What happend on 23rd August

22.08
24.08
2000

Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.

2000

A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143

1996

Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places'

1992

Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida.

1990

Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

1990

Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages to try to prevent the Gulf War).

1990

West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.

1989

Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic way).

1989

All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to sack them and sue them over a dispute.

1987

Heavy rains and floods in Bangladesh kill hundreds of victims.