On This Day:
Saturday August 23, 2014 This is the 235th day of the year, with 130 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: ear The human ear is most sensitive to frequencies of 1000-4000 hertz, though young ears can hear 20-20,000 hertz.
Holidays Feast day of St. Rose of Lima, Saints Asterius and Claudius, St. Tydfil, St. Philip Benizi, and St. Eugene or Eoghan of Ardstraw.
Romania: National Day.
Events 1541 - Jacques Cartier landed near Quebec on his third voyage to North America.
1775 - King George III of England refused the American colonies' offer of peace and declared them in open rebellion.
1821 - After 11 years of war, Spain granted Mexican independence as a constitutional monarchy.
1902 - Fanny Farmer, among the first to emphasize the relationship of diet to health, opened her School of Cookery in Boston.
1914 - Japan declared war on Germany in World War I.
1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian-American anarchists, accused of robbery and murder on April 15, 1920 were sent to the electric chair.
1944 - Romanian prime minister Ion Antonescu was dismissed by King Michael, paving the way for Romania to abandon the Axis in favor of the Allies.
1950 - Up to 77,000 members of the U.S. Army Organized Reserve Corps were called involuntarily to active duty to fight the Korean War.
1979 - Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York.
1989 - Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old black teenager, was shot to death after he and his friends were confronted by white youths in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
2005 - TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41.
2005 - Israeli forces evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish settlements, completing a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.
Births 1754 - King Louis XVI of France.
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer.
1852 - Arnold Toynbee, English economist, social reformer.
1912 - Gene Kelly, American dancer, choreographer, actor.
1932 - Mark Russell, an American political satirist/comedian.
1943 - Nelson DeMille, American novelist.
1946 - Keith Moon, English singer and drummer for the rock band The Who.
1963 - Kenny Wallace, American race car driver.
1978 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player.
Deaths 1305 - Sir William Wallace, a Scottish knight who led his countrymen in resistance to English domination in the region, during periods of the Wars of Scottish Independence.
1926 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian-born American film actor.
1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist and collaborator with composer Richard Rogers.
1990 - David Rose, British-born American composer and orchestra leader.
1997 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
2006 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
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