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August 23, 2023
On August 23, 2023, chandrayaan-3 mission initiated first Moon landing in Indian history. The year's #1 song was "Last Night" by Morgan Wallen.
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Featured · August 23, 2023
Chandrayaan-3 mission initiated first Moon landing in Indian history.
Chandrayaan-3 is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by ISRO. The mission consists of Vikram, a lunar lander, and Pragyan, a lunar rover, as replacements for the equivalents on Chandrayaan-2, which had crashed on landing in 2019.
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2023 (MMXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.
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On August 23, 2023
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2023 Chandrayaan-3 mission initiated first Moon landing in Indian history. Indian lunar mission (2023–Present)
Chandrayaan-3 is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by ISRO. The mission consists of Vikram, a lunar lander, and Pragyan, a lunar rover, as replacements for the equivalents on Chandrayaan-2, which had crashed on landing in 2019.
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2023 A business jet carrying key leadership members of the Russian private military company Wagner Group crashes, killing all ten people on board. Russian private military company
The Wagner Group, officially known as PMC Wagner, is a Russian state-funded private military company (PMC) that was controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin, and since then by Pavel Prigozhin. The Wagner Group has used infrastructure of the Russian Armed Forces. Evidence suggests that Wagner has been used as a proxy by the Russian government, allowing it to have plausible deniability for military operations abroad, and hiding the true casualties of Russia's foreign interventions.
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- April 10 A mass shooting occurs at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, that leaves five victims dead and eight wounded.
- April 11 During the Pazigyi massacre, an airstrike conducted by the Myanmar Air Force kills at least 100 villagers in Pazigyi, Sagaing Region.
- April 13 The house of Jack Teixeira is raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents; he is arrested on the same day.
- April 14 The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the European Space Agency.
- April 20 SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, launches for the first time. It explodes four minutes into flight.
- April 4 Finland becomes a member of NATO after Turkey accepts its membership request.
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