Today in History

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Births on August 23rd

1988 – Jeremy Lin
American basketball player

1978 – Kobe Bryant

1926 – Clifford Geertz

1912 – Gene Kelly

1864 – Eleftherios Venizelos

Deaths on August 23rd

2006 – Maynard Ferguson
Canadian trumpet player, bandleader

1926 – Rudolph Valentino

1819 – Oliver Hazard Perry

1305 – William Wallace

634 – Abu Bakr

 

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August 23rd

In 1969, Liverpool rock band Ibex played a gig at the Octagon Theatre in Lancashire, UK. On vocals was Freddie Bulsara (soon to be known as Freddie Mercury ), who had joined the band earlier that year
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1839 Britain captured Hong Kong as a base as it prepared for war with China. The ensuing 3 year conflict was later to be known as the First Opium War.