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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1914 –Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will reject those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28.
- 1926 –Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
- 1945 –The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
- 1967 –12th Street Riot: in Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
- 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.
- 1972 –The United States launch Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
- 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.
- 1988 –General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
- 1992 –Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
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