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Movie events on the 23rd August
Texas Rangers arrest John Wesley Hardin. (Florida) (The Texas Rangers)
First Chicago Golf Club date. (Chicago, Illinois) (The Greatest Game Ever Played)
Rudoph Valentino dies after surgery for a perforated ulcer. (New York City) (Good Night Valentino)
Cynthia Powell and John Lennon get married at Mount Pleasant Register office. (Liverpool, England) (In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Yusuf K. Hawkins, an African-American youth; is murdered by a mob of Italian youths. (Besonhurst, Brooklyn New York) (Jungle Fever)
Seven strangers hide in a farmhouse as the bodies of the recent dead reactivate and attempt eat them. (nr Evens City, PA) (Night of the Living Dead)
A 9.6 Richter Scale earthquake rocks California, knocking L.A. into its own island, at 12:59pm. (L.A.) (Escape From L.A.)
Surveillance of Major Bennett Marco. (The Manchurian Candidate)
Secret Service Agent Thomas Barnes takes a bullet for his boss, US President Ashton. (Vantage Point)
A video of a Slender Man sighting is uploaded to the internet (Conyers, Georgia) (Slender Man)