Entertainment News: Today in History for weekday, Aug. 23, 2017


In 1305, Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was dead by nation for treason.

In 1775, Britain’s King King of Great Britain announced the yankee colonies to be during a state of “open and declared rebellion.”


In 1858, “Ten Nights during a Bar-room,” a play by Timothy carriage Arthur regarding the perils of alcohol, opened in big apple.

In 1913, Copenhagen’s very little imaginary being sculpture, impressed by the Hans Christian writer story, was undraped within the harbor of the Kobenhavn.

In 1914, Japan declared war against European nation in warfare I.

In 1926, silent movie star Rudolph Valentino died in big apple at age thirty one.

In 1927, amid worldwide protests, Italian-born anarchists anarchist and anarchist were dead in Hub of the Universe for the murders of 2 men throughout a 1920 theft.

In 1939, Third Reich and also the USSR united to a non-aggression accord, the Molotov-Ribbentrop accord, in Moscow.

In 1947, associate audience at the Hollywood Bowl detected President Harry S. Truman’s female offspring, Margaret, offer her 1st public concert as a singer (she had antecedently peformed on the radio).

In 1960, street writer lyricist II, 65, died in Doylestown, Pa.

In 1973, a bank robbery-turned-hostage-taking began in national capital, Sweden; the four hostages over up empathizing with their captors, a psychological condition currently remarked as “Stockholm Syndrome.”

In 1982, Lebanon’s parliament electoral Christian militia leader Bashir Gemayel president. (However, Gemayel was dead some 3 weeks later.)

Today’s birthdays: player Barbara Eden is eighty six. professional soccer Hall of Famer Rayfield Wright is seventy two. Queen Noor of Jordan is sixty six. Rock musician Dean DeLeo (Army of Anyone; Stone Temple Pilots) is fifty six. Actor Scott Caan is forty one. player Kimberly Matula is twenty nine.

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