August 23, or Slave Trade Abolition and Black Ribbon Day
Zodiac Sign Leo
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Leo, August 23. Born on this day often come across as aloof and cold people.
With their indifference to earthly affairs, over-immersion in their own needs and interests, they may seem to other egoists.
In fact, they are not so much selfish as purposeful. If they want to achieve something in life, being distracted by trifles is not in their rules.
Being active natures, they usually infect others with their energy, forcing others to pull themselves up to their level.
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Leo men born on August 23:
- characterized by the following features:
- romantic,
- cheerful,
- idealistic,
- organized.
- A man born under the sign of Leo is so possessive that he is sometimes ready to go ahead for the sake of his beloved woman.
- He will never quietly suffer and regret the lost opportunities - Leo always acts actively and sometimes aggressively.
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Leo women born on August 23:
- endowed with the following traits:
- interesting,
- loyal,
- disciplined,
- confident.
- Leo women are a contradiction of nature, whose strength and pride resonates with sentimentality and the need for love and admiration.
- The Leo woman almost on a physical level needs not just attention, but love on the verge of a foul, renunciation, sacrifice and the partner's desire to dissolve in her interests.
Main event
International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
Stone Town Slave Trade Squire
A large slave market appeared in Zanzibar at the beginning of the 19th century. From 1830 to 1873, more than 600,000 people were sold on the slave trade area in Stone Town, an average of 10,000 to 30,000 people were sold annually in Zanzibar.
In 1873, the slave trade was banned but the slave trade continued after the official ban until the 1890s.
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The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition is celebrated worldwide every year on 23 August. This date was established in 1998 on the recommendation of UNESCO on the day of the uprising of the slaves of San Domingo and Haiti in 1791, which initiated the process of eliminating the system of slavery. UNESCO invites all UN member states to take part in commemorative events.At the beginning of the third millennium, the authorities of the American state of Ohio timed the opening of the museum of the history of slavery.
In Liverpool on August 23, 2007, the International Museum of Slavery was opened, which is devoted mainly to the transatlantic slave trade.
On the island of Gori off the coast of Senegal, which was the main transit point for slavers, an annual commemoration ceremony for the victims of the slave trade is held.
Slavery is an unprecedented tragedy and one of the darkest pages of human history. Despite the fact that slavery was abolished and condemned at the international level, it continues to exist in new forms and affects millions of people around the world today.
According to the UN, every year millions of people, mostly women and children, become victims of deception and violence, turn into "living goods" and are exploited. "The new slave trade" has become one of the most acute and large-scale problems of our time.
Some countries celebrate their holidays - the days of liberation from slavery. For example, Jamaica on August 1 marks the Day of Emancipation.
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes
The European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Stalinism and Nazism is celebrated on August 23, the day of the non-aggression pact signed in 1939 between Germany and the Soviet Union (the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact). This document, which provided for the possibility of prolongation, obliged its signatories to refrain from aggressive actions against each other for a period of 10 years.
At the same time, a secret protocol on the separation of spheres of influence in Eastern Europe was signed. The existence of a secret protocol was denied for a long time by the Soviet side, and only in the late 1980s this fact was recognized and became the property of the world community.
Also on August 23...
1382 - for the first time in Russia, artillery was used in the defense of Moscow from the raid of Tatar Khan Tokhtamysh.
1572 - ''Bartholomew's Night'' in Paris - a mass slaughter of Huguenots in France, organized by Catholics on the night of August 24, 1572, on the eve of the day of St. Bartholomew.
1770 - English captain James Cook declared Australia the property of England.
1880 - Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky first used the word "satellite" in the meaning of the Earth satellite. He said in a letter that he planned to introduce into the novel ''Karamazov Brothers'' a scene with the devil: “What will happen in the space with an ax? "... If it gets far away, it will, I think, fly around the Earth, without knowing why, in the form of a satellite ... ”.
1904 - patented car tire chain.
1913 - London police asked the authorities to impose speed limits for cars in urban areas.
1913 - a monument to the ''Little Mermaid'' is opened in Copenhagen - the heroine of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
1927 - execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the USA.
1948 - ''World Council of Churches'' is created in Amsterdam.
1955 - the first flight of the first convertiplane with a rotary rotor - "Bell XV-3".
1959 - US government announced the introduction in 400 schools of the country, as a subject of study - Russian language.
1970 - River Phoenix was born (d. 1993), American film actor (“Stay with me”, “Mosquito Coast”, “My personal Idaho state”), Joaquin Phoenix's elder brother.
1977 - on the aircraft "Gossamer Condor" made the first flight, based only on the muscular strength of the person. The Kramer Award for this achievement was received by designer Paul Beattie McCready and pilot Brian Allen.
1989 - on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Soviet-German Pact, the ''Baltic Way'' campaign was held, when residents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia built a living chain almost 600 km long - about two million people (the largest living chain in the world).
2002 - fashion show by top designers from Italy, Denmark and China in the central square of the Chinese capital Tiananmen.
2002 - died Anthony Stafford Bear (b. 1926), a theorist and cybernetics practitioner.
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