Editing 2023 (section)

=== August ===
*[[August 1]] – [[Global warming]]: The world's [[Ocean temperature|oceans]] reach a new record high temperature of {{convert|20.96|C|F}}, exceeding the previous record in 2016. July is also the hottest month on record for globally averaged [[Temperature measurement#Surface air temperature|surface air temperatures]] by a considerable margin ({{convert|0.3|C|F}}).<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66387537 |date=4 August 2023 |access-date=4 August 2023 |archive-date=August 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804080821/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66387537 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite news |title=These places baked the most during Earth's hottest month on record |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/02/july-hottest-month-global-temperatures/ |date=2 August 2023 |access-date=4 August 2023 |archive-date=September 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906234234/https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/02/july-hottest-month-global-temperatures/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=July 2023 is set to be the hottest month on record |work=World Meteorological Organization |url=https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/july-2023-set-be-hottest-month-record |date=31 July 2023 |access-date=5 August 2023 }}</ref>
** The joint venture [[Centura Health]] split up as [[AdventHealth]] and [[CommonSpirit Health]] parted ways.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/adventhealth-renames-hospitals-as-centura-health-partnership-with-commonspirit-ends|title=AdventHealth renames hospitals as partnership with CommonSpirit ends|last=Gooch|first=Kelly|date=August 1, 2023|magazine=[[Becker's Hospital Review]]|access-date=January 10, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2023/08/02/centura-hospitals-rebrand.html|title=AdventHealth, CommonSpirit Health rebrand with end of Centura|last=Romano|first=Analisa|date=August 2, 2023|newspaper=[[Denver Business Journal]]|url-access=subscription|access-date=January 10, 2025}}</ref>
[[File:FEMA - 7977290.jpg|thumb|Burned building after the [[2023 Hawaii wildfires]]]]
*[[August 8]] – [[2023 Hawaii wildfires]]: 17,000 acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of [[wildfire]]s break out on the island of [[Maui]] in [[Hawaii]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Maui police confirm identity of 101st wildfire victim, a 76-year-old who boated from California in the 1970s |url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/maui-police-confirm-identity-101st-wildfire-victim-76-year-old-who-boated-from-california-1970s |website=Fox News |date=February 14, 2024 |publisher=The Associated Press |access-date=13 March 2024}}</ref>
* [[August 10]] – [[Tapestry, Inc.|Tapestry]], the holding company of [[Coach New York]] and [[Kate Spade New York|Kate Spade]], announces it will acquire [[Michael Kors]]' [[Capri Holdings]], which also owns [[Versace]] and [[Jimmy Choo (fashion house)|Jimmy Choo]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Valinsky |first=Jordan |date=2023-08-10 |title=Coach and Versace's parent companies are combining in an $8.5 billion deal {{!}} CNN Business |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/investing/tapestry-capri-acquisition/index.html |access-date=2023-10-17 |website=CNN |language=en |archive-date=October 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018191148/https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/investing/tapestry-capri-acquisition/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[August 16]]–[[August 21|21]] – [[Hurricane Hilary]], a Category 4 Pacific Hurricane, strikes the [[Baja California peninsula]] and later causes record flooding in [[Southern California]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-20 |title=Rain from Tropical Storm Hilary lashes California and Mexico, swamping roads and trapping cars |url=https://apnews.com/article/hilary-tropical-storm-flooding-california-mexico-f89aeddeb62d55c935699ac81ca85f1d |access-date=2023-08-22 |website=AP News |language=en |archive-date=August 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822134547/https://apnews.com/article/hilary-tropical-storm-flooding-california-mexico-f89aeddeb62d55c935699ac81ca85f1d |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[August 18]] – [[American–Japanese–Korean trilateral pact]]: The United States, Japan, and South Korea agree to sign a trilateral pact.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/biden-japan-south-korea-sum.html |title=Biden Welcomes Japanese and South Korean Leaders to Camp David Summit |date=18 August 2023 |last=Baker |first=Peter |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=18 August 2023 |archive-date=August 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819064829/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/biden-japan-south-korea-sum.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[August 20]] – [[2023 Guatemalan general election|2023 Guatemalan presidential election]]: After two rounds of voting, [[Bernardo Arévalo]] of [[Semilla (political party)|Semilla]] is elected with 58% of the vote.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Judt |first=Daniel |date=2023-08-22 |title=Bernardo Arévalo's Unexpected Victory Brings Guatemala Another Democratic Spring |language=en-US |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/world/bernardo-arevalo-guatemala-election/ |access-date=2023-08-22 |issn=0027-8378 |archive-date=August 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822154305/https://www.thenation.com/article/world/bernardo-arevalo-guatemala-election/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Romero |first1=Simon |last2=García |first2=Jody |date=2023-08-21 |title=Anticorruption Crusader Wins in Guatemala, in Rebuke to Establishment |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/world/americas/arevalo-wins-election-guatemala.html |access-date=2023-08-22 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822154305/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/world/americas/arevalo-wins-election-guatemala.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Yellowknife oli 2023228 text.jpg|thumb|[[2023 Canadian wildfires|Wildfire]] near [[Yellowknife]] in the [[Northwest Territories]], Canada]]
*August 21
**[[2023 Canadian wildfires]]: 68% of the [[Northwest Territories]] are forced to evacuate to other parts of the country due to wildfires.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=O'Neill |first1=Natasha |last2=Otis |first2=Daniel |date=August 21, 2023 |title=Military deploys 350 soldiers to Northwest Territories, 68 per cent of population evacuated |work=[[CTV News]] |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/military-deploys-350-soldiers-to-northwest-territories-68-per-cent-of-population-evacuated-1.6527811 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906171003/https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/military-deploys-350-soldiers-to-northwest-territories-68-per-cent-of-population-evacuated-1.6527811 |archive-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref>
**[[Saudi Arabia]] is [[Saudi Arabia-Yemen border killings|accused of mass killing]] hundreds of African migrants attempting to cross its border with [[Yemen]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards – report |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66545787 |date=21 August 2023 |access-date=21 August 2023 |archive-date=August 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821090934/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66545787 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title='Fired on like rain': Saudi border guards accused of mass killings of Ethiopians |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/aug/21/fired-on-like-rain-saudi-border-guards-accused-of-mass-killings-of-ethiopians |date=21 August 2023 |access-date=21 August 2023 |archive-date=August 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821084151/https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/aug/21/fired-on-like-rain-saudi-border-guards-accused-of-mass-killings-of-ethiopians |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[August 22]] – Former [[Prime Minister of Thailand|Prime Minister]] [[Thaksin Shinawatra]] returns to [[Thailand]] after 15 years of political exile.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Head |first1=Jonathan |title=Thaksin Shinawatra: Former Thailand PM jailed after return from exile |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66577725 |access-date=23 August 2023 |work=BBC News |date=22 August 2023}}</ref>
*[[August 23]]
**India's [[Chandrayaan-3]] becomes the first spacecraft to land near the [[Lunar south pole|south pole]] of the [[Moon]], carrying a [[lunar lander]] named [[Chandrayaan-2#Vikram lander|''Vikram'']] and a [[lunar rover]] named [[Pragyan (Chandrayaan-3)|''Pragyan'']].<ref>{{Cite news |title=India makes history as Chandrayaan-3 lands near Moon's south pole |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-india-66576580 |date=23 August 2023 |access-date=23 August 2023 |archive-date=August 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230823114540/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-india-66576580 |url-status=live }}</ref>
**[[Wagner Group]] leader [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]], founder [[Dmitry Utkin]] and eight others<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-08-23-23/h_7fad337568d6a8b1188bdb5512584868 |title=Russian transport agency says Prigozhin was on board plane that crashed |date=23 August 2023 |last=Knight |first=Mariya |publisher=[[CNN]] |access-date=24 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-08-23-23/h_e0c870b779d2c84274c7a0dcd82d1b8b |title=Wagner-linked social media channel says Prigozhin has been killed |date=23 August 2023 |last1=Krebs |first1=Katharina |last2=Pennington |first2=Josh |last3=Knight |first3=Mariya |publisher=CNN |access-date=24 August 2023 |archive-date=24 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824050903/https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-08-23-23/h_e0c870b779d2c84274c7a0dcd82d1b8b |url-status=live}}</ref> are killed when their plane [[2023 Wagner Group plane crash|crashes]] in Russia.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733|title=Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia|work=BBC News|date=August 23, 2023|access-date=August 23, 2023|archive-date=August 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230823171520/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[August 30]] – Following the announcement of incumbent president [[Ali Bongo Ondimba|Ali Bongo Ondimba's]] reelection as [[President of Gabon|President]] of [[Gabon]] after the [[2023 Gabonese general election|2023 presidential election]], the [[Armed Forces of Gabon|military]] launches [[2023 Gabonese coup d'état|a successful coup d'état]] and creates the [[Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions]] to govern the country, ending the rule of the [[Bongo family]] after 56 years in power.<ref name="cnn">{{cite news |date=30 August 2023 |title=Gabon military officers claim to have seized power after election |language=en |work=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/30/africa/gabon-military-officers-say-power-seized-election-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=30 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830064634/https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/30/africa/gabon-military-officers-say-power-seized-election-intl-hnk/index.html |archive-date=30 August 2023}}</ref>
*[[August 31]] – [[2023 Johannesburg building fire]]: 77 people are killed and more than 85 are injured in a fire in a building that had been taken over by gangs who rented it out to [[squatters]].<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |date=2023-09-01 |title=Sniffer dogs search for clues in ashes of deadly South African fire |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sniffer-dogs-search-clues-ashes-deadly-south-african-fire-2023-09-01/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |archive-date=September 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230903080650/https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sniffer-dogs-search-clues-ashes-deadly-south-african-fire-2023-09-01/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Allison |first1=Simon |last2=Sullivan |first2=Helen |date=2023-08-31 |title=At least 73 killed as fire engulfs five-storey building in Johannesburg |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/31/johannesburg-south-africa-building-fire-deaths |access-date=2023-09-05 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=August 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831153317/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/31/johannesburg-south-africa-building-fire-deaths |url-status=live }}</ref>