August 23rd (1921) was a Tuesday. It's the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 130 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 23rd August, 1921
» British R38 class airship e.g airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Kingston upon Hull or Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
Famous Birthdays on August 23 in 1921
» Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences named Nobel Prize laureate
» Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1996)
August 23rd Holidays in History
» Christian Feast Day:
» Éogan of Ardstraw
» Martin de Porres, Toribio de Mogrovejo, and Rosa of Lima (Episcopal Church (USA))
» Philip Benitius
» Saint Rose of Lima named Rose of Lima
» Tydfil
» August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism or Black Ribbon Day (European Union and other countries), and related observances:
» Day of the National Flag (Ukraine) called Flag Day (Ukraine)
» International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (International observance known as International)