Timeline August 2023

Events in August 2023 11

• 1923 – 2023 Bob Barker (1923-2023) Died 26 August 2023, aged 99 American television host who presented The Price Is Right for thirty-five years.
• 1928 – 2023 Federico Bahamontes The Eagle of Toledo Voted the greatest climber in the history of the Tour de France.
• 1943 – 2023 Robbie Robertson (1943-2023) Died 9 August 2023, aged 80 Canadian guitarist and songwriter of the Band, who wrote The Weight and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
• 1961 – 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961-2023) Died 23 August 2023, aged 62 Russian businessman who founded the Wagner Group and led an armed mutiny against the Russian military. He died in a plane crash two months later.
• 2023 Donald Trump becomes the first former US president criminally charged Thirty-four felony counts in New York Donald Trump was indicted in New York on 30 March 2023 over hush-money payments, the first criminal charge against a former United States president. Three further indictments followed during the year.
• 2023 US Open 2023 Men: Novak Djokovic · Women: Coco Gauff Djokovic won his 24th Grand Slam, setting the all-time record. Gauff won the first of her two US Open titles.
• 2023 Wildfires destroy Lahaina on Maui The deadliest United States wildfire in more than a century Wind-driven wildfires swept Maui on 8 August 2023, destroying the historic town of Lahaina and killing more than 100 people in the deadliest wildfire in the United States in over a century.
• 2023 Spain wins the Women's World Cup A final overshadowed by the federation president's conduct Spain beat England 1-0 on 20 August 2023 to win the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time. The celebration was overshadowed when federation president Luis Rubiales kissed player Jenni Hermoso without consent, triggering his resignation.
• 2023 Chandrayaan-3 lands on the Moon India becomes the first to land near the lunar south pole On 23 August 2023 India's Chandrayaan-3 mission soft-landed near the Moon's south pole — a region never before reached — making India the fourth country to achieve a lunar landing and the first at that location. It capped India's emergence as a major space power.
• 2023 India lands on Moon south pole Chandrayaan-3 first lunar south pole landing India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft made the first successful soft landing at the lunar south pole on August 23, 2023, making India the fourth country to land on the Moon.
• 2023 BRICS invites six new members The bloc's largest expansion At its Johannesburg summit on 24 August 2023 the BRICS group invited Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to join, its largest expansion.