July 23rd Events |
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| July 23rd, 2005 (July 23 2005) | Event | Three bombs hit the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people. | |
| July 23rd, 1999 (July 23 1999) | Event | Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan, is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morroco at the death of his father. | |
| July 23rd, 1999 (July 23 1999) | Event | ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo. | |
| July 23rd, 1997 (July 23 1997) | Event | Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel. | |
| July 23rd, 1997 (July 23 1997) | Event | Spree killer Andrew Cunanan commits suicide in the upstairs bedroom aboard a Miami houseboat to avoid capture by the police. | |
| July 23rd, 1995 (July 23 1995) | Event | Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and is visibly seen with a naked eye nearly a year later. | |
| July 23rd, 1992 (July 23 1992) | Event | A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples. | |
| July 23rd, 1988 (July 23 1988) | Event | General Ne Win, effective ruler of Myanmar since 1962 resigns after pro-democracy protests. | |
| July 23rd, 1986 (July 23 1986) | Event | In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey. | |
| July 23rd, 1984 (July 23 1984) | Event | Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine. | |
| July 23rd, 1983 (July 23 1983) | Event | Around 3,000 Tamils were slaughtered by Shinhalese Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka and some 400,000 Tamils fled to neighboring Tamil Nadu, India and a lot found refuge in Europe and Canada. This incident, known as Black July led directly to beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka. | |
| July 23rd, 1983 (July 23 1983) | Event | Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 lands "dead-stick" in Gimli, Manitoba. | |
| July 23rd, 1982 (July 23 1982) | Event | The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86. | |
| July 23rd, 1972 (July 23 1972) | Event | The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite. | |
| July 23rd, 1970 (July 23 1970) | Event | Qaboos ibn Sa id, becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa id ibn Taimur. | |
| July 23rd, 1968 (July 23 1968) | Event | Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurredied in During the shootout, a riot began that lasted for five days. | Evans Quotes |
| July 23rd, 1968 (July 23 1968) | Event | The first and only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft took place when a 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers was taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel. | |
| July 23rd, 1967 (July 23 1967) | Event | 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned). | |
| July 23rd, 1962 (July 23 1962) | Event | Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal. | |
| July 23rd, 1962 (July 23 1962) | Event | The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos was signed. | |
| July 23rd, 1961 (July 23 1961) | Event | Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) founded in Nicaragua. | |
| July 23rd, 1956 (July 23 1956) | Event | The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs. | |
| July 23rd, 1952 (July 23 1952) | Event | Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community. | |
| July 23rd, 1952 (July 23 1952) | Event | General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasserthe real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt. | |
| July 23rd, 1945 (July 23 1945) | Event | The process against Philippe Petain begins. | |
| July 23rd, 1942 (July 23 1942) | Event | The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened | |
| July 23rd, 1942 (July 23 1942) | Event | World War II: Hitler signs the Operation Edelweiss. | |
| July 23rd, 1940 (July 23 1940) | Event | US Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles`s declaration on the US non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic StatesEstonia, Latvia and Lithuania. | |
| July 23rd, 1936 (July 23 1936) | Event | In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties. | |
| July 23rd, 1929 (July 23 1929) | Event | Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words. | |
| July 23rd, 1926 (July 23 1926) | Event | Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. | |
| July 23rd, 1914 (July 23 1914) | Event | Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinandied in When Serbia denies Austria-Hungary their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914 | |
| July 23rd, 1903 (July 23 1903) | Event | Ford Motor Company sells its first car. | |
| July 23rd, 1881 (July 23 1881) | Event | The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world s oldest international sport federation, is founded. | |
| July 23rd, 1874 (July 23 1874) | Event | Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa. | |
| July 23rd, 1862 (July 23 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army. | |
| July 23rd, 1840 (July 23 1840) | Event | The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union. | |
| July 23rd, 1833 (July 23 1833) | Event | Cornerstones laid for construction of the Kirtland Temple in Ohio. | |
| July 23rd, 1829 (July 23 1829) | Event | In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the Typographer, a precursor to the typewriter. | |
| July 23rd, 1793 (July 23 1793) | Event | The Prussians conquer Mayence. | |
| July 23rd, 1632 (July 23 1632) | Event | 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France. | |
