Notable Historical Events on July 23rd
July 23rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
636 |
Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire |
685 |
John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1148 |
Crusaders attack Damascus |
1215 |
Frederick II crowned King of the Romans (King of the Germans) in Aachen |
1253 |
Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent IV |
1298 |
Rindfleisch Persecutions - Jewish community in Wurzburg Germany massacred |
1431 |
G Cesarini opens Counsil of Basel (Ferrara/Florence) |
1453 |
Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion |
1532 |
Emperor Charles V and the Schmalkaldic League sign Peace of Nuremberg |
1540 |
Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary |
1558 |
Battle of Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal of Egmont beat France |
1572 |
William of Orange's troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden |
1594 |
Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis |
1599 |
Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings |
1632 |
Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France. |
1664 |
4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston |
1726 |
Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia |
1745 |
Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides |
1764 |
James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation |
1793 |
The Prussians conquer Mayence. |
1798 |
Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt |
1803 |
Robert Emmett leads rebellion in Dublin |
1812 |
Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napoleon fights Tsar Alexander I |
1827 |
1st US swimming school opens (Boston Mass) |
1829 |
William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter) |
1833 |
Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio. |
1834 |
HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso |
1840 |
Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada |
1848 |
Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts |
1850 |
17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of NY takes office |
1851 |
Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians & US |
1852 |
1st interment in US National Cemetery at Presidio |
1858 |
Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament |
1863 |
Alexandra Park opens in North London |
1864 |
Battle of Woodstock, VA |
1866 |
Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms |
1870 |
Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France |
1874 |
Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa. |
1877 |
1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations |
1877 |
1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed |
1880 |
1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
1886 |
Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge |
1888 |
John Boyd Dunlop applies to patent pneumatic tire |
1890 |
Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord's (67) |
1890 |
14th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Willoughby Hamilton beats W Renshaw (6-8 6-2 3-6 6-1 6-1) |
1900 |
Pan-African Congress meets in London |
1900 |
The Canadian government reviews immigration policy, prohibiting criminals and paupers from landing in Canada |
1904 |
Ice cream cone created by during St Louis World Fair - reputedly first by Charles E Menches |
1906 |
Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa |
1907 |
7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) |
1913 |
Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine |
1914 |
Austria-Hungary presents an ultimatum to Serbia; that A-H demands acceptance within 48 hours make peacekeeping difficult |
1917 |
Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes |
1920 |
British East Africa renamed Kenya & becomes a British crown colony |
1921 |
Chinese communist party forms under guidance of Henk Sneevliet |
1921 |
Edward Gourdin of US sets long jump record at 25' 2 3/4" |
1925 |
NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers |
1926 |
Belgian NMBS/SNCFB forms |
1926 |
French government of Poincaré forms |
1929 |
The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words. |
1930 |
Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed |
1930 |
Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th) |
1931 |
Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia |
1931 |
France announces it can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics |
1934 |
Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 mins, 43 fours 2 sixes |
1936 |
Anthony M Kennedy, Sacramento CA, Supreme Court Justice |
1937 |
Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University) |
1938 |
Bradman scores 103 in 178 mins on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test |
1940 |
"Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins |
1942 |
German troops conquer Rostow |
1942 |
Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad |
1942 |
World War II: Operation Edelweiss (a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus) begins. |
1943 |
Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks) |
1943 |
US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini |
1944 |
Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader |
1944 |
Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin |
1944 |
Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland |
1944 |
US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II |
1944 |
US troops occupy Pisa Italy |
1945 |
Marshal Henri Pétain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial |
1946 |
Menachem Begin's Zionist militant group Irgun bombs the King David Hotel, the then British administrative headquarters for Palestine |
1947 |
1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI |
1948 |
Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President |
1949 |
Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days |
1952 |
General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day) |
1955 |
NY Yankees Bob Cerv & E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
1956 |
Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph |
1956 |
Joe Cronin & Hank Greenberg inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame |
1956 |
The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs. |
1958 |
1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords |
1959 |
VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR |
1960 |
15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
1961 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
1961 |
Bricusse & Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ..." premieres |
1962 |
The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed. |
1964 |
As' Bert Campaneris HRs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd HR on 2nd at bat |
1964 |
Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage |
1965 |
Beatles "Help" is released in UK |
1965 |
Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park |
1966 |
Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens |
1966 |
John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m) |
1966 |
Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!" |
1967 |
-27] 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires) |
1967 |
Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons |
1968 |
Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt |
1968 |
PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane |
1968 |
Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 police officers killed |
1969 |
40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Wash DC |
1969 |
All star MVP: Willie McCovey (SF Giants) |
1969 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970 |
Qaboos ibn Sa'id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa'id ibn Taimur. |
1970 |
A ban on parades and public processions until January 1971 is announced by the Stormont government (North Ireland Parliament) |
1971 |
The British Army carry out early morning raids across Northern Ireland and arrest 48 people |
1972 |
1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched |
1972 |
Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France |
1972 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic |
1973 |
Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St Louis-36 die |
1973 |
Qaboos bin Said Al Said becomes Sultan & Prime Minister of Oman |
1973 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1973 |
Pres Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation |
1974 |
45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts |
1974 |
All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers) |
1974 |
Greek military dictatorship collapses |
1975 |
Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends" premieres in London |
1975 |
LA Dodgers W Crawford & Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
1976 |
42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895) |
1976 |
Balt Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game |
1976 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1976 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976 |
Wings release "Let 'em In" |
1977 |
Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges |
1978 |
33rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
1978 |
Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas |
1978 |
Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200 |
1978 |
Reggie Jackson returns & helps Yankees win their 5th straight |
1979 |
George Brett gets his 1,000th hit |
1980 |
Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya |
1980 |
River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter |
1980 |
Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6 |
1982 |
FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo |
1982 |
Intl Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985) |
1983 |
Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba. |
1984 |
KC Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save |
1984 |
Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984 |
1984 |
Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns due to posing nude |
1986 |
King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres |
1987 |
Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record) |
1987 |
RNI (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM |
1987 |
Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last year's World Series |
1987 |
Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39) |
1988 |
Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton |
1989 |
118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon |
1989 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
1989 |
FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted) |
1989 |
Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith, Arkansas |
1990 |
Rosie Jones (St Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America |
1990 |
South Africa workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested |
1991 |
James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession |
1991 |
Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at & hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5 |
1992 |
Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour |
1992 |
Emperor Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen] of Ethiopia's, funeral |
1993 |
Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley |
1993 |
China Northwest Airlines BAe146-300 crashes at Yinchuan, 55 killed |
1993 |
Chris Boardman bicycles world record 1 hour distance (52,270 km) |
1993 |
NY Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st |
1994 |
All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced |
1994 |
Amy Osmond of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1994 |
Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke |
1994 |
Don Mattingly becomes 6th NY Yankee to get 2,000 hits |
1994 |
Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg |
1994 |
Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in NYC |
1994 |
Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 mins |
1995 |
"Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances |
1995 |
124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St Andrews Scotland |
1995 |
Miguel Indurains wins his 5th Tour de France |
1995 |
Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
1995 |
Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later. |
1997 |
Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin & Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them |
1997 |
The US State Department rules that Turkey's agreement to purchase $23 billion worth of natural gas from Iran does not violate the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act |
1999 |
Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father. |
1999 |
ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan. |
2000 |
129th British Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 269 at Royal Lytham |
2000 |
55th US Women's Open Golf Championship |
2005 |
Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people. |
2006 |
135th British Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 270 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club |
2008 |
Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member. |
2009 |
Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox becomes the 18th pitcher to throw a perfect game in Major League Baseball history, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 5-0. |
2009 |
The Bank of Canada announces the end of the recession even though it remains nascent and still dependent on government stimulus money |
2012 |
A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people |
2013 |
19 people are killed and 22 are injured after a tour bus collides with a truck in Saraburi, Thailand |
2014 |
2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow holds its opening ceremony |
2014 |
44 people are killed after TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashed into buildings in Taiwan |
2016 |
Hillary Clinton Selects Tim Kaine, a Popular Senator From a Swing State, as Running Mate |
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