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
- 1677 –Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
- 1793 –Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
- 1829 –In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
- 1833 –Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
- 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.
- 1881 –The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
- 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.
- 1936 –In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
- 1952 –The European Coal and Steel community is established.
- 1962 –Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1983 –The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group. In the subsequent riots of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.
- 1984 –Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
- 1992 –Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
- 2005 –Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
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