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BURGOS, Spain, Aug. 23 (AP). -- Spanish Rebel leaders announced tonight that their troops had smashed an assault on the northern insurgent stronghold of Oviedo by 20,000 Asturian miners carrying dynamite.
Statement on SS Queen Mary's breaking of Atlantic westward crossing record
Franco moves picked troops from Badajoz and Merida in drive to take Madrid in 5 days; fears Germany and Italy will carry out non-intervention pact; conditions behind Rebel lines described; further atrocity stories; friction reptd between Fascists and Franco's Natl Guards created to prevent Fascist domination in event of victory
Brit warships rush to its protection when halted and searched on high seas by Spanish Govt cruiser and ordered to take gasoline cargo to Malaga instead of Melilla; Spanish comdr offers apology
1936A. S. Byatt, English novelist and poet (died 2023)[†]
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt, was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
1936Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (died 2010)[†]
Kenneth Carroll Guinn, was an American businessman, academic administrator, and politician who served as the 27th Governor of Nevada from 1999 to 2007. He previously served as interim president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) from 1994 until 1995. Originally a Democrat, he joined the Republican Party before running for governor.
1936Arthur B. C. Walker Jr., American physicist and academic (died 2001)[†]
Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker Jr. was an American solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar corona. Two of his sounding rocket payloads, the Stanford/MSFC Rocket Spectroheliograph Experiment and the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array, recorded the first full-disk, high-resolution images of the Sun in XUV with conventional geometries of normal incidence optics. This technology is used in solar telescopes such as SOHO/EIT and TRACE, and in the fabrication of microchips via ultraviolet photolithography.
1936The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.[†]
The Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) is a part of East Antarctica claimed by Australia as an external territory. It is administered by the Australian Antarctic Division, an agency of the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. It is the largest sector of Antarctica by area claimed by any country. Australia is an original signatory to the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, under which all territorial claims are held in abeyance. Only four other countries accept Australia's claim to sovereignty, being New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France, and Norway, all of which have territorial claims in Antarctica and mutually accept one another's claims.