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.
- 1833 –Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
- 1840 –The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
- 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.
- 1942 –Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
- 1942 –The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
- 1945 –The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
- 1952 –The European Coal and Steel community is established.
- 1961 –The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
- 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.
- 1982 –The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005 –Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
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