About July 23
July 23, 2024 is the 205th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 190 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 23
- 1677 –Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
- 1874 –Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
- 1908 –The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
- 1914 –Austria-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.
- 1926 –Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
- 1929 –The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
- 1936 –In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
- 1942 –Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
- 1952 –General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
- 1962 –The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
- 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. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
- 1968 –The 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.
- 1974 –The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government.
- 1983 –Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
- 1984 –Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
- 1988 –General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
- 1992 –A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.
- 1999 –Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father.
- 2005 –Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
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