23 August

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 23 August

1. In 1999, a 17-year-old gymnast bouncing on the sofa at her birthday party was killed when she lost her balance and bounced out of the window of a sixth floor flat in Berlin.
2. Boxing was televised for the first time on this date in 1933 when Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri fought an exhibition match at the Broadcasting House in London.
3. In 1997, Edinburgh Zoo reported that it had been using sunscreen on Penguins during a freak spell of hot weather. The heat had caused the birds to moult excessively leaving patches of bare skin.
4. Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from the Moon on this date in 1966.
5. In 1974, John Lennon reported seeing a UFO in New York.
6. Arial, a rare albino Lobster was stolen from a tank from Newquay Sea Life Centre on this date in 2000. Barbecue remains were later found on the beach.
7. In 2006, Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
8. In 1889, the first ship-to-shore wireless message was received in US: "US lightship to Cliff House" in San Francisco.
9. The Little Mermaid Statue in the Copenhagen harbour was dedicated on this date in 1913.
10. In 1991, in Lansing, Michigan, 250 gerbils chewed their way out of shipping boxes and scampered through the airport. Most were picked up and adopted by airport visitors.

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