Ludwig Ferdinand Huber (1764–1804) was a German translator, diplomat, playwright, literary critic, and journalist. Born in Paris to the Bavarian-born writer Michael Huber and his French wife, he grew up bilingual in French and German and published translations from English and French from an early age. When he lived in Leipzig and Dresden as a young man, he and his fiancée Dora Stock were both close friends of the poet Friedrich Schiller. From 1788, Huber served as a diplomat in Mainz, where he met world traveller Georg Forster and started an affair with his wife Therese. He and Therese later married after escaping from revolutionary Mainz to Switzerland, where Huber was active as a journalist and reviewer, and as translator of the works of Isabelle de Charrière. In 1798, Huber returned to Germany as an editor for Johann Friedrich Cotta's newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung. Having fallen into relative obscurity after his death, he is studied mostly for his friendships and his literary criticism. ( Full article...)

Jason Reynolds, author of Ain't Burned All the Bright

• ... that Ain't Burned All the Bright (author pictured) consists of only three sentences across 384 mostly illustrated pages?
• ... that the men's 100 metres event at the 2023 British Athletics Championships was run in heavy rain?
• ... that Albert Bahhuth fled the Lebanese Civil War and owned a Subway franchise before being named an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles?
• ... that favissae were underground pits dedicated to the disposal of votive offerings that were no longer in use?
• ... that John Sterling, Anthony Harrison and Chuck Compton were all signed by the Green Bay Packers as replacement players because of a players' strike during the 1987 NFL season?
• ... that in 1875, Queen Victoria paid £250 to have a north London graveyard for Lutherans maintained in perpetuity?
• ... that Sue Marx won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for Young at Heart, about a romance between two octogenarians?
• ... that in the 1950s, links to sexually transmitted infection were dropped from the title of several skin-disease journals, including the Archives of Dermatological Research?

Hun Manet

• Hun Manet (pictured) is sworn in as prime minister of Cambodia, succeeding his father Hun Sen's 38-year term.
• In the United Kingdom, former nurse Lucy Letby receives a whole-life order for the murders of seven infants and an attempted six more.
• Bernardo Arévalo is elected as president of Guatemala.
• In association football, the FIFA Women's World Cup concludes with Spain defeating England in the final.

August 23: Black Ribbon Day

Proclamation of Rebellion

• 1775 – King George III issued a proclamation (copy pictured) that declared elements of the American colonies of Great Britain to be in a state of "open and avowed rebellion".
• 1873 – The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened to traffic.
• 1933 – The Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane made landfall in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and went on to cause at least 47 deaths in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region.
• 1943 – Second World War: A decisive Soviet victory against German forces at the Battle of Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war.
• 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten in Vienna, escaped from her captor's house in Strasshof an der Nordbahn after more than eight years in captivity.