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
- 1632 –Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
- 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.
- 1881 –The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
- 1903 –The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
- 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.
- 1929 –The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
- 1942 –Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
- 1942 –The Holocaust: 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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