July, 23rd in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Friday 23, 2004:
11 years after its destruction, Stari most (the Old Bridge) in Mostar is reopened.

Wednesday 23, 2003:
Operation Warrior Sweep is the first major military deployment of the Afghan National Army.

Monday 23, 2001:
Megawati Soekarnoputri becomes the fifth President of Indonesia, replacing Abdurrahman Wahid.

Friday 23, 1999:
Hijack of ANA Flight 61 in Tokyo.

Wednesday 23, 1997:
Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.

Wednesday 23, 1986:
In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.

Monday 23, 1984:
Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in "Penthouse" magazine.

Saturday 23, 1983:
Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 crash-lands in Gimli, Manitoba.

Friday 23, 1982:
The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.

Monday 23, 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.

Sunday 23, 1972:
The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.

Thursday 23, 1970:
Qaboos ibn Sa?id, becomes Sultan of Oman.

Sunday 23, 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).

Monday 23, 1962:
Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.

Sunday 23, 1961:
Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) founded in Nicaragua.

Monday 23, 1956:
1956 - The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.

Wednesday 23, 1952:
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Thursday 23, 1942:
1942- The Treblinka extermination camp is opened

Tuesday 23, 1940:
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Thursday 23, 1936:
In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties.

Friday 23, 1926:
Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.

Thursday 23, 1914:
Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. When Serbia denies Austria-Hungary their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914

Thursday 23, 1903:
Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago, Illinois becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.

Wednesday 23, 1862:
American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.

Thursday 23, 1829:
In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter.

Friday 23, 1632:
300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France.

Thursday 23, 1503:
Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moved outside Neptune's orbit, remaining there for 233 years.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/23-july/on-this-day.html


People born on July 23

1989:
Daniel Radcliffe, English actor (b: July 23, 1989) (Biography of Daniel Radcliffe)

1983:
Rebecca Cartwright, Australian actress (b: July 23, 1983) (Biography of Rebecca Cartwright)

1981:
Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum41) (b: July 23, 1981) (Biography of Steve Jocz)

1980:
Michelle Williams, American singer (b: July 23, 1980) (Biography of Michelle Williams (singer))

1978:
Stefanie Sun, Singapore singer (b: July 23, 1978) (Biography of Stefanie Sun)

1976:
Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player (b: July 23, 1976) (Biography of Judit Polgár)

1974:
Maurice Greene, American athlete (b: July 23, 1974) (Biography of Maurice Greene)
Terry Glenn, American football player (b: July 23, 1974) (Biography of Terry Glenn)
Stephanie March, American actress (b: July 23, 1974) (Biography of Stephanie March)

1973:
Nomar Garciaparra, baseball player (b: July 23, 1973) (Biography of Nomar Garciaparra)
Monica Lewinsky, White House intern (b: July 23, 1973) (Biography of Monica Lewinsky)

1971:
Alison Krauss, American singer and fiddler (b: July 23, 1971) (Biography of Alison Krauss)
Dalvin DeGrate, American singer (b: July 23, 1971) (Biography of Dalvin DeGrate)

1970:
Thea Dorn, German writer (b: July 23, 1970) (Biography of Thea Dorn)

1968:
Gary Payton, American football player (b: July 23, 1968) (Biography of Gary Payton)

1967:
Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (b: July 23, 1967) (Biography of Philip Seymour Hoffman)

1965:
Slash, English-born guitarist (Guns N Roses) (b: July 23, 1965) (Biography of Slash (musician))

1961:
Woody Harrelson, American actor (b: July 23, 1961) (Biography of Woody Harrelson)
Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode) (b: July 23, 1961) (Biography of Martin Gore)

1957:
Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (assassinated) (b: July 23, 1957 ; d: November 2, 2004) (Biography of Theo van Gogh (film director))

1951:
Edie McClurg, American actress (b: July 23, 1951) (Biography of Edie McClurg)

1950:
Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born judge (b: July 23, 1950) (Biography of Alex Kozinski)

1947:
David Essex, English singer (b: July 23, 1947) (Biography of David Essex)
Gardner Dozois, American author (b: July 23, 1947) (Biography of Gardner Dozois)

1943:
Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter (b: July 23, 1943) (Biography of Tony Joe White)

1942:
Myra Hindley, English murderer (b: July 23, 1942 ; d: November 15, 2002) (Biography of Myra Hindley)

1940:
Don Imus, American talk radio host (b: July 23, 1940) (Biography of Don Imus)

1938:
Bert Newton, Australian actor and television show host (b: July 23, 1938) (Biography of Bert Newton)
Götz George, German actor (b: July 23, 1938) (Biography of Gotz George)
Juliet Anderson, American porn star (b: July 23, 1938) (Biography of Juliet Anderson)

1936:
Don Drysdale, baseball player (b: July 23, 1936) (Biography of Don Drysdale)
Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Punjabi revolutionary (b: July 23, 1936) (Biography of Shiv Kumar Batalvi)
Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b: July 23, 1936) (Biography of Anthony Kennedy)

1933:
Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (b: July 23, 1933 ; d: July 15, 1991) (Biography of Bert Convy)

1923:
Witto Aloma, baseball player (b: July 23, 1923 ; d: April 7, 1997) (Biography of Witto Aloma)

1921:
Calvert DeForest, American actor (b: July 23, 1921) (Biography of Calvert DeForest)

1918:
Pee Wee Reese baseball player (b: July 23, 1918) (Biography of Pee Wee Reese)
Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor (b: July 23, 1918 ; d: August 19, 2005) (Biography of Bueno de Mesquita)

1906:
Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: July 23, 1906 ; d: January 7, 1998) (Biography of Vladimir Prelog)

1899:
Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (b: July 23, 1899) (Biography of Gustav Heinemann)

1895:
Aileen Pringle, American actress (b: July 23, 1895 ; d: December 16, 1989) (Biography of Aileen Pringle)

1894:
Arthur Treacher, English character actor (b: July 23, 1894) (Biography of Arthur Treacher)

1893:
Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (b: July 23, 1893) (Biography of Karl Menninger)

1892:
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (b: July 23, 1892 ; d: August 27, 1975) (Biography of Haile Selassie)

1888:
Raymond Chandler, American author (b: July 23, 1888 ; d: March 26, 1959) (Biography of Raymond Chandler)

1886:
Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish League of Nations official (b: July 23, 1886) (Biography of Salvador de Madariaga)

1884:
Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b: July 23, 1884 ; d: January 3, 1950) (Biography of Emil Jannings)

1865:
Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (b: July 23, 1865 ; d: January 6, 1919) (Biography of Max Heindel)

1796:
Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (b: July 23, 1796 ; d: April 3, 1868) (Biography of Franz Berwald)

1777:
Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (b: July 23, 1777) (Biography of Philipp Otto Runge)

1734:
Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, Italian composer (b: July 23, 1734) (Biography of Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini)

1705:
Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b: July 23, 1705 ; d: January 16, 1752) (Biography of Francis Blomefield)

1649:
Pope Clement XI (b: July 23, 1649 ; d: March 19, 1721) (Biography of Pope Clement XI)

1626:
Sabbatai Zevi, Ottoman Jewish religious leader (b: July 23, 1626) (Biography of Sabbatai Zevi)

1301:
Otto of Austria (b: July 23, 1301 ; d: February 17, 1339) (Biography of Otto of Austria)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/23-july/births.html