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August 23rd, 2006	Event	Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
August 23rd, 2005	Event	TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41.
August 23rd, 2000	Event	A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
August 23rd, 2000	Event	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.
August 23rd, 1996	Event	Osama bin Laden issues message entitled A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.
August 23rd, 1990	Event	Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
August 23rd, 1990	Event	Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
August 23rd, 1990	Event	West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
August 23rd, 1989	Event	Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
August 23rd, 1989	Event	All of Australia s 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.

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