What happened on July 23? There are more than 295 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About July 23
July 23 is the 205th day of the year 2024. There are 161 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 30th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Heisson, Washington 98622 sunrise will occur at 05:42 AM and sunset will occur at 08:50 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Leo. The modern birthstone for this month is Ruby while the mystical birthstone is Ruby.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 190 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For July 23
- 1632Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
- 1677Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
- 1793Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
- 1821While Mora Rebellion continuing, Greeks captured Monemvasia Castle and massacred nearly 3000 Turkish inhabitants.
- 1829In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
- 1833Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
- 1840The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
- 1862American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
- 1874Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
- 1881The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
- 1903The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
- 1908The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
- 1914Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will reject those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28.
- 1926Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
- 1927The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
- 1929The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
- 1936In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
- 1940The United States’ Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1942Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
- 1942The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
- 1942World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
- 1945The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
- 1952General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
- 1952The European Coal and Steel community is established.
- 1961The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
- 1962Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
- 1962The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
- 196712th 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. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
- 1968Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
- 1968The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.
- 1970Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur initiating massive reforms ;modernisation programs and end to a decade long civil war.
- 1972The United States launch Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
- 1974The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government.
- 1982The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
- 1983Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
- 1983The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group. In the subsequent riots of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.
- 1984Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
- 1986In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
- 1988General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
- 1992A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.
- 1992Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
- 1995Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
- 1997Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
- 1999ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
- 1999Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father.
- 2005Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
Who Were Born On July 23?
- 645Yazid I, Arabian Caliph (d. 683)
- 1301Otto, Duke of Austria (d. 1339)
- 1339King Louis I of Naples (d. 1384)
- 1503Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Queen consort of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1547)
- 1649Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
- 1705Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752)
- 1773Sir Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer, soldier and governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)
- 1775Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
- 1777Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
- 1796Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
- 1823Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian Catholic archbishop (d. 1894)
- 1838Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (d. 1910)
- 1856Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (d. 1920)
- 1864Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician (d. 1903)
- 1865Max Heindel, Danish occultist and mystic (d. 1919)
- 1884Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950)
- 1885Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-born American perfumer (d. 1935)
- 1886Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat (d. 1978)
- 1886Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
- 1888Raymond Chandler, American novelist (d. 1959)
- 1892Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
- 1894Arthur Treacher, English character actor (d. 1975)
- 1895Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1898Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
- 1898Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1987)
- 1899Gustav Heinemann, German politician (d. 1976)
- 1900John Babcock, Canadian World War I veteran (d. 2010)
- 1901Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992)
- 1905Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor and lecturer
- 1906Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian nationalist (d. 1931)
- 1906Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- 1909John William Finn, American WWII Medal of Honor recieptant (d. 2010)
- 1912M. H. Abrams, American literary critic and writer
- 1912Michael Wilding, English actor (d. 1979)
- 1913Michael Foot, English politician (d. 2010)
- 1914Nassos Daphnis, Greek born American painter (d.2010)
- 1914Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (d. 1971)
- 1918Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
- 1918Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1920Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999)
- 1921Calvert DeForest, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1923Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001)
- 1923Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958)
- 1923Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (d. 1997)
- 1924Gavin Lambert, British-born American screenwriter (d. 2005)
- 1925Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975)
- 1927Gérard Brach, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
- 1928Hubert Selby Jr., American author (d. 2004)
- 1928Leon Fleisher, American pianist
- 1928Vera Rubin, American astronomer
- 1929Lateef Jakande, Nigerian politician
- 1931Claude Fournier, French Canadian film director and screenwriter
- 1931Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
- 1931Queen Te Atairangikaahu of the New Zealand Māori (d. 2006)
- 1933Benedict Groeschel, American Roman Catholic priest
- 1933Bert Convy, American game show host and performer (d. 1991)
- 1933Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (d. 2010)
- 1935Hein Heinsen, Danish sculptor
- 1935Jim Hall, American race car driver and builder
- 1936Anthony Kennedy, American Supreme Court Justice
- 1936Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1937Dave Webster, American football player
- 1938Bert Newton, Australian actor and television show host
- 1938Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson (d. 2007)
- 1938Götz George, German actor
- 1938Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress (d. 2010)
- 1938Ronny Cox, American actor
- 1940Don Imus, American talk radio host
- 1940Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (d. 2010)
- 1941Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (d. 1985)
- 1942Dimitris Liantinis, Greek philosopher
- 1942Madeline Bell, American-British singer
- 1942Myra Hindley, English multiple murderer (d. 2002)
- 1942Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian politician
- 1943Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
- 1943Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter
- 1944Dino Danelli, drummer (Young Rascals)
- 1946Andy Mackay, oboe and saxophone player (Roxy Music)
- 1947David Essex, English singer
- 1947Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer and editor
- 1947Torsten Palm, Swedish racing driver
- 1948John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
- 1948John Hall, American politician and songwriter
- 1949Clive Rice, South African cricketer
- 1950Alan Turner, Australian cricketer
- 1950Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge
- 1950Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
- 1950Ian Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1951Edie McClurg, American actress
- 1951Michael McConnohie, American voice actor
- 1952Bill Nyrop, American ice hockey player (d. 1995)
- 1952Janis Siegel, singer (Manhattan Transfer)
- 1952Paul Hibbert, Australian cricketer (d. 2008)
- 1953Bob Hilton, American game show host and announcer
- 1953Graham Gooch, English cricketer
- 1954Annie Sprinkle, American porn star and performance artist
- 1957Jo Brand, British comedian
- 1957Kate Buffery, British actress and writer
- 1957Nick Galis, Greek basketball player
- 1957Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
- 1959Nancy Savoca, American filmmaker
- 1960Al Perez, American professional wrestler
- 1961André Ducharme, Québécois humorist and comedian
- 1961Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode)
- 1961Michael Durant, American helicopter pilot
- 1961Woody Harrelson, American actor
- 1962Eriq La Salle, American actor
- 1964Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist
- 1964Nick Menza, drummer (Megadeth))
- 1964Uwe Barth, German politician
- 1965Rob Dickinson, English guitarist, singer and songwriter (Catherine Wheel)
- 1965Slash, English-born American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
- 1966Samantha Beckinsale, English actress
- 1967Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
- 1967Titiyo, Swedish singer
- 1968Elden Campbell, American basketball player
- 1968Gary Payton, American basketball player
- 1968Stephanie Seymour, American supermodel
- 1969David Kaufman American voice-over artist and character actor
- 1970Charisma Carpenter, American actress
- 1970Sam Watters, singer, songwriter, record producer
- 1970Thea Dorn, German writer
- 1971Alison Krauss, American singer and fiddler
- 1971Chris Michalek, American jazz harmonica player
- 1971Christopher Lee, Singaporean actor and model
- 1971Dalvin DeGrate, American singer
- 1971Joel Stein, American journalist
- 1972Floyd Reifer, West Indian cricketer
- 1972Marlon Wayans, American actor
- 1973Andrea Scanavacca, Italian rugby player
- 1973Francis Healy, English-born Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Travis)
- 1973Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer and actor
- 1973Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
- 1973Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player
- 1974Kathryn Hahn, American actress
- 1974Maurice Greene, American sprinter
- 1974Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist
- 1974Sonny Siaki, Samoan professional wrestler
- 1974Stephanie March, American actress
- 1974Terry Glenn, American football player
- 1975Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress
- 1975Surya Sivakumar, Indian Tamil actor
- 1976Jonathan Gallant, Canadian bassist (Billy Talent)
- 1976Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
- 1977Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1977Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player
- 1977Shawn Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978Marianela González, Venezuelan actress
- 1978Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer
- 1978Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
- 1979Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican professional wrestler
- 1979Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
- 1979Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1979Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
- 1980Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny’s Child)
- 1981Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
- 1981Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
- 1982Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
- 1982Paul Wesley, American actor
- 1982Zanjoe Marudo, Filipino actor
- 1983Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
- 1983Andrew Eiden, American actor
- 1983Bec Hewitt, Australian actress
- 1983David Strettle, English rugby player
- 1984Brandon Roy, American professional basketball player
- 1984Matthew Murphy, English musician and singer (The Wombats)
- 1985Ólafur Hannesson, Icelandic television personality
- 1985Blake Harrison, English actor
- 1985Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
- 1985Matthew Colin Bailey, American designer
- 1986Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
- 1986Natalie Tran, Vietnamese-Australian YouTube video blogger
- 1986Nelson Philippe, French racing driver
- 1986Reece Ritchie, English actor
- 1989Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
- 1990Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
- 1992Amanda Wilson, English singer
- 1996Rachel G. Fox, American actress
Who Died On July 23?
- 1227Qiu Chuji, Chinese founder of the Dragon Gate Taoism (b. 1148)
- 1373Bridget of Sweden, Swedish mystic and saint, founder of the Bridgettine Order (b. 1303)
- 1403Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
- 1531Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, French nobleman, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers (birth year unknown)
- 1536Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, bastard son of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1519)
- 1562Gotz von Berlichingen, German Imperial Knight and mercenary (b. 1480)
- 1584John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
- 1692Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
- 1727Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. c. 1661)
- 1757Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
- 1764Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born American religious leader (b. 1703)
- 1773George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
- 1781John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
- 1793Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721)
- 1833Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (b. 1777)
- 1853Andries Pretorius, South African Boer leader (b. 1798)
- 1875Isaac Singer, American inventor and entrepreneur (b. 1811)
- 1878Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
- 1885Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
- 1916Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1919Spyridon Lambros, Greek history professor and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
- 1920Conrad Kohrs, German-born American rancher (b. 1835)
- 1923Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 1924Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
- 1926Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
- 1930Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (b. 1878)
- 1932Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
- 1941George Lyman Kittredge, American English literature scholar and Harvard University professor (b. 1860)
- 1942Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
- 1942Andy Ducat, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
- 1948D. W. Griffith, American film director (b. 1875)
- 1951Henri Philippe Pétain, French leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
- 1951Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (b. 1884)
- 1955Cordell Hull, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
- 1966Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
- 1968Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1875)
- 1971Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1973Eddie Rickenbacker, American fighter ace in World War I and founder of Rickenbacker Motors (b. 1890)
- 1979Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (b. 1898)
- 1980Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
- 1980Mollie Steimer, Russian-born American anarchist agitator and political prisoner (b. 1897)
- 1980Sarto Fournier, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
- 1982Giorgos Gavriilidis, Greek actor (b. 1906)
- 1982Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
- 1983Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
- 1985Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
- 1989Donald Barthelme, American short fiction writer and reporter (b. 1931)
- 1990Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese developer of television (b. 1899)
- 1993James R. Jordan, Sr., American soldier and murder victim, father of Michael Jordan (b. 1936)
- 1996Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (b. 1934)
- 1996Jean Muir, American actress (b. 1911)
- 1997Chūhei Nambu, Japanese long and triple jumper (b. 1904)
- 1999King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
- 2001Eudora Welty, American writer (b. 1909)
- 2002Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
- 2002Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
- 2002William Luther Pierce, American white nationalist and novelist (b. 1933)
- 2003James E. Davis, New York City police officer and councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
- 2003Yvonne Sanson, Greek actress (b. 1926)
- 2004Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist and composer (b. 1925)
- 2004Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
- 2004Piero Piccioni, Italian pianist, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1921)
- 2004Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
- 2005Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)
- 2006Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1927)
- 2007Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
- 2007Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1933)
- 2007Tor Kamata, American-Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1937)
- 2008Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1924)
- 2010Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b. 1916)
- 2011Amy Winehouse, British singer songwriter (b. 1983)
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