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Events on the 23rd of August in history

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23 Aug 0476 Odoacer elected King of Byzantine
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23 Aug 1046 King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
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23 Aug 1328 Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
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23 Aug 1328 King Philip VI of France, crowned
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23 Aug 1441 Holland and Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty
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23 Aug 1542 Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code
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23 Aug 1553 Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
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23 Aug 1566 Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
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23 Aug 1566 Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
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23 Aug 1582 French van Valois pays tribute to Earl of Flanders
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23 Aug 1614 University of Groningen opens
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23 Aug 1617 1st one-way streets open (London)
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23 Aug 1617 1st one-way streets established (London)
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23 Aug 1711 Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St. Lawrence
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23 Aug 1784 Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it
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23 Aug 1796 African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
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23 Aug 1813 Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
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23 Aug 1833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
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23 Aug 1838 Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Massachusetts) 1st graduating class
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23 Aug 1839 British capture Hong Kong from China
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23 Aug 1862 Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments)
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23 Aug 1864 Union troops / fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
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23 Aug 1864 Fall of Fort Morgan at Mobile
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23 Aug 1866 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
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23 Aug 1869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
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23 Aug 1872 1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
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23 Aug 1873 Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens
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23 Aug 1879 Governor-General Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
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23 Aug 1883 Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks & & passballs count as errors prior to 1888)
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23 Aug 1889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (San Francisco)
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23 Aug 1898 18th US Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61)
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23 Aug 1900 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
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23 Aug 1903 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
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23 Aug 1904 Automobile tire chain patented
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23 Aug 1906 Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Washingston Senators
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23 Aug 1907 Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits New York Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
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23 Aug 1910 Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
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23 Aug 1911 British Premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
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23 Aug 1914 Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten
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23 Aug 1914 Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
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23 Aug 1914 Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
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23 Aug 1915 Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
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23 Aug 1916 Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
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23 Aug 1917 Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
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23 Aug 1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
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23 Aug 1924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since the 10th century
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23 Aug 1926 40th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)
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23 Aug 1929 Arabs attack Jews in Israel
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23 Aug 1930 44th US Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
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23 Aug 1931 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61)
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23 Aug 1931 Philadelphia Athletics Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
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23 Aug 1933 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri in London
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23 Aug 1939 John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 mph (593.48 km/h) at Bonneville Flats
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23 Aug 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler and Stalin
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23 Aug 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral / Poland divided)
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23 Aug 1939 USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
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23 Aug 1940 German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
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23 Aug 1940 Queen Wilhelmina fires Premier De Geer
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23 Aug 1942 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
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23 Aug 1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
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23 Aug 1942 British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
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23 Aug 1942 Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY - Washington game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
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23 Aug 1943 Red army recaptures Charkow
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23 Aug 1944 Allied troops capture Marseilles France
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23 Aug 1944 General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris
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23 Aug 1944 General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley / Eisenhower
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23 Aug 1944 King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies and dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
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23 Aug 1944 Sammellager Drancy freed
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23 Aug 1944 US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau / Melun de Seine
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23 Aug 1944 US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
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23 Aug 1944 Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day 1944-1990)
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23 Aug 1946 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
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23 Aug 1947 Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
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23 Aug 1948 Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
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23 Aug 1948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
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23 Aug 1950 Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
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23 Aug 1950 West Germany and Japan readmitted to International Amateur Athletic Federation
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23 Aug 1952 Arab League security pact goes into effect
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23 Aug 1952 Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out and is also ejected for arguing
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23 Aug 1953 Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
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23 Aug 1953 Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
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23 Aug 1953 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
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23 Aug 1953 KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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23 Aug 1953 Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3
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23 Aug 1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open
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23 Aug 1958 China PR resumes fire on Quemoi and Matsoe
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23 Aug 1958 Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
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23 Aug 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
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23 Aug 1960 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
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23 Aug 1961 Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
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23 Aug 1961 East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West and East Berlin
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23 Aug 1961 US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
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23 Aug 1962 1st Europe-US live TV program (via Telstar)
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23 Aug 1962 John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
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23 Aug 1963 Beatles release "She Loves You" in the UK
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23 Aug 1963 Beatles release "She Loves You" in the UK
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23 Aug 1963 Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
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23 Aug 1964 Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
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23 Aug 1964 St. Louis Cardinals are 11 games back in NL, and win World Series
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23 Aug 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
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23 Aug 1968 Ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
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23 Aug 1968 Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
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23 Aug 1969 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno
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23 Aug 1969 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno, Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
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23 Aug 1970 Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
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23 Aug 1970 Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
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23 Aug 1971 WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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23 Aug 1972 Republican Convention (Miami Beach, Florida) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)
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23 Aug 1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
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23 Aug 1974 John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York City
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23 Aug 1975 Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
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23 Aug 1975 Communists take over Laos
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23 Aug 1975 Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
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23 Aug 1975 Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack
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23 Aug 1975 Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
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23 Aug 1976 Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
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23 Aug 1977 Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR
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23 Aug 1977 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
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23 Aug 1977 Yanks leap frog over Red Sox
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23 Aug 1978 Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
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23 Aug 1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City
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23 Aug 1979 Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
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23 Aug 1979 UN's Vienna office opens
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23 Aug 1982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as President
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23 Aug 1982 Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
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23 Aug 1985 South African attorney / UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
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23 Aug 1985 West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
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23 Aug 1985 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
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23 Aug 1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
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23 Aug 1986 "Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
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23 Aug 1986 Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
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23 Aug 1987 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
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23 Aug 1987 Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
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23 Aug 1987 Violent rainfall / floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
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23 Aug 1988 Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
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23 Aug 1989 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
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23 Aug 1989 Lewis / Everett / Burrell / Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
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23 Aug 1990 Armenia declares independence
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23 Aug 1990 East and West Germany announced that they would unite on October 3
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23 Aug 1990 US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
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23 Aug 1992 Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
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23 Aug 1992 Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
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23 Aug 1993 Fred McGriff and David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
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23 Aug 1993 New York Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
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23 Aug 1995 Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
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23 Aug 1998 Minnesota LPGA Classic
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