Today in History 23 August

AUGUST 23
235th day of the year, before the New Year there are 130 days (Numerological number 4)

THE SUN:
Sunrise: 6.17
Sunset:
Longitude of the day: 14.29

MOON:
Sunset:
Sunrise:
Phase of the Moon: Phase 2 of the Moon

TEMPERATURE RECORDS OF THE DAY (Moscow, Moscow region):
Minimum temperature: +3.6 (1977г.)
Maximum temperature: +34.2 (1972)

HEALTH:
Seasonal activity of organs: activity of the lungs (large intestine).

Saints:
(10) Martyrs of the Archdeacon Lawrence Sixtus Pope, Felixissimus and Agapitas deacons, Romanus. The Blessed Lawrence of Kaluga.
Blessed Lawrence Kaluga is considered a healer of eye diseases and blindness. On the icons it is depicted in a shirt and a sheepskin coat. But more often - with an ax in his hand - in memory of the miraculous disposal of Kaluzhans from the Crimean Tatars, who came to the city in 1512. The sudden appearance of the blessed Lavrenty with an ax in his hands encouraged the Kaluga army, and she turned the enemies into flight.

SIGNS:
Laurence. Laurence is watched at noon on the water: if quiet, do not worry, the boats calmly stand - autumn will be quiet, and winter without blizzards and evil snowstorms. If there is a strong heat or heavy rains, it will be so long - all autumn. Autumn and winter are good if the water is quiet and rain on Laurence.

NOMENCLATES:
Lavrenty, Roman

ZODIACAL HOROSCOPE:
Sun in the constellation of Leo. Sign of Fire. Under the patronage of the Sun. The character is imperious, the nature is rich. The lion is the central figure of the Zodiac. Dobr. Effects are alien to him. Temperamental and impulsive, capable of feat. Vanity. Infantilen. A faithful friend, but unstable. It's messy. Wasteful. Appreciable. Proud and does not compromise, does not forgive treason. However, it rarely loses its natural gaiety.

MYTHOLOGICAL HOROSCOPE:
Griffin (August 11 - September 15) Gryphon - half lion, half eagle. He is a warlike, strong and ferocious creature. Therefore, people of this type have the same features. They are fanatical and ready to defend their convictions with active actions. In past centuries, people who belonged to this sign, participated in hunting for witches and other repressions.

HOROSCOPE OF THE DRUIDS:
The Druids begin the days dedicated to Kartas. Has good health, dynamic, confident. He is sensitive to jokes about his person and does not understand them very much. Likes to hit, to be the center of attention. Unintelligible, gets involved in unforeseen situations. Proud, ambitious and straightforward. Sensitive, receptive and sentimental. Intelligent. Under the sign of CARTAS, were born: Galileo, Darwin, Kosciusko, Goethe, Brecht.

GREEK HOROSCOPE:
The month of the supreme god Zeus - Zeus - the supreme god over all the gods, he threw his father Titan Kronos in Tartarus. Therefore, it is quite true that Zeus inspires not only respect, but awestruck horror. People born in the month of Zeus are noble, honest, imperious, have the power and power of persuasion. Zeus corresponds to the Roman god Jupiter.

HORIZOPE VIKINGOV:
Month of God Braga-This god actively patronized poetry. The Vikings believed that poems are a kind of magic, and those who know how to compose them are magicians, respectively. Therefore, people of such a warehouse are very persistent, they are able to overcome the most difficult life situations. The symbol of the god Braga is harp. The more beautiful - music, poetry - in your life, the more favorable to you God.

INDIAN HOROSCOPE:
MAGHA (from 17 to 30 August). Animal-symbol: the rat of Magha enjoys life and is always ready for sex. Their main task is to find a companion who understands how much power and power they need. Magha is very manly, and their strong sexual appetite is especially attractive for those in whom sensuality is not awakened.

HOLIDAYS:
The day of the defeat by the Soviet troops of the German fascist troops in the Battle of Kursk (1943).
In Hungary - the Day of Remembrance of the events of 1956.
Day of liberation from fascism (Romania).
Day of mourning tape (Lithuania).

DEVELOPMENTS:
In 406, the barbarian troops that moved to Rome were defeated by Florence.
In 476, the head of the barbarians Odoakr overthrew the Roman emperor Augustus, putting an end to the Roman Empire. Commander of German mercenaries in the Roman service ODOAKR (barbarian from the tribe of the Rugians) overthrew the Emperor ROMULA AUGUSTULA. The unfortunate emperor-teenager (even in history he was not like Romulus Augustus, but Romulus Augustus, ie Augustus or Augustus) was exiled to Naples, where he ended his days in the same year in the former estate of the famous Roman rich man LUKULL, famous Their feasts. Odoakr did not want to become emperor and sent signs of imperial dignity (crown and purple robe) to Constantinople to Emperor Zenon. At the behest of Odoacra the Roman Senate made the official decision that the Western Roman Empire no longer needed its emperor and let there be one emperor in Constantinople. On the territory of Italy, the first power of the barbarians, whose king Odoacre became, was founded, and this day is considered the date of the final fall of the Western Roman Empire. The ancient world collapsed, and the Middle Ages came. As we know, it was gloomy, and in 493, Odoakr was convinced of this first: his state was conquered by the Ostrogoths, and he was killed by order of the already Ostrogothic King Theodorich.
In 1149 on the river Trubezh near Pereyaslavl, the army of the Kiev prince Izyaslav was defeated by the army of Prince of Suzdal Yuri.
In 1244 the Turkish troops captured Jerusalem.
In 1268, the troops of the usurper of the throne of the kingdom of Naples, Carl of Anjou, defeated the army of the legitimate King Conradin, who was beheaded, in the battle of Talyacozzo.
In 1944, the American B-24 military aircraft fell to school in Freckelton, England. 76 dead.
In 1944, in Frackelton (England), an American military aircraft fell to school, which killed 76 people.
In 1945, Soviet troops took Port Arthur.
In 1947, the daughter of President Truman, Margaret, sang at her first public concert.
In 1948, Count Bernadotte requested assistance for Palestinian refugees.
In 1948, the World Council of Churches was established (147 churches in 44 countries).
In 1948, the World Council of Churches, an international community of Christian churches, was founded in Amsterdam.
In 1950, Jack Holden won the marathon (2:32:12).
In 1951, M Itzigsohn discovered the asteroid # 1684 Iguassu.
In 1953, Dutch aircraft DC-6 crashed near Ymuiden in the North Sea, 21 dead.
In 1953 the USSR conducted nuclear tests.
In 1953, the USSR refused reparations, which was to pay the GDR.
In 1954, Temporary resignation of the President of Brazil Getglio Vargas.
In 1955, the Cherepovets Metallurgical Combine was put into operation.
In 1955, the first flight of the first convertor with a rotary rotor - Bell XV-3. It had a large fuselage, designed for four passengers, fixed wings with a span of 9.54 meters and was equipped with a Pratt-Whitney R-985 engine with a capacity of 450 hp. The rotor-propeller at the end of the console of each wing was set to the desired position by electric motors; Upwards - for vertical flight, forward - for horizontal.
In 1955, the Goethe Link Observatory discovered an asteroid # 2974.
In 1955 Indiana University opened the asteroid # 5536.
In 1955 the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant was commissioned
In 1956, the Soviet Union announced that in the event of an attack by Western countries on Egypt, Soviet volunteers would be sent there.
In 1957, the province of Saskatchewan was the first to completely complete its part of the Trans-Canadian high-speed highway.
In 1957, the United States conducted nuclear tests in Nevada.
In 1958, Marie Ashton completed a 133-hour piano game, setting a record for women.
In 1959, the US government announced the introduction of 400 schools in the country as a subject of teaching the Russian language.
In 1328 the French troops suppressed the uprising of the Flemish peasants.
In 1382, during the defense of Moscow from the Tartar raid of Khan Tokhtamysh, artillery was used for the first time in Russia.
In 1514, at the Battle of Haldiran, the Turkish troops won a decisive victory over Iran, securing control over eastern Anatolia.
In 1541 the French seafarer J. Cartier landed near Québec in the course of his third trip to Canada in search of a place for permanent settlement.
In 1552, the army of the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible precipitated Kazan.
In 1553 Bishop Stephen Gardiner was appointed Lord Chancellor of England.
In 1617, the first unilateral street was opened in London.
In 1628 in Portsmouth the fanatic Felton killed the English Duke Buckingham, who was preparing an army for a campaign on La Rochelle.
In 1691, in Saskatchewan (Canada), the English explorer Henry Kelsey became the first European to participate in the Indian bison hunting.
In 1722 the arrival of Peter I with the land forces in Derbent.
In 1770, the English captain James Cook declared Australia the property of England.
In 1775, King George III of England rejected the offer to make peace with the American colonies.
In 1793, having received news of the execution of Louis XVI, the French garrison of the port of Pondicherry (India) surrendered to the British
In 1793, having received news of the execution of Louis XVI, the French garrison of the port of Pondicherry (India) surrendered to the British.
In 1793 the revolutionary government of France declared universal military service.
In 1798, in France, the leader of the "conspiracy of equals" Gracchus Babeuf was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison.
In 1799, Napoleon fled from Alexandria to France.
In 1799 in Petersburg it is forbidden to wear sideburns.
In 1813, the Prussian troops defeated the French at Gross-Beeren, than saved Berlin.
In 1818, on the Great Lakes (North America), the first route of steamers was opened.
In 1832, a detachment of General Velyaminov with 20 guns after the heroic resistance of the defenders took and destroyed the village of Germenchuk. AI Polezhaev took part in this battle, about which he wrote a poem "Germenchug cemetery".
In 1836 Punitive expedition of Colonel Pullo in auls on the river. Yaman-Su. Destruction of the village Zandak. Retreat of the Pullo detachment under the pressure of Tashav-haji to the fortress Suddenly.
In 1839, the British captured Hong Kong
In 1864, Allied troops and navy occupied Fort Morgan in Alabama.
In 1866, according to the Prague Treaty, Venice was transferred to Italy.
In 1872 C H F Peters discovered the asteroid # 124 Alkeste.
In 1877, in the battle with the Turks under Ayaslar, a Russian writer Vsevolod Garshin was wounded in the leg
In 1878, the first flight of the first balloon of the British army, filled with luminous gas, was called "Pioneer". It cost 71 pounds sterling and had a shell volume of 283.2 cubic meters.
In 1882, the capital of the Northwest Territories (Canada) became the city of Regina.
In 1884, the approval of a new university charter. The charter completely abolished university autonomy.
In 1889, the first radiogram from the vessel to the shore was obtained in San Francisco, USA.
In 1892, Max Wolf discovered the asteroid # 334 Chicago.
In 1896, several members of the St. Petersburg Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class were arrested (NK Krupskaya and others).
In 1900, the Negro National Business Union (National Negro Business) was organized in Boston
In 1901, L Carnera discovered the asteroid # 477 Italy.
In 1903, the Second Congress of the RSDLP was concluded in London. Inside the party, factions of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks appeared.
In 1903, the 6th Congress of the Zionists: Theodor Herzl declared the Jewish state.
In 1904, the patented automobile tire chain.
In 1905, the Portsmouth Peace Treaty with Japan. Russia recognized Korea as the sphere of influence of Japan, ceded Japan to Southern Sakhalin and transferred her rights to the Liaodong Peninsula with Port Arthur and Dalniy.
In 1906, the First President of Cuba, Tom s Estrada Palma, asks for US intervention.
In 1906, Nicholas II announced the sale of 20 million acres of land to Russian peasants.
In 1908, after the defeat of the rebels in the battle of Marrakech, the sultan of Morocco, Abd-el-Aziz IV, fled the country.
In 1911, Jewish pogroms took place in Wales.
In 1913, a monument to the Little Mermaid was opened in Copenhagen - the heroine of the fairy tale Hans Christian Andersen. The sculpture was presented to the city by the brewer Karl JAKOBSEN who in 1909, after visiting Hans BEKA's ballet The Little Mermaid, was so impressed by the performance, and especially by the performance of the prima donna Ellen PRICE, that he decided to erect a monument in honor of the heroine of the fairy tale. It was created by the sculptor Edward ERIXEN. The models were the ballerina (the head of the sculpture) and the wife of the master Elina.
In 1913, London police asked the authorities to impose speed limits for cars in urban areas.
In 1914, Japan declared war on Germany, attacking the German port of Qingdao in China.
In 1914, General von Hausen executed 612 inhabitants of Dinant in Belgium.
In 1915, Tsar Nicholas II assumed the command of the Russian army.
In 1916, the leader of the German left, Karl Liebknecht, was sentenced to four years in prison for anti-war propaganda.
In 1916, Russian troops defeated the Turkish army in a battle near Riyat (Persia).
In 1917 a number of Petrograd newspapers published statements by the gendarmerie colonel Balabin that one of the Bolshevik leaders Lev Kamenev cooperated with the secret police.
In 1917 in Petrograd began a lawsuit against the former Russian military minister, General Sukhomlinov, accused of high treason.
In 1917, the Racial Unrest in Houston, Texas. 2 blacks and 11 whites were killed.
In 1918, former Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Nikolai Maklakov shot the Chekists in Petrograd.
In 1919, in connection with the breakthrough in the rear of the Bolsheviks Denikin's cavalry, the Soviet government declared martial law in the country.
In 1920, the Revolutionary Military Council of Russia apologized to the Polish peace delegation for the order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front, which declared members of this delegation to be spies.
In 1921, on the Sakarya River, Turkish troops defeated the Greek army.
In 1922, several thousand unemployed took the Austrian parliament building by storm.
In 1924, according to Ilf and Petrov, the artisan artel "Pegasus and Parnassus" issued Ostap Bender a certificate of a wood burner
In 1927 Nicolas SACCO and Bartolomeo VANCETTI were executed in Massachusetts. Both Italians were immigrated back in 1908 to America by anarchists. They were charged with the murder of a cashier and guard of a shoe factory in April 1920. Arrested in May, they were found guilty after a year. All attempts to get the case reviewed did not lead to anything. Even the recognition in 1925 of one of the members of the gangster gang in committing this crime did not help. The death sentence was finally approved in April 1927 and, despite the wave of protests around the world, carried out. In the USSR the names of Sacco and Vanzetti were named pencil factory in Moscow.
In 1929 the Arabs attacked the Jews in Israel.
In 1934 the basic minesweeper T-401 "Tral" - the first mine-craft designed and built in the USSR, the head in a series of 40 units - was launched.
In 1936 K Reinmuth discovered asteroids # 1399 Teneriffa and # 1422 Stromgrenia.
In 1938, E Delporte discovered the asteroid # 1486 Marilyn.
In 1938, the head of the Moscow Regional Party Committee, N. Khrushchev, at the meeting of the committee declared the enemies of the people several local leaders.
In 1939, the Soviet-German non-aggression pact and secret protocols to it (the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact) were signed in Moscow. August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union and fascist Germany signed a non-aggression pact. This document, providing for the possibility of prolongation, obliged the signatories to refrain from aggressive actions against each other for a period of 10 years. The existence of a secret protocol for a long time was denied by the Soviet side, and it was only in the late 1980s that this fact was recognized and became the property of the world community.
In 1940, Queen Wilhelmina sacked Prime Minister De Geer.
In 1941, Germany issued an order on punitive operations against the population of the occupied lands of the USSR.
In 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill returned to London from Cairo.
In 1943, Kharkov was liberated from the German fascist invaders.
In 1944, the People's Armed Insurrection took place in Romania. Antifashis
В 1944 году Американский военный самолет B-24 упал на школу в Freckelton, Англия. 76 погибших.
В 1944 году в Фрекельтоне (Англия) американский военный самолет упал на школу, из-за чего погибло 76 человек.
В 1945 году советские войска взяли Порт-Артур.
В 1947 году Дочь президента Трумэна, Маргарет, пела на своем первом публичном концерте.
В 1948 году Граф Bernadotte запросил помощь для палестинских беженцев.
В 1948 году Создан Всемирный совет церквей (147 церквей 44 стран).
В 1948 году в Амстердаме основан Всемирный совет церквей - международное содружество христианских церквей.
В 1950 году Jack Holden выиграл марафон (2:32:12).
В 1951 году M Itzigsohn открыл астероид #1684 Iguassu.
In 1944, the American B-24 military aircraft fell to school in Freckelton, England. 76 dead.
In 1944, in Frackelton (England), an American military aircraft fell to school, which killed 76 people.
In 1945, Soviet troops took Port Arthur.
In 1947, the daughter of President Truman, Margaret, sang at her first public concert.
In 1948, Count Bernadotte requested assistance for Palestinian refugees.
In 1948, the World Council of Churches was established (147 churches in 44 countries).
In 1948, the World Council of Churches, an international community of Christian churches, was founded in Amsterdam.
In 1950, Jack Holden won the marathon (2:32:12).
In 1951, M Itzigsohn discovered the asteroid # 1684 Iguassu.
In 1953, Dutch aircraft DC-6 crashed near Ymuiden in the North Sea, 21 dead.
In 1953 the USSR conducted nuclear tests.
In 1953, the USSR refused reparations, which was to pay the GDR.
In 1954, Temporary resignation of the President of Brazil Getglio Vargas.
In 1955, the Cherepovets Metallurgical Combine was put into operation.
In 1955, the first flight of the first convertor with a rotary rotor - Bell XV-3. It had a large fuselage, designed for four passengers, fixed wings with a span of 9.54 meters and was equipped with a Pratt-Whitney R-985 engine with a capacity of 450 hp. The rotor-propeller at the end of the console of each wing was set to the desired position by electric motors; Upwards - for vertical flight, forward - for horizontal.
In 1955, the Goethe Link Observatory discovered an asteroid # 2974.
In 1955 Indiana University opened the asteroid # 5536.
In 1955 the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant was commissioned
In 1956, the Soviet Union announced that in the event of an attack by Western countries on Egypt, Soviet volunteers would be sent there.
In 1957, the province of Saskatchewan was the first to completely complete its part of the Trans-Canadian high-speed highway.
In 1957, the United States conducted nuclear tests in Nevada.
In 1958, Marie Ashton completed a 133-hour piano game, setting a record for women.
In 1959, the US government announced the introduction of 400 schools in the country as a subject of teaching the Russian language.