August 23

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1305	William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.	Grave Digger	William Wallace (Braveheart)	Tunes of War
2.	1572	Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris – St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.	The Varukers	Another Religion, Another War	Another Religion, Another War
3.	1775	King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.	The Crystals	He's a Rebel	He's a Rebel
4.	1784	Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.	Bikini Kill	Reject All American	Reject All American
5.	1927	Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.	Joan Baez	The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti	Forever Young
6.	1942	World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky.	The Homosexuals	Calvary	Astral Glamour
7.	1966	Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.	John Vanderslice	Lunar Landscapes	Cellar Door
8.	1998	UNESCO designates Aug. 23 as the nternational Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition	Riot/Clone	Slave Trade	To Find a Little Bluebird

(Historical facts about August 23 are from Wikipedia)