Lianachan wrote:August 23rd, 1784 – Western North Carolina declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin, but it's not accepted into the United States and only lasts for four years.
August 23 is a comparatively busy day. Among other things,
William Wallace was slowly and cruelly tortured to death on that day in 1305
Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821
Augusto Pinochet took power in 1973
In 1989, there was a chain of humans formed in the Baltic Soviet Republics on the 50th anniversary of the Hitler-Stalin pact.
In 1990, the one and only freely elected People's Chamber of the GDR issued a law that the GDR would join the area of validity of the Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland on Oct. 3 of that year. It was the final last act that sealed German re-unification. I remember that moment. I was on nightshift, a temp job with the hospital where I had done my nursing internship required for the first medical exam. I was assigned to watch over a severly ill lady. The radio had been left on to calm her, and at 11 p.m. (and every hour after that), the hourly news had it as their first item.