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, a famous American author of novels, plays, and poetry who spent a significant portion of her life in Albemarle County, was born to a socially distinguished Southern family in Richmond, Virginia.
• 1926 – The front page of the Daily Progress featured a picture of silent screen idol Rudolph Valentino over the heading: MOVIE “SHEIK” DEAD. Shortly after the premiere of The Son of the Sheik, the 31-year-old Valentino died suddenly from peritonitis after he suffered a ruptured ulcer. His death caused worldwide hysteria, several suicides, and riots at his lying in state, which attracted a crowd that stretched for 11 blocks.
• 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.