French troops end an uprising of Flemish farmers in the Battle of Cassel.
Tag: 23 August
23 August 1973
In Stockholm, Sweden a bank robbery that went wrong results in a hostage crisis. The hostages begin to sympathize with their captors, leading to the…
23 August 1944
A US Army Air Forces B24 bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
23 August 1939
Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression treaty.