August 23
NATIONAL Ride the Wind Day
NATIONAL Sponge Cake Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1926 American film star Rudolph Valentino dies, causing world-wide hysteria and a number of suicides
1990 East and West Germany announce they will unite on October 3
1993 The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon
1996 Osama bin Laden issues a message entitled “A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places”
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