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Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
The Mercury, Australia
Sunday Times, Australia
Aug 23 2004
On this day - 23aug04
1990 - Soviet Republic of Armenia declares independence
1305 - Scottish rebel leader William Wallace is hanged, drawn and
quartered for treason in London.
1514 - Selim I, Sultan of Turkey, defeats Shah Ismail of Persia at
Tchaldiran.
1628 - Duke of Buckingham, about to embark at Portsmouth, England,
with further expedition to La Rochelle, France, is assassinated by
John Felton.
1775 - England's King George II proclaims existence of open rebellion
in American colonies.
1813 - French are defeated by German army under Friedrich von Bulow,
preventing march on Berlin.
1839 - Hong Kong is taken by British in war with China.
1870 - Last British troops leave Australia.
1908 - Abdul Aziz of Morocco is defeated at Marrakesh by Mulai Hafid,
the new Sultan.
1913 - Copenhagen's famous landmark, The Little Mermaid, is unveiled
at the entrance of the harbour.
1914 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I.
1926 - Film idol Rudolph Valentino dies suddenly in a New York
hospital, aged 31.
1927 - Two Italian-born anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo
Vanzetti, are executed in Massachusetts despite worldwide protests
they are innocent.
1927 - Nahas Pasha becomes leader of the Wafd in Egypt.
1937 - Japanese military forces land at Shanghai, China.
1942 - Thirteen Japanese planes are shot down in the 24th raid on
Darwin in World War II.
1944 - Allied troops in France capture port of Marseilles in World
War II.
1944 - Romania joins the Allies and breaks its alliance with Hitler's
Germany. King Michael I declares war on Germany, and orders the
country's military pro-Nazi leader Marshal Ion Antonescu arrested.
1948 - The World Council of Churches is founded.
1952 - Arab League security pact goes into effect.
1958 - China begins bombardment of island of Quemoy.
1960 - Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II dies in Doylestown,
Pennsylvania.
1962 - US Telstar satellite relays first live television program
between United States and Europe.
1964 - Footbridge collapses over river gorge in Venezuela, and 29
people fall to their deaths in rapids below.
1973 - Four people are taken hostage by a robber in a Stockholm bank.
During the six-day drama the captor and captives develop a friendship
later described and studied as "the Stockholm syndrome".
1975 - Communists complete takeover of Laos.
1979 - Bolshoi Ballet star Alexander Godunov is granted political
asylum in the United States.
1982 - Lebanon's parliament elects Christian militia leader Bashir
Gemayel president; he was assassinated three weeks later.
1986 - Leaders of nine southern African nations, meeting in Angola,
express support for international economic sanctions against South
Africa.
1987 - Iraqi warplanes bomb key Iranian petrochemical complex of
Bandar Khomeini.
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appears on television with
British hostages held at "a vital Iraqi installation"; Soviet
Republic of Armenia declares independence; East and West Germany
announce they will unite on October 3.
1991 - Following failed coup by hard-liners in the Soviet Union,
Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin act to strip Communist Party of
its power and take control of army and KGB.
1992 - More than 500 survivors return to Singapore from the cruise
ship Royal Pacific, which sank after a collision with a fishing boat;
some 200 young right-wingers attack a hostel for foreign refugees in
Rostock, eastern Germany.
1993 - In Denmark, salvagers hoping for Nazi documents and treasure
hoist a German U-boat out of a muddy seabed where it sank in an
allied attack 48 years ago.
1994 - A wave of refugees fleeing Cuba on inner tubes, planks and
plastic foam blocks, head for the US naval base in Guantanamo.
1996 - The FBI confirms that microscopic traces of an explosive were
found on wreckage from TWA Flight 800, but says it still can't say
whether the plane was brought down by a bomb or missile.
1997 - Iran's new moderate president appoints a US-educated lecturer
as vice-president, the first woman to serve in a top government post
since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
1997 - Sir Eric Gairy, prime minister of Grenada from 1974-79, dies.
1998 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin replaces Prime Minister Sergei
Kiriyenko with former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.
1999 - Students opposing the strike at Mexico's main university try
to enter the campus and scuffle with striking students protesting a
tuition increase. The strike ends in February 2000.
1999 - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder starts work in Berlin, the first
time Germany had been governed from its traditional capital since
World War II.
2000 - A plane crashes into shallow Persian Gulf waters after
circling and trying to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people
aboard.
2000 - In a reality TV record an estimated 51 million US viewers tune
in for the finale of CBS's series Survivor, in which contestant
Richard Hatch wins the $US1 million ($A1.91 million) prize.
2001 - Democratic Rep Gary Condit of California denies any
involvement in the disappearance of intern Chandra Levy; Thierry
Devaux, a Frenchman using a motor-driven parachute, is arrested after
becoming snagged on the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
2002 - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe unexpectedly dissolves his
cabinet and ousts moderates in a move officials say is related to his
controversial program to seize land from white farmers and
redistribute it to landless blacks.
2003 - John Geoghan, a former Roman Catholic priest whose January
2002 sexual abuse conviction sparked a widespread abuse scandal in
the Catholic church, is beaten and strangled to death in prison.
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
The Mercury, Australia
Sunday Times, Australia
Aug 23 2004
On this day - 23aug04
1990 - Soviet Republic of Armenia declares independence
1305 - Scottish rebel leader William Wallace is hanged, drawn and
quartered for treason in London.
1514 - Selim I, Sultan of Turkey, defeats Shah Ismail of Persia at
Tchaldiran.
1628 - Duke of Buckingham, about to embark at Portsmouth, England,
with further expedition to La Rochelle, France, is assassinated by
John Felton.
1775 - England's King George II proclaims existence of open rebellion
in American colonies.
1813 - French are defeated by German army under Friedrich von Bulow,
preventing march on Berlin.
1839 - Hong Kong is taken by British in war with China.
1870 - Last British troops leave Australia.
1908 - Abdul Aziz of Morocco is defeated at Marrakesh by Mulai Hafid,
the new Sultan.
1913 - Copenhagen's famous landmark, The Little Mermaid, is unveiled
at the entrance of the harbour.
1914 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I.
1926 - Film idol Rudolph Valentino dies suddenly in a New York
hospital, aged 31.
1927 - Two Italian-born anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo
Vanzetti, are executed in Massachusetts despite worldwide protests
they are innocent.
1927 - Nahas Pasha becomes leader of the Wafd in Egypt.
1937 - Japanese military forces land at Shanghai, China.
1942 - Thirteen Japanese planes are shot down in the 24th raid on
Darwin in World War II.
1944 - Allied troops in France capture port of Marseilles in World
War II.
1944 - Romania joins the Allies and breaks its alliance with Hitler's
Germany. King Michael I declares war on Germany, and orders the
country's military pro-Nazi leader Marshal Ion Antonescu arrested.
1948 - The World Council of Churches is founded.
1952 - Arab League security pact goes into effect.
1958 - China begins bombardment of island of Quemoy.
1960 - Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II dies in Doylestown,
Pennsylvania.
1962 - US Telstar satellite relays first live television program
between United States and Europe.
1964 - Footbridge collapses over river gorge in Venezuela, and 29
people fall to their deaths in rapids below.
1973 - Four people are taken hostage by a robber in a Stockholm bank.
During the six-day drama the captor and captives develop a friendship
later described and studied as "the Stockholm syndrome".
1975 - Communists complete takeover of Laos.
1979 - Bolshoi Ballet star Alexander Godunov is granted political
asylum in the United States.
1982 - Lebanon's parliament elects Christian militia leader Bashir
Gemayel president; he was assassinated three weeks later.
1986 - Leaders of nine southern African nations, meeting in Angola,
express support for international economic sanctions against South
Africa.
1987 - Iraqi warplanes bomb key Iranian petrochemical complex of
Bandar Khomeini.
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appears on television with
British hostages held at "a vital Iraqi installation"; Soviet
Republic of Armenia declares independence; East and West Germany
announce they will unite on October 3.
1991 - Following failed coup by hard-liners in the Soviet Union,
Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin act to strip Communist Party of
its power and take control of army and KGB.
1992 - More than 500 survivors return to Singapore from the cruise
ship Royal Pacific, which sank after a collision with a fishing boat;
some 200 young right-wingers attack a hostel for foreign refugees in
Rostock, eastern Germany.
1993 - In Denmark, salvagers hoping for Nazi documents and treasure
hoist a German U-boat out of a muddy seabed where it sank in an
allied attack 48 years ago.
1994 - A wave of refugees fleeing Cuba on inner tubes, planks and
plastic foam blocks, head for the US naval base in Guantanamo.
1996 - The FBI confirms that microscopic traces of an explosive were
found on wreckage from TWA Flight 800, but says it still can't say
whether the plane was brought down by a bomb or missile.
1997 - Iran's new moderate president appoints a US-educated lecturer
as vice-president, the first woman to serve in a top government post
since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
1997 - Sir Eric Gairy, prime minister of Grenada from 1974-79, dies.
1998 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin replaces Prime Minister Sergei
Kiriyenko with former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.
1999 - Students opposing the strike at Mexico's main university try
to enter the campus and scuffle with striking students protesting a
tuition increase. The strike ends in February 2000.
1999 - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder starts work in Berlin, the first
time Germany had been governed from its traditional capital since
World War II.
2000 - A plane crashes into shallow Persian Gulf waters after
circling and trying to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people
aboard.
2000 - In a reality TV record an estimated 51 million US viewers tune
in for the finale of CBS's series Survivor, in which contestant
Richard Hatch wins the $US1 million ($A1.91 million) prize.
2001 - Democratic Rep Gary Condit of California denies any
involvement in the disappearance of intern Chandra Levy; Thierry
Devaux, a Frenchman using a motor-driven parachute, is arrested after
becoming snagged on the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
2002 - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe unexpectedly dissolves his
cabinet and ousts moderates in a move officials say is related to his
controversial program to seize land from white farmers and
redistribute it to landless blacks.
2003 - John Geoghan, a former Roman Catholic priest whose January
2002 sexual abuse conviction sparked a widespread abuse scandal in
the Catholic church, is beaten and strangled to death in prison.