MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 2021

1838-Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class

1866-Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war

1904-Automobile tire chain patented

1914-Japan declares war on Germany in World War I

1944-Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day 1944-1990)

1961-U.S. lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back

1966-Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon

1968-Ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily

1979-Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC

1979-U.N.'s Vienna office opens

1985-Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin

1988-Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem

1989-LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings