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

  • 1632 –
    Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
  • 1677 –
    Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
  • 1829 –
    In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
  • 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.
  • 1926 –
    Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • 1929 –
    The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
  • 1936 –
    In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
  • 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.
  • 1968 –
    Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
  • 1972 –
    The United States launch Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
  • 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.
  • 1995 –
    Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
  • 1997 –
    Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
  • 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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