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Birthday July 23, 1834 James Cardinal Gibbons |
Birthday July 23, 1888 Raymond Chandler is born |
Birthday July 23, 1892 Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74). |
Birthday July 23, 1919 Pee Wee Reese, baseball player. |
Birthday July 23, 1925 Gloria DeHaven, in Los Angeles, Actress |
Birthday July 23, 1936 Don Drysdale, Dodger pitcher |
History July 23, 1793 Connecticut Patriot Roger Sherman dies |
History July 23, 1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria Egypt. |
History July 23, 1803 Robert Emmett's insurrection in Dublin. |
History July 23, 1829 Typewriter patented |
History July 23, 1852 1st interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio |
History July 23, 1862 Halleck takes command of the Union army |
History July 23, 1866 Cincinatti Baseball club (The Reds) established |
History July 23, 1877 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii is completed |
History July 23, 1878 Black Bart strikes again |
History July 23, 1885 Former President Ulysses S. Grant dies |
History July 23, 1904 Ice cream cone invented |
History July 23, 1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia |
History July 23, 1918 A string of mysterious deaths surrounds a Nebraska woman |
History July 23, 1920 Montana rancher Conrad Kohrs dies |
History July 23, 1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced |
History July 23, 1944 US forces invaded japanese-held Tinian in WWII |
History July 23, 1947 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets Quonset Point RI |
History July 23, 1951 Petain, leader of the Vichy government, dies |
History July 23, 1952 Military seizes power in Egypt |
History July 23, 1952 Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day). |
History July 23, 1962 An accord on Laos is reached |
History July 23, 1964 Taylor and Khanh have heated discussions in Saigon |
History July 23, 1965 Johnson urged to declare a state of national emergency |
History July 23, 1967 The 12th Street riot |
History July 23, 1968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an EL AL plane |
History July 23, 1972 ERTS 1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite) later called LANDSAT - launched to start its multi-spectral scans of Earth |
History July 23, 1976 Legionnaires gather in Philly |
History July 23, 1980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6. |
History July 23, 1982 Actor and two children killed on Twilight Zone set |
History July 23, 1988 Guns N' Roses make popular breakthrough with Sweet Child O' Mine |
History July 23, 1996 U.S. women take home gymnastics gold |
History July 23, 2007 Honda produces 6 millionth Civic in North America |