Today In History - August 23

1617 The first one-way streets established in London
1819 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on his 34th birthday
1833 Britain abolishes slavery in the colonies and 700,000 slaves are freed
1838 Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary's first graduating class
1864 The Fall of Fort Morgan at Mobile
1866 The Treaty of Prague ends the Austro-Prussian war
1869 The first carload of freight arrives in SF from Boston
1872 The first Japanese commercial ship visits SF - carrying tea
1889 The first ship-to-shore wireless message is received in the US
1900 National Negro Business League organizes in Boston
1904 Automobile tire chain is patented
1914 Japan declares war on Germany
1917 Race riot in Houston Texas: 2 blacks and 11 whites killed
1919 The "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune
1924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since the 10th century
1939 The USSR and Germany sign a non-aggression pact
1944 Romania is liberated from Nazi occupation
1947 President Truman's daughter first public singing concert
1948 The World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1950 West Germany and Japan are readmitted to the International Amateur Athletic Federation
1960 World's largest frog (7.27 pounds • 3.3 kilograms) is caught in Equatorial Guinea
1960 Oscar Hammerstein II dies at the age of 65
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from the Moon
1968 Ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement
1973 The Intelsat communications satellite launched
1977 The first man-powered flight of a mile: by Bryan Allen in the "Gossamer Condor"
1979 The Bolshoi Ballet dancer, Alexander Godunov defects in New York City
1979 The UN Vienna office opens
1988 Mike Tyson brawls with Mitch Green in Harlem

1486 Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein
1727 Friedrich Hartmann Graf
1740 Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia
1751 Louis-Francois Beffara
1754 Louis XVI
1769 Georges Cuvier
1773 Jakob F. Fries
1809 Juliusz Slowacki
1818 Rufus Ingalls
1829 Moritz B. Cantor
1832 Alexander Chambers
1851 A. Jirasek
1854 Moritz Moszkowski
1864 Eleftherios K. Venizalos
1867 Marcel Schwob
1869 James "Sunny Jim" Rolph
1879 Alfreds Kalnins
1881 Louis Schelfhout
1885 Henry Thomas Tizard
1886 Gottfried Rudinger
1887 Jo Sternheim
1889 A. Lichtenstein
1893 Roy Agnew
1894 Gareth Hughes
1900 Ernst Krenek
1901 Cecil Rolph Hewitt
1901 John Sherman Cooper
1903 Mauritius van Haegendoren
1903 William Primrose
1905 Leonard Constant Lambert
1908 Arthur Adamov
1908 Ben Barnett
1908 Cornelis van Dis
1911 Albert Alberts
1911 Birger Ruud
1911 Carl Dolmetsch
1911 Elizabeth "Betty" Robinson
1912 Gene Kelly
1912 Jara Ribnikar
1912 Lord Kissin
1913 Bob Crosby
1916 Mary Ward
1919 James Quinn
1919 Robert Crichton-Brown
1920 Aart Verstegen
1921 Sam Cook
1922 Brian Young
1922 Jack Boddy
1923 Humphrey Fisher
1923 Kenneth Rickards
1923 Richard Adler
1923 Wolfgang Sawallisch
1924 Denis Sargan
1924 Edvard Fliflet Braein
1924 Ephraim Kishon
1924 Siti Hartinah Suharto
1925 Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze
1925 Wlodzimierz Kotonski
1927 Dick Bruna
1927 Houari Boumedienne
1927 John Hoskyns
1927 Martial Solal
1928 Gerd Natschinski
1929 Peter Thompson
1930 Andy Ireland
1930 Jack Bannister
1930 John Fairclough
1930 Michel Rocard
1930 Vera Miles
1931 Richard Vincent
1932 Mark Russell
1933 Manfred Donike
1933 Pete Wilson
1934 Barbara Eden
1934 Christian "Sonny" Jurgensen
1934 Lojze Lebic
1934 Sonny Jurgensen
1935 Brendan Jackson
1935 Loren Rush
1935 Roy Strong
1936 Rudy Lewis
1938 Roger Greenaway
1938 Ronny Cox
1939 Charles Wardle
1940 Lee Majors
1940 Richard Sanders
1940 Tony Bill
1941 Gloria Ehret
1942 Nancy Richey Gunther
1942 Patricia McBride
1943 Bobby Diamond
1943 Dale Campbell-Savours
1943 Nelson DeMille
1943 Peter Lilley
1944 Antonia Novello
1944 Lena Tabori
1947 Keith Moon
1947 Rex Allen, Jr.
1947 Terje Rypdal
1947 Willy Russell
1948 Ernst Jansz
1948 Ron Blomberg
1949 Christopher Blake
1949 Geoff Capes
1949 John Bauldie
1949 Norah Ellen O'Neill
1949 Pieter J. Biesheuvel
1949 Rick Springfield
1949 Shelley Long
1949 Woody Paul
1951 Barbra Mizrahie
1951 Jimi Jamison
1951 Mark Hudson
1951 Queen Noor
1952 Dalton Reed
1952 Mac Cone
1953 Bobby Gubby
1953 Klaus-Dietrich Flade
1954 Cathy St. George
1956 David A Wolf
1960 Helen Rees
1961 Bobby Gubby
1961 Julio Franco
1962 Glenn Healy
1962 Kyle Clifton
1963 Blaine Schmidt
1963 Richard Illingworth
1964 Cam Emerson
1966 Laura Richmond
1966 Rhonda Cator
1967 Nancy Jane Cox
1968 Christian Dean DiMarco
1968 Cortez Kennedy
1968 Scott Kowalkowski
1969 Amanda Hope
1969 Clayton Holmes
1970 Andrew Henry
1970 Fabian Wilnis
1970 LaMark Carter
1970 River Phoenix
1971 Hugh Douglas
1972 Anthony Calvillo
1972 Sheldon Benoit
1972 Tony Carter
1973 James Roe
1973 Jason Clemett
1974 Paula Gaye Montgomery
1975 Joe Andruzzi
1976 Kate Sobrero
1976 Linette Smith
1977 Nicole Bobeck
1978 Kobe Bryant