What day of the week was August 23, 2006?

The day of the week August 23rd, 2006 fell on was a Wednesday.

Maynard Ferguson the Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (Big Bop Nouveau) (b. 1928) died on this day in 2006.

Natascha Kampusch the who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity.