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:

• 1877 – Outlaw John Wesley Hardin was apprehended aboard a Pensacola train.
• 1923 – Henry C. Mustin died.
• 2007 – Escambia County Commissioners cancelled the planned purchase of a $1.4 million property following disclosures of a relationship between the sellers and County Administrator George Touart.