Daily Calendar for Sunday, August 23, 2026

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Alexander Wilson (ornithologist) – 1813
Oliver Perry (naval hero) – 1819
Rudolph Valentino (actor) – 1926
Oscar Hammerstein II (lyricist) – 1960
Hoyt Wilhelm (baseball player, first relief pitcher ever elected to the baseball hall of fame) – 2002
Marion Hargrove (G.I. whose account of Army basic training, See Here, Private Hargrove, became a best seller in 1942 and turned him into a World War II celebrity) – 2003
Bobby Bonds (baseball player) – 2003

In London, the first one-way street was established – 1617
Emmanuel Allen last enslaved person sold in Canada – 1797
Fannie Farmer opened a cooking school in Boston, MA – 1902
Marseilles liberated – 1944
Ranger I lunar probe launched – 1961
U.S. Lunar Orbiter 1 took famed photo of Earth from Moon’s orbit – 1966
Jenny Thompson swam 100-meter butterfly in 57.88 seconds – 1999
For the final episode of CBS’s first Survivor program, approximately 51 million people (41% of America’s viewing public) watched Richard Hatch win the $1 million prize – 2000
An 5.8-magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Virginia, caused buildings to be evacuated across Washington, D.C., and New York City. The quake was felt as far south as Chapel Hill, North Carolina. – 2011
Two-pound blue lobster caught off Pine Point in Scarborough, Maine – 2014

A major hurricane made landfall over Nags Head, North Carolina; tracked into Chesapeake Bay; and had wind gusts up to 88 mph in Norfolk, Virginia – 1933
Storm formed that later became Hurricane Katrina – 2005
Historic heatwave roasts the central United States, with high temperatures combining with high dewpoints to create Heat Indices as high as 134°F (Lawrenceville, Kansas: Aug. 20, Aug. 21). – 2023 , – 2023 , – 2023 , – 2023 , – 2023