Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 23

August 23:

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• 1566 - Calvinists were granted rights in the Netherlands
• 1821 - Mexico gained its independence from Spain
• 1833 - Slavery was abolished in the British colonies
• 1966 - NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from the distance of the Moon
• 1976 - A major earthquake in China killed thousands of people.

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