What Happened – August 23

It was on this day in 1305 that William Wallace was dragged naked by a horse through London. He had been found guilty of treason against the King the day before and that was the beginning of his execution. What followed was him being hung from the neck, but not to the point of being strangled. The Scottish patriot was then castrated and disemboweled, with the body parts that were cut off being burnt in front of him. Death finally came via a beheading, and his body was then cut into four separate pieces.  His head was dipped in tar and put upon a pike on London Bridge, with his arms&legs being put on display in four different locations.

 

The first thing that Wiki takes note of happening on this day is “79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire” and the most recent is “2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who is abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.

 

A couple other events that also took place on this day are:

1939 – The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression treaty, is signed between Germany and the Soviet Union.
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1959 –  Fans of the comic strip Peanuts get their first glimpse of Charlie Brown’s little sister, Sally.

 

Happy birthday to Jay Mohr, Rick Springfield, Shelley Long, Richard Sanders and Barbara Eden.

 

 

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