THIS DAY IN HISTORY - AUG 23

• ON AUG 23
• 1902 Fannie Farmer opens cooking school

• American Revolution

• 1784 State of Franklin declares independence

• Automotive

• 1904 Patent for tire chain issued

• Civil War

• 1861 Rose Greenhow is arrested

• Cold War

• 1979 Aleksandr Godunov defects to United States

• Crime

• 2006 Austrian teen escapes after eight years in captivity

• Disaster

• 1999 NYC reports first cases of West Nile virus

• General Interest

• 1926 Valentino dies
• 1927 Sacco and Vanzetti executed

• Hollywood

• 2000 First Survivor finale airs

• Literary

• 1869 Edgar Lee Masters, author of Spoon River Anthology, is born

• Music

• 1970 Lou Reed plays his last show with the Velvet Underground

• Old West

• 1877 Texas Rangers arrest John Wesley Hardin

• Presidential

• 1814 Dolley Madison saves portrait from British

• Sports

• 1989 Pete Rose gets booted from baseball

• Vietnam War

• 1966 U.S. cargo ship strikes a mine near Saigon
• 1968 Communist forces renew offensive

• World War I

• 1914 Battle of Mons

• World War II

• 1939 The Hitler-Stalin Pact