Today is Tuesday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2011. There are 130 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight:
On Aug. 23, 1775, Britain’s King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”
On this date:
In 1305, Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was executed by the English for treason.
In 1754, France’s King Louis XVI was born at Versailles.
In 1914, Japan declared war against Germany in World War I.
In 1926, silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in New York at age 31.
In 1944, Romanian prime minister Ion Antonescu was dismissed by King Michael, paving the way for Romania to abandon the Axis in favor of the Allies.
In 1973, a bank robbery-turned-hostage-taking began in Stockholm, Sweden; the four hostages ended up empathizing with their captors, a psychological condition now referred to as “Stockholm Syndrome.”
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