About July 23
July 23, 2023 is the 204th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 202 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1936 –In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
- 1940 –The United States’ Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 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.
- 1972 –The United States launch Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
- 1982 –The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
- 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.
- 1986 –In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
- 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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