing all 143 people aboard.
2003 - Former priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, died after another inmate attacked him in a Massachusetts prison.
2004 - President George W. Bush criticized a political commercial accusing Democratic nominee John Kerry of inflating his own Vietnam War record, and said broadcast attacks by outside groups had no place in the race for the White House.
2008 - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama introduced his choice of running mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, before a crowd outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois.
2011 - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered near Mineral, Virginia, the strongest on the East Coast since 1944, caused cracks in the Washington Monument and damaged Washington National Cathedral.
2013 - A military jury convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that claimed 13 lives; the Army psychiatrist was later sentenced to death. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier who’d massacred 16 Afghan civilians, was sentenced at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, to life in prison with no chance of parole.
2017 - A federal judge again blocked a set of voter ID requirements in Texas, rejecting a weakened version that had been backed by the Trump administration. (An appeals court later allowed the law to stay in effect; it allowed voters without any acceptable photo ID to cast a ballot as long as they sign an affidavit.)
2020 - A white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, seven times as officers tried to arrest Blake on an outstanding warrant; the shooting left Blake partially paralyzed and triggered several nights of violent protests. (Blake, who was shot as he was about to get into an SUV with a pocketknife that had fallen from his pants, later said he’d been prepared to surrender after putting the knife in the vehicle. Officer Rusten Sheskey was not charged.)
2021 - The U.S. military was able to increase its evacuation flights out of Afghanistan; some 17,000 people were flown to safety in more than 40 flights over a period of 36 hours.
2021 - The Pentagon announced that it would press ahead with plans to force members of the military to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Birthdays
27 - Chrissy Costanza (singer)
28 - Francesca Reale (actress)
32 - Seth Curry (basketball player)
34 - Jeremy Lin (basketball player)
34 - Kimberly Matula (actress)
39 - Annie Ilonzeh (actress)
41 - Jaime Lee Kirchner (actress)
42 - Joanne Froggatt (actress)
45 - Nicole Bobek (figure skater)
45 - Shelly Fairchild (singer)
46 - Scott Caan (actor)
48 - Tana Ramsay (author)
48 - Ray Park 9actor)
52 - Jay Mohr (actor/comedian)
66 - Skipp Sudduth (actor)
71 - Mark Hudson (actor)
71 - Queen Noor of Jordan
73 - Woody Paul (singer)
73 - Rick Springfield (actor/singer)
73 - Shelley Long (actress)
75 - Linda Thompson (singer)
75 - David Robb (actor)
75 - Rex Allen Jr. (singer)
82 - Richard Sanders (actor)
88 - Sonny Jurgensen (football player)
91 - Barbara Eden (actress)
92 - Vera Miles (actress)
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Today in Sports History - August 23
1947 - The Maynard Midgets defeat the Lock Haven All-Stars 16-7 in the first Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
1982 - Gaylord Perry (Seattle Mariners) was tossed out of a game for throwing an illegal spitball.
1985 - Paul Hornung is awarded $1.16 million by a Louisville court against the NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games.
1989 - Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, agreed to a lifetime ban from baseball after being accused of gambling on baseball.
2012 - Lance Armstrong chose not to pursue arbitration in the drug case brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, setting the stage for his Tour de France titles to be stripped and his name to be all but wiped from the record books of the sport he once ruled.
1305 - Scottish leader and national hero William Wallace was executed in London for treason.
1775 - Britain's King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of "open and avowed rebellion."
1914 - Japan declared war on Germany during World War I.
1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery, despite worldwide protests. (On the 50th anniversary of their executions, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation that Sacco and Vanzetti had been unfairly tried and convicted.)
1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
1973 - A bank robbery-turned-hostage-taking began in Stockholm, Sweden; the four hostages ended up empathizing with their captors, a psychological condition now referred to as “Stockholm Syndrome.”
2000 - A Gulf Air Airbus crashed into the Persian Gulf near Bahrain, killing all 143 people aboard.
2003 - Former priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, died after another inmate attacked him in a Massachusetts prison.
2004 - President George W. Bush criticized a political commercial accusing Democratic nominee John Kerry of inflating his own Vietnam War record, and said broadcast attacks by outside groups had no place in the race for the White House.
2008 - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama introduced his choice of running mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, before a crowd outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois.
2011 - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered near Mineral, Virginia, the strongest on the East Coast since 1944, caused cracks in the Washington Monument and damaged Washington National Cathedral.
2013 - A military jury convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that claimed 13 lives; the Army psychiatrist was later sentenced to death. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier who’d massacred 16 Afghan civilians, was sentenced at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, to life in prison with no chance of parole.
2017 - A federal judge again blocked a set of voter ID requirements in Texas, rejecting a weakened version that had been backed by the Trump administration. (An appeals court later allowed the law to stay in effect; it allowed voters without any acceptable photo ID to cast a ballot as long as they sign an affidavit.)
2020 - A white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, seven times as officers tried to arrest Blake on an outstanding warrant; the shooting left Blake partially paralyzed and triggered several nights of violent protests. (Blake, who was shot as he was about to get into an SUV with a pocketknife that had fallen from his pants, later said he’d been prepared to surrender after putting the knife in the vehicle. Officer Rusten Sheskey was not charged.)
2021 - The U.S. military was able to increase its evacuation flights out of Afghanistan; some 17,000 people were flown to safety in more than 40 flights over a period of 36 hours.
2021 - The Pentagon announced that it would press ahead with plans to force members of the military to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Birthdays
27 - Chrissy Costanza (singer)
28 - Francesca Reale (actress)
32 - Seth Curry (basketball player)
34 - Jeremy Lin (basketball player)
34 - Kimberly Matula (actress)
39 - Annie Ilonzeh (actress)
41 - Jaime Lee Kirchner (actress)
42 - Joanne Froggatt (actress)
45 - Nicole Bobek (figure skater)
45 - Shelly Fairchild (singer)
46 - Scott Caan (actor)
48 - Tana Ramsay (author)
48 - Ray Park 9actor)
52 - Jay Mohr (actor/comedian)
66 - Skipp Sudduth (actor)
71 - Mark Hudson (actor)
71 - Queen Noor of Jordan
73 - Woody Paul (singer)
73 - Rick Springfield (actor/singer)
73 - Shelley Long (actress)
75 - Linda Thompson (singer)
75 - David Robb (actor)
75 - Rex Allen Jr. (singer)
82 - Richard Sanders (actor)
88 - Sonny Jurgensen (football player)
91 - Barbara Eden (actress)
92 - Vera Miles (actress)
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Today in Sports History - August 23
1947 - The Maynard Midgets defeat the Lock Haven All-Stars 16-7 in the first Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
1982 - Gaylord Perry (Seattle Mariners) was tossed out of a game for throwing an illegal spitball.
1985 - Paul Hornung is awarded $1.16 million by a Louisville court against the NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games.
1989 - Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, agreed to a lifetime ban from baseball after being accused of gambling on baseball.
2012 - Lance Armstrong chose not to pursue arbitration in the drug case brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, setting the stage for his Tour de France titles to be stripped and his name to be all but wiped from the record books of the sport he once ruled.
