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International Day For The Remembrance Of The Slave Trade And Its Abolition
1839, 23rd August: United Kingdom captured Hong Kong
1933, 23rd August: Mahatma Gandhi was released from Poona jail after his hunger strike (against the Government’s attitude to Untouchables) almost kills him
1966, 23rd August: Lunar Orbiter I took a photograph of the Earth from orbit around the moon
1991, 23rd August: The World Wide Web opened to the public
1995, 23rd August: Chief Minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu ushers in the cell phone revolution in India by making the first call to Union Telecom Minister Sukh Ram
2011, 23rd August: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown
On this Day Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on August 23
1754 Louis XVI, French monarch responsible for the revolution and the last king of France
1850 Radha Gobinda Kar, eminent physician, and philanthropist of Bengal
1944 Saira Banu, Indian actress
1947 Willey Russell, English playwright from Liverpool
1951 Queen Noor, Queen of Jordan
1973 Vani Kapoor, Indian actress, and model
On this Day Death Anniversaries of famous people on August 23
93 AD Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general, renowned for his conquest in Britain
1892 Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal, and politician, 1st President of Brazil
1926 Rudolf Valentino, screen actor, the idol of millions
1982 Stanford Moore, American biochemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1994 Arti Saha, first Indian female swimmer who swam across English Chanel
1997 – John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate