Historical Events for 23rd August 2025

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1940 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands dismisses Dutch Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer
1953 - Phil Grate sets a record for throwing a baseball 443 ft 3 in (135.1 m)
1968 - Yankees and Tigers play a 3-3 tie in 19 innings due to a 1 am curfew
1973 - Norrmalmstorg robbery and six-day siege begin in Stockholm, the first Swedish crime filmed live on TV and the origin of the term Stockholm Syndrome
1977 - First human-powered flight over a mile by Bryan Allen in the Gossamer Condor, designed by Paul MacCready, wins the first Kremer Prize
1992 - Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress
2020 - Indianapolis 500: 2017 champion Takuma Sato of Japan wins his second title under a yellow caution flag after a crash with three laps remaining
2023 - Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, is reported killed along with nine others in a plane crash northwest of Moscow, according to the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency

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