About July 23
July 23, 2025 is the 204th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 209 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 23
- 1793 –Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
- 1833 –Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
- 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.
- 1927 –The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
- 1936 –In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
- 1940 –The 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.
- 1942 –Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
- 1945 –The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
- 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.
- 1952 –The European Coal and Steel community is established.
- 1962 –The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
- 1970 –Qaboos 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.
- 1972 –The United States launch Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
- 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.
- 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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