August 23rd


1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photographs of Earth from the Moon. Unfortunately the pictures cannot be used because they are of a female ESPN reporter disrobing in her hotel room.


1979: Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States. He is immediately mistaken for a shirtless bartender at Studio 54.


1990: West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3. They register at Macy's and Crate & Barrel.