This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history. History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. It is important to know dates and events in the past.

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August 23rd, 2007	Death	Robert Symonds, American actor (born in 1926)
August 23rd, 2006	Event	Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
August 23rd, 2006	Death	Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (born in 1928)
August 23rd, 2005	Event	TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41.
August 23rd, 2005	Death	Brock Peters, American actor (born in 1927)
August 23rd, 2005	Death	Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (born in 1973)
August 23rd, 2003	Death	Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (born in 1946)
August 23rd, 2003	Death	Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (born in 1913)
August 23rd, 2003	Death	John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (born in 1935)
August 23rd, 2002	Death	Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (born in 1922)

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