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
- 1821 –While Mora Rebellion continuing, Greeks captured Monemvasia Castle and massacred nearly 3000 Turkish inhabitants.
- 1829 –In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
- 1840 –The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
- 1903 –The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
- 1908 –The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
- 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 –World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
- 1952 –The European Coal and Steel community is established.
- 1962 –Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
- 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.
- 1986 –In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
- 1988 –General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
- 1995 –Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
- 1999 –ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
- 1999 –Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father.
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