History for August 23

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Louis XVI (France) 1754, Oliver Hazard Perry 1785, Gene Kelly 1912


Tex Williams 1917, Barbara Eden 1934 - Actress ("I Dream of Jeannie"), Richard Sanders 1940 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")


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

1947 - Margaret Truman, U.S. President Truman's daughter, gave her first public performance as a singer. The event was at the Hollywood Bowl and had an audience of 15,000.


1959 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Sally debuted as an infant.


1962 - The first live TV program was relayed between the U.S. and Europe through the U.S. Telstar satellite.


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."


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.