{"id":23044,"date":"2020-08-23T04:42:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T23:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23044"},"modified":"2020-08-21T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:20:32","slug":"history-of-23-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-23-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 23 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1990 &#8211; President Saddam Hussein\nappeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western detainees that he\nreferred to as &#8220;guests.&#8221; He told the group that they were being held\n&#8220;to prevent the scourge of war.&#8221;<\/li><li>1993 &#8211; It was confirmed by Los\nAngeles police that Michael Jackson was the subject of a criminal\ninvestigation.<\/li><li>1996 &#8211;&nbsp;U.S. President\nClinton&nbsp;imposed limits on peddling cigarettes to children.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; Protestors in Sudan carried a\nsign that bore the resemblance of Monica Lewinsky and the words &#8220;No War\nfor Monika.&#8221; The anti-U.S.&nbsp;demonstration was in Khartoum, Sudan.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; Boris Yeltsin dismissed the\nRussian government again.<\/li><li>1999 &#8211; Rescuers in Turkey found a\nyoung boy that had been buried in rubble from an earthquake for about a week.<\/li><li>1999 &#8211; Robert Bogucki was rescued\nafter getting lost in the Great Sandy Desert of Australia on July 11. During\nthe 43 day ordeal Bogucki lost 44 pounds.<\/li><li>2000 &#8211; Richard Hatch was revealed as\nthe winning castaway on CBS&#8217; &#8220;Survivor.&#8221; Hatch won $1,000,000 for his\nstay on the island of Pulau Tida in the South China Sea. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2006\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor\u00a0Wolfgang P\u0159iklopil, after eight years of captivity.<\/li><li>2007\u00a0\u2013 The skeletal remains of Russia&#8217;s last royal family members\u00a0Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister\u00a0Grand Duchess Anastasia\u00a0are discovered near\u00a0Yekaterinburg, Russia.<\/li><li>2011\u00a0\u2013 A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate)\u00a0earthquake\u00a0occurs in\u00a0Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200\u00a0million\u2013$300\u00a0million USD.<\/li><li>2011 \u2013 Libyan leader\u00a0Muammar Gaddafi\u00a0is overthrown after the\u00a0National Transitional Council\u00a0forces take control of\u00a0Bab al-Azizia\u00a0compound during the\u00a0Libyan Civil War.<\/li><li>2012\u00a0\u2013 A hot-air balloon\u00a0crashes\u00a0near the Slovenian capital of\u00a0Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.<\/li><li>2013\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0riot\u00a0at the\u00a0Palmasola\u00a0prison complex in\u00a0Santa Cruz, Bolivia\u00a0kills 31 people.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating Birthday Today <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Carlos Cu\u00e9llar, Spanish footballer<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Stephan Lobou\u00e9, Ivorian footballer<\/li><li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Scott Palguta, American soccer player<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Cristian Tudor, Romanian footballer (d. 2012)<\/li><li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0James Collins, Welsh footballer<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Athena Farrokhzad, Iranian-Swedish poet, playwright, and critic<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Sun Mingming, Chinese basketball player<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Tony Moll, American football player<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Fiona Onasanya, British Labour Party politician and criminal<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_23#cite_note-4\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Bruno Spengler, Canadian race car driver<\/li><li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Glen Johnson, English footballer<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Eric Tai, New Zealand rugby player and actor<\/li><li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Valeria Lukyanova, Moldovan-Ukrainian model and singer<\/li><li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Neil Cicierega, American comedian and musician<\/li><li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Brett Morris, Australian rugby league player<\/li><li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Josh Morris, Australian rugby league player<\/li><li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Jeremy Lin, American basketball player<\/li><li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Trixie Mattel, American drag queen, actor, and country singer<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_23#cite_note-5\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Heiko Schwarz, German footballer<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Lianne La Havas, British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist<\/li><li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Seth Curry, American basketball player<\/li><li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Mike Yastrzemski, American baseball player<\/li><li>1992\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nicola Docherty, Scottish footballer<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_23#cite_note-7\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1993\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Iv\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, Spanish professional footballer<\/li><li>1994\u00a0\u2013\u00a0August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress (d. 2017)<\/li><li>1997\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lil Yachty, American rapper and singer<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_23#cite_note-8\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1990 &#8211; 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