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Events on August 23

• 1866 The Peace of Prague ends the German War between Prussia and Austria. Austria thereby accepts the dissolution of the German Confederation.
• 1887 Great Britain requires the country of origin to be indicated on all imported industrial products in future under the Merchandising Marks Act passed by Parliament; “Made in Germany” comes into being.
• 1910 The first official passenger voyage by an airship in Germany takes place.
• 1939 The signing of the Hitler–Stalin Pact.
• 1942 Units of the 6th Army reach the Volga. At the same time, the Battle of Stalingrad begins with a major air raid.
• 1946 The military government of the British occupation zone dissolves the Prussian provinces within its jurisdiction and establishes the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
• 1966 The first image of the Earth rising over the Moon is transmitted by radio from the lunar probe Lunar Orbiter 1 to the terrestrial ground station.
• 1973 The Kreditbanken, a bank on Norrmalmstorg in the center of the Swedish capital Stockholm, is robbed and four of the employees are taken hostage. The following events lead to the emergence of the term Stockholm syndrome.
• 1977 In the GDR, the dissident Rudolf Bahro is arrested. The Hamburg news magazine Der Spiegel published an excerpt from Bahro's regime-critical book Die Alternative the previous day.
• 1990 The GDR's Volkskammer in East Berlin decides by 294 votes to 62 (with seven abstentions) on the GDR's accession to the Federal Republic of Germany in accordance with Article 23 of the Basic Law for 3 October. In the dramatic night session, parliament endorses a motion by CDU/DA, SPD, FDP and DSU.
• 1999 Germany is once again governed from Berlin: Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder begins his work at the new parliamentary and government seat (until the new Federal Chancellery in the former State Council building of the GDR is completed).
• 2006 The 18-year-old Natascha Kampusch escapes her kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil in Lower Austria after eight and a half years of captivity.

Born on August 23

• 1900 Ernst Krenek, Austrian composer
• 1900 Eduard Rhein, German inventor, publicist and writer
• 1910 Giuseppe Meazza, Italian football player and coach
• 1922 Inge Deutschkron, Israeli journalist and author, Holocaust survivor
• 1931 Barbara Eden, American actress
• 1941 Lotti Krekel, German actress and singer
• 1961 Alexandre Desplat, French composer
• 1970 River Phoenix, American actor and musician
• 1971 Thomas Wagner, German sports presenter
• 1992 Tina Rupprecht, German female boxer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „23. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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