Search examples: Microsoft | 2015 | 2014/10 | 4.12 | 04/20 | 05/26/1980 | Galileo Galilei

Anniversary on the 23rd of August 0617

Anniversary

Date	Type		Text
100 years anniversary
23 Aug 1925	birth		Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze: Composer	0
23 Aug 1925	birth		Wlodzimierz Kotonski: Composer	0
75 years anniversary
23 Aug 1950	event		Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)	0
23 Aug 1950	event		West Germany and Japan readmitted to International Amateur Athletic Federation	0
23 Aug 1950	event		West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation	0
50 years anniversary
23 Aug 1975	birth		Joe Andruzzi: NFL guard (Green Bay Packers - Super Bowl 31)	0
23 Aug 1975	death		Hank Patterson: Actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87	0
23 Aug 1975	event		Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway	0
23 Aug 1975	event		Communists take over Laos	0
23 Aug 1975	event		Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile	0
23 Aug 1975	event		Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack	0
23 Aug 1975	event		Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland	0
23 Aug 1975	music		Joy Division singer Ian Curtis married Deborah Woodruff, whom he met while still at school, when he was 19 and she was 18. They remained married until his death when he hanged himself in the kitchen of his house in Macclesfield, England at the age of 23.	0
23 Aug 1975	death		Hank Patterson actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87	0
20 years anniversary
23 Aug 2005	music		Les McKeown the lead singer of the Bay City Rollers appeared in court charged with drugs offences. McKeown, aged 49, was accused of conspiring with four other people, including the band's drummer Pat McGlynn, to supply cocaine. He was arrested in Dalston, east London, in June as part of a major police operation.	0

22nd August 0617 24th August 0617

Like us on

Onthisday

Follow us on

Tweets av @OnThisDayNet

Link to results

What happened on this day in history?

OnThisDay.net is your complete guide to find out what happened on this day in History. The front page on this site shows you a series of important happenings and you can browse them buy categories such as births, deaths, events, science, history, music, news and holidays. We have also added an anniversary tab displaying happenings deserving extra attention today. If you are missing an important happening we made it easy for you to add it to the list. Just click add event, fill out the form and your suggestion will be revised by one of our staff. Please feel free to vote on your favourite events. This will help us in our effort to display the most popular events first and make the site more interesting for the next visitor, as events with many votes eventually will be shown first.