History for August 23

History for August 23 - On-This-Day.com:
Louis XVI (France) 1754, Oliver Hazard Perry 1785, Gene Kelly 1912 


Richard Sanders 1940 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati"), Keith Moon 1947 - Musician (The Who), Shelley Long 1949 - Actress ("Cheers") 


1902 - Fannie Merrit Farmer opened her cooking school, Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, in Boston, MA. 


1904 - Hard D. Weed patented the grip-tread tire chain for cars. 


1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty. 






1979 - Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York City. 


1982 - The parliament of Lebanon elected Bashir Bemayel president. He was assassinated three weeks later. 


1987 - Robert Jarvik and Marilyn Mach vos Savant were married. The event was called the "Union of Great Minds" since Savant had an IQ of 228 and Jarvik was the inventor of the artificial heart. 


1990 - President Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western detainees that he referred to as "guests." He told the group that they were being held "to prevent the scourge of war." 


1993 - It was confirmed by Los Angeles police that Michael Jackson was the subject of a criminal investigation. 


1996 - U.S. President Clinton imposed limits on peddling cigarettes to children. 


1998 - Protestors in Sudan carried a sign that bore the resemblance of Monica Lewinsky and the words "No War for Monika." The anti-U.S. demonstration was in Khartoum, Sudan.