August 23 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for August 23
In the headlines today:

2000	A Gulf Air Airbus jetliner with 140 aboard crashes into the Persian Gulf near Bahrain shortly after takeoff, leaving no survivors.
1995	Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (Life magazine) dies at age 96.
1993	Actor Mel Gibson has his hand- and footprints placed in wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
1979	Soviet Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the U.S. during a performance in New York City.
1956	The first non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight begins.
1927	Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston for murdering two men during a 1920 robbery. (They were posthumously exhonerated in 1977.)
1926	Motion picture star Rudolph Valentino dies in NY at age 31.
1914	Japan declares war on Germany during WWI.
1902	Fanny Farmer opens her cooking school in Boston.
1818	The first steamship trip is taken on Lake Erie.