Template:On this day/August 23

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

August 23:

• 1863 – Princess Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, writer and celebrity, was born in Richmond, Virginia, and lived much of her life at Castle Hill, the Rives family estate in Albemarle County.
• 2011 – The 5.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Mineral, struck at 1:51:04 p.m. local time and was the largest magnitude earthquake in Virginia since 1897. The USGS said tens of millions of people in the eastern U.S. and southeastern Canada felt the Louisa County earthquake and that the it may have been felt by more people that any other U.S. quake. It cracked the Washington Monument.