
July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ==Events== *1632 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France. *1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter. *1862 - American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army. *1903 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Motor Company Model A. *1914 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. When Serbia denied Austria-Hungary of their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914 *1926 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. *1940 - US Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles`s declaration on the US non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. *1942- The Treblinka extermination camp is opened *1952 - General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser - the real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt. *1956 - The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs. *1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic Ocean television signal. *1967 - 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). *1972 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite. *1973 - Robert Anton Wilson, the occultist/philosopher, either achieved contact with extraterrestrials from Sirius or started a long-term period of having wild hallucinations, depending on which way you want to look at it. *1982 - The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86. *1983 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 crash-lands in Gimli, Manitoba. *1984 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nudity photos of her appeared in "Penthouse" magazine. *1986 - In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey. *1997 - Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel. *1999 - Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan, is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morroco at the death of his father. *1999 - Hijack of ANA Flight 61 in Tokyo. *2003 - Operation Warrior Sweep is the first major military deployment of the Afghan National Army. *2004 - 11 years after its destruction, Stari most (the Old Bridge) in Mostar is reopened. ==Births== *1301 - Otto of Austria, Duke of Austria *1626 - Sabbatai Zevi, Jewish false Messiah (d. 1676) *1649 - Pope Clement XI (d. 1721) *1777 - Philipp Otto Runge, painter (d. 1810) *1796 - Franz Berwald, composer (d. 1868) *1865 - Max Heindel (born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Denmark); Christian occultist, astrologer and mystic (d. 1919) *1884 - Emil Jannings, actor (d. 1950) *1886 - Salvador de Madariaga (d. 1978), League of Nations disarmament chief *1888 - Raymond Chandler, author (d. 1959) *1892 - Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975) *1893 - Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (d. 1990) *1899 - Gustav Heinemann, politician, President of Germany (d. 1976) *1906 - Vladimir Prelog, Croat chemist, Nobel Prize (d. 1998) *1923 - Witto Aloma, Major League Baseball player (d. 1997) *1936 - Don Drysdale, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1993) *1936 - Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Punjabi revolutionary *1938 - Bert Newton, actor, TV show host *1938 - Gotz George, actor *1942 - Myra Hindley, Moors murders (d. 2002) *1947 - David Essex, rock and roll singer *1950 - Alex Kozinski, Circuit Judge *1961 - Woody Harrelson, actor *1961 - Martin L. Gore, musician, songwriter (Depeche Mode) *1965 - Slash (musician) (born "Saul Hudson"), guitarist (Guns N Roses) *1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor *1970 - Thea Dorn, German writer * 1970 - Qaboos of Oman, Sultan of Oman *1971 - Alison Krauss, bluegrass singer, musician * 1971 - Dalvin DeGrate aka Mr. Dalvin, R&B singer *1973 - Nomar Garciaparra, baseball star * 1973 - Monica Lewinsky, Congress of the United States intern *1974 - Maurice Greene, United States athlete *1976 - Judit Polgár, Hungary Chess Player. *1978 - Stefanie Sun, Singaporean songstress *1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, actor ==Deaths== *1373 - Saint Birgitta, saint *1757 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer *1773 - George Edwards, naturalist (b. 1693) *1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, general, 18th President of the United States *1916 - Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) *1920 - Conrad Kohrs, rancher *1924 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850) *1948 - D. W. Griffith, film director *1951 - Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France *1955 - Cordell Hull, Secretary of State *1966 - Montgomery Clift, actor *1971 - Van Heflin, actor *1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker, aviation pioneer *1982 - Vic Morrow, actor *1983 - Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899) *1997 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete *1999 - King Hassan II of Morocco *2001 - Eudora Welty, author (b. 1909) *2002 - Leo McKern, actor *2002 - Dr. William L. Pierce, author, leader of the National Alliance *2002 - Chaim Potok, American novelist *2003 - James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) *2004 - Carlos Paredes, musician and composer *2004 - Mehmood, Indian actor ==Holidays and observances== *Egypt - Revolution Day (1952) *Libya - Revolution Day *Papua New Guinea - Remembrance Day *Roman Empire - Neptunalia held in honor of Poseidon *Rastafari movement - Celebration of the birthday of Haile Selassie *Astrology: First day of sun sign Leo == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/23 BBC: On This Day] ---- July 22 - July 24 - June 23 - August 23 -- historical anniversaries nds:23 Juli
--User:Maveric149 00:00, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) Template:July 23 selected anniversaries - Template talk:July 23 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:July_23_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- My apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but Henri Petain is shown as having died twice (1951 and 1955). User:Uyanga 19:49 23 Jul 2003 (UTC) I removed the 1955 Petain entry; I believe the 1951 date to be the correct one. I also removed John Baratta, Coolest guy in Doylestown from the births list, on the assumption that it was bogus. User:Zoicon5 16 Oct 2003 "1904 - In St. Louis, Missouri, Charles E. Menches invents the ice cream cone during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition." Upon reading Ice cream cone, this can be noted to be false. I'm removing it. User:Radagast 02:06, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
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July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ==Events== *1632 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France. *1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter. *1862 - American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army. *1903 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Motor Company Model A. *1914 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. When Serbia denied Austria-Hungary of their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914 *1926 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. *1940 - US Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles`s declaration on the US non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. *1942- The Treblinka extermination camp is opened *1952 - General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser - the real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt. *1956 - The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs. *1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic Ocean television signal. *1967 - 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). *1972 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite. *1973 - Robert Anton Wilson, the occultist/philosopher, either achieved contact with extraterrestrials from Sirius or started a long-term period of having wild hallucinations, depending on which way you want to look at it. *1982 - The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86. *1983 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 crash-lands in Gimli, Manitoba. *1984 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nudity photos of her appeared in "Penthouse" magazine. *1986 - In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey. *1997 - Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel. *1999 - Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan, is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morroco at the death of his father. *1999 - Hijack of ANA Flight 61 in Tokyo. *2003 - Operation Warrior Sweep is the first major military deployment of the Afghan National Army. *2004 - 11 years after its destruction, Stari most (the Old Bridge) in Mostar is reopened. ==Births== *1301 - Otto of Austria, Duke of Austria *1626 - Sabbatai Zevi, Jewish false Messiah (d. 1676) *1649 - Pope Clement XI (d. 1721) *1777 - Philipp Otto Runge, painter (d. 1810) *1796 - Franz Berwald, composer (d. 1868) *1865 - Max Heindel (born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Denmark); Christian occultist, astrologer and mystic (d. 1919) *1884 - Emil Jannings, actor (d. 1950) *1886 - Salvador de Madariaga (d. 1978), League of Nations disarmament chief *1888 - Raymond Chandler, author (d. 1959) *1892 - Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975) *1893 - Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (d. 1990) *1899 - Gustav Heinemann, politician, President of Germany (d. 1976) *1906 - Vladimir Prelog, Croat chemist, Nobel Prize (d. 1998) *1923 - Witto Aloma, Major League Baseball player (d. 1997) *1936 - Don Drysdale, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1993) *1936 - Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Punjabi revolutionary *1938 - Bert Newton, actor, TV show host *1938 - Gotz George, actor *1942 - Myra Hindley, Moors murders (d. 2002) *1947 - David Essex, rock and roll singer *1950 - Alex Kozinski, Circuit Judge *1961 - Woody Harrelson, actor *1961 - Martin L. Gore, musician, songwriter (Depeche Mode) *1965 - Slash (musician) (born "Saul Hudson"), guitarist (Guns N Roses) *1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor *1970 - Thea Dorn, German writer * 1970 - Qaboos of Oman, Sultan of Oman *1971 - Alison Krauss, bluegrass singer, musician * 1971 - Dalvin DeGrate aka Mr. Dalvin, R&B singer *1973 - Nomar Garciaparra, baseball star * 1973 - Monica Lewinsky, Congress of the United States intern *1974 - Maurice Greene, United States athlete *1976 - Judit Polgár, Hungary Chess Player. *1978 - Stefanie Sun, Singaporean songstress *1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, actor ==Deaths== *1373 - Saint Birgitta, saint *1757 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer *1773 - George Edwards, naturalist (b. 1693) *1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, general, 18th President of the United States *1916 - Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) *1920 - Conrad Kohrs, rancher *1924 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850) *1948 - D. W. Griffith, film director *1951 - Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France *1955 - Cordell Hull, Secretary of State *1966 - Montgomery Clift, actor *1971 - Van Heflin, actor *1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker, aviation pioneer *1982 - Vic Morrow, actor *1983 - Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899) *1997 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete *1999 - King Hassan II of Morocco *2001 - Eudora Welty, author (b. 1909) *2002 - Leo McKern, actor *2002 - Dr. William L. Pierce, author, leader of the National Alliance *2002 - Chaim Potok, American novelist *2003 - James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) *2004 - Carlos Paredes, musician and composer *2004 - Mehmood, Indian actor ==Holidays and observances== *Egypt - Revolution Day (1952) *Libya - Revolution Day *Papua New Guinea - Remembrance Day *Roman Empire - Neptunalia held in honor of Poseidon *Rastafari movement - Celebration of the birthday of Haile Selassie *Astrology: First day of sun sign Leo == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/23 BBC: On This Day] ---- July 22 - July 24 - June 23 - August 23 -- historical anniversaries nds:23 Juli
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--User:Maveric149 00:00, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) Template:July 23 selected anniversaries - Template talk:July 23 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:July_23_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- My apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but Henri Petain is shown as having died twice (1951 and 1955). User:Uyanga 19:49 23 Jul 2003 (UTC) I removed the 1955 Petain entry; I believe the 1951 date to be the correct one. I also removed John Baratta, Coolest guy in Doylestown from the births list, on the assumption that it was bogus. User:Zoicon5 16 Oct 2003 "1904 - In St. Louis, Missouri, Charles E. Menches invents the ice cream cone during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition." Upon reading Ice cream cone, this can be noted to be false. I'm removing it. User:Radagast 02:06, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
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