On this day in History - Jul 23

• 0645 - Yazid I was born (d. 0683). Sixth caliph of Islam.
• 0685 - John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
• 1227 - Qiu Chuji dies (b. 1148). Chinese Taoist.
• 1301 - Otto the Merry was born(d. 1339). Duke of Austria.
• 1339 - King Louis I of Naples was born (d. 1384).
• 1373 - Saint Birgitta dies b. 1303). Swedish saint.
• 1403 - Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester dies executed (b. 1643). English rebel.
• 1415 - Partida da expedição portuguesa (30 mil marinheiros e 50 mil soldados) para a conquista do Ceuta.
• 1503 - Anna Jagello was born (d. 1547). Queen of the Romans.
• 1508 - El militar español Pedro Navarro toma Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, importante núcleo de piratas del Mediterráneo.
• 1531 - Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet dies. Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
• 1584 - John Day dies (b. 1522). English printer.
• 1588 - Battle of the Armada.
  
• 1626 - Sabbatai Zevi was born (d. 1676). Jewish false Messiah.
• 1632 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France.
• 1649 - Pope Clement XI was born (d. 1721).
• 1692 - Gilles Ménage dies (b. 1613). French scholar.
• 1705 - Francis Blomefield was born (d. 1752). English topographer.
• 1727 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt dies. Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
• 1734 - Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini was born (d. 1786). Italian composer.
• 1757 - Domenico Scarlatti dies (b. 1685). Italian composer.
• 1764 - Gilbert Tennent dies (b. 1703). Irish-born religious leader.
• 1773 - O Papa Clemente XIV emite bula extinguindo a Companhia de Jesus (Jesuítas).
• 1773 - George Edwards dies (b. 1693). English naturalist.
• 1775 - Etienne-Louis Malus was born (d. 1812). French physicist and mathematician.
• 1777 - Philipp Otto Runge was born (d. 1810). German painter.
• 1781 - Zarpa de Cádiz una escuadra española destinada a rescatar la parte de Menorca que estaba en poder de los ingleses desde hacia casi veinte años.
• 1781 - John Joachim Zubly dies (b. 1724). Swiss-born Continental Congressman.
• 1793 - the Prussians conquer Mayence.
• 1793 - Roger Sherman dies (b. 1721). American signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1796 - Franz Berwald was born (d. 1868). Swedish composer.
• 1798 - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt.
• 1806 - Félix Arvers was born (d.1850. French poet and dramatist.
• 1823 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché was born (d. 1894). Canadian Catholic priest and archbishop.
• 1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter.
• 1833 - Cornerstones laid for construction of the Kirtland Temple in Ohio.
• 1838 - Edouard Judas Colonne was born (d. 1910). French violinist.
• 1840 - The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
• 1853 - Andries Pretorius was born (d. 1798). Boer leader.
• 1856 - Lokmanya Tilak was born (d. 1920). Indian freedom fighter.
• 1857 - Carl Meinhof was born. German linguist.
• 1860 - José María Vargas Vila was born. Colombian writer.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
• 1862 - José María Bocanegra dies (b.1787). Mexican politician.
• 1864 - Apolinario Mabini wa born (d. 1903). Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister.
• 1865 - Max Heindel (born Carl Louis von Grasshoff was born (d. 1919). Danish Christian occultist, astrologer and mystic.
• 1874 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
• 1875 - Isaac Singer dies (b.1811). American inventor and entrepreneur.
• 1878 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky dies (b. 1804). Bohemian physician.
• 1878 - Hilarión Eslava dies. Spanish composer and musicologist.
• 1881 - Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the assassination of President James Garfieldthe (See the cartoon)
• 1881 - The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, was founded.
• 1884 - Emil Jannings was born (d. 1950). Swiss actor.
• 1885 - Ulysses S. Grant dies (b. 1822). General, 18th President of the United States
• 1886 - Salvador de Madariaga was born (d. 1978). League of Nations disarmament chief
• 1886 - Walter H. Schottky was born (d. 1976). German physicist.
• 1888 - Raymond Chandler was born (d. 1959). American author.
• 1892 - Haile Selassie was born (d. 1975). Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1893 - Karl Menninger was born (d. 1990). Psychiatrist.
• 1894 - Arthur Treacher was born (d. 1975). English character actor.
• 1895 - Aileen Pringle was born (d. 1989). American actress.
• 1898 - Jacob Marschak was born. American economist.
• 1898 - Red Dutton was born (d. 1987). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1899 - Gustav Heinemann was born († 7 Jul 1976). Politician, 3rd. President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1901 - Hank Worden was born (d .1992). American actor and rodeo cowboy.
• 1903 - Ford Motor Company sold its first car. Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
• 1906 - Vladimir Prelog was born (d. 1998). Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1906 - Chandrasekhar Azad was born (d. 1931). Indian revolutionary.
• 1912 - Michael Wilding was born d. 1979). English actor.
• 1913 - José de Aguilar was born in Vila Nova de Foz Coa (d. 11 Mar 1981). Portuguese writer.
  
• 1913 - Michael Foot was born. English politician.
• 1914 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. When Serbia denied Austria-Hungary of their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914
• 1916 - Sir William Ramsay dies (b. 1852). Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1918 - Bueno de Mesquita was born (d. 2005). Dutch comedian and actor.
• 1918 - Pee Wee Reese was born (d. 1999). American baseball player.
• 1920 - Amália Rodrigues was born (oficial date : she always argued her birthday was on 1 Jul (d. 6 Oct 1999). Portuguese singer, fadist (the Queen of Fado) and actress.
• 1920 - Conrad Kohrs dies (b. 1835). German-born rancher.
• 1921 - Calvert DeForest was born (d. 2007). American actor (on David Letterman's late night shows)
• 1923 - Luis Aloma was born (d. 1997). Cuban baseball player.
• 1923 - Cyril M. Kornbluth was born (d. 1958). American writer.
• 1923 - Amalia Mendoza was born (d. 2001). Mexican singer.
• 1923 - Pancho Villa dies (b. 1878). Mexican revolutionary.
• 1924 - Gavin Lambert was born (d. 2005). British-born screenwriter.
• 1924 - Frank Frost Abbott dies (b. 1850). American classical scholar.
• 1926 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
• 1927 - Criação da Associação Portuguesa de Editores e Livreiros
• 1927 - Gérard Brach was born (d. 2006). French film director and screenwriter.
• 1928 - Hubert Selby Jr. was born (d. 2004). American author.
• 1928 - Charles Harrelson was born (d. 2007). American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson.
• 1929 - Fascist government in Italy ban the use of foreign words.
• 1930 - Glenn Curtiss dies (b. 1878). American aviation pioneer.
• 1931 - Viktor Korchnoi was born. Chess champion.
• 1931 - Te Atairangi Kaahu was born (d. 2006). Māori Queen.
• 1931 - Guy Fournier was born. French Canadian author and screenwriter.
• 1931 - Claude Fournierwas born. French Canadian film director and screenwriter.
• 1932 - Tenby Davies dies (b. 1884). Welsh half-mile world champion runner.
• 1933 - Bert Convy was born (d. 1991). American game show host and performer.
• 1935 - Hein Heinsen was born. Danish artist.
• 1935 - Jim Hall was b0rn. American race car driver and constructor (Chaparral Cars).
• 1936 - In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties.
• 1936 - Don Drysdale was born (d. 1993). Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1936 - Anthony Kennedy was born. Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
• 1936 - Shiv Kumar Batalvi was born (d.1973). Punjabi revolutionary.
• 1937 - Dave Webster was born. Led his football team to a National Championship in 1958.
• 1938 - Bert Newton was born. Australian actor and television show host.
• 1938 - Charles Harrelson was born (d. 2007). American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson.
• 1938 - Götz George was born. German actor
• 1938 - Juliet Anderson was born. American pornographic actress.
• 1938 - Ronny Cox was born. American actor
• 1940 - Don Imus was born. American talk radio host
• 1940 - US Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles`s declaration on the US non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1940 - Don Imus was born. American talk radio host
• 1941 - Richie Evans was born (d. 1985). 9 time NASCAR Modified Champion
• 1942 - The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened
• 1942 - World War II: Hitler signed the Operation Edelweiss.
• 1942 - Myra Hindley was born (d. 2002). English murderer.
• 1942 - Sallyanne Atkinson was born. Australian politician.
• 1942 - Adam Czerniakow dies (suicide) (b. 1880). Polish engineer.
• 1943 - Dr. Randall Forsberg was born (d. 2007). American nuclear freeze advocate.
• 1943 - Tony Joe White was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1944 - Maria João Pires was born in Lisbon. Portuguese pianist.
• 1945 - The process against Philippe Pétain begins.
• 1947 - David Essex was born. English Rock and roll singer.
• 1947 - Gardner Dozois was born. Amecan science fiction author.
• 1947 - Torsten Palm was born. Swedish racing driver.
• 1948 - John Cushnahan was born. Northern Irish politician.
• 1948 - John Hall was born. American politician and former rock musician.
• 1948 - D. W. Griffith dies (b. 1875). American film director.
• 1950 - Alex Kozinski was born. Romanian-born American judge.
• 1950 - Blair Thornton was born. Canadian guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive).
• 1951 - É fundada em Lisboa a Liga dos Cegos João de Deus.
• 1951 - Edie McClurg was born. American actress.
• 1951 - Henri Philippe Pétain dies in the Île d'Yeu prison fortress (b. 1856). French leader of Vichy France.
• 1951 - Robert J. Flaherty dies (b. 1884). American filmmaker.
• 1952 - General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser - the real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt.
• 1952 - Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community.
• 1952 - Bill Nyrop was born (d. 1995). American ice hockey player.
• 1953 - Graham Gooch was born. English cricketer.
• 1955 - Cordell Hull dies (1871). 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1955 - Vital Lima was born. Brazilian composer and musician.
  
• 1956 - The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.
• 1957 - Theo van Gogh was born (d. 2004). Dutch film director.
• 1957 - Nick Galis was born. Greek basketball player.
• 1958 - Carlos Lisboa was born. Portuguese basketball player who is considered one of the best of Portuguese players (if not the best)
  
• 1960 - 15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls.
• 1960 - Al Perez was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1961 - Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) founded in Nicaragua.
• 1961 - André Ducharme was born. Quebec humorist (Rock et Belles Oreilles) and author.
• 1961 - Martin Gore was born. English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode).
• 1961 - Woody Harrelson was born. American actor.
• 1961 - Martin Gore was born. English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode).
• 1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
• 1962 - The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos was signed.
• 1962 - Eriq La Salle was born. American actor.
• 1964 - Ed Forchion was born. American marijuana activist.
• 1965 - Rob Dickinson was born. English musician.
• 1965 - Slash (born "Saul Hudson") was born. English guitarist (Guns N Roses).
• 1966 - Euzébio Gonçalves was born. Brazilian football coach.
• 1966 - Samantha Beckinsale was born. English actress.
• 1966 - Montgomery Clift dies (b. 1920). American actor.
• 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 (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned).
• 1967 - En Puerto Rico se realiza el primer plebiscito sobre su status.
• 1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman was born. American actor.
• 1968 - Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurred. During the shootout, a riot began that lasted for five days.
• 1968 - Gary Payton was born. American basketball player.
• 1968 - Nick Menza was born. American musician, drummer.
• 1968 - Stephanie Seymour was born. American supermodel.
• 1968 - Henry Hallett Dale dies (b. 1875). English scientist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1969 - Fernanda Ribeiro was born. Portuguese athlet, 10.000 m runner (Olympics-gold-96). / Nasce em Penafiel, Fernanda Ribeiro. Atleta portuguesa, campeã mundial e olímpica dos 10.000 metros.
• 1970 - Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman.
• 1970 - Thea Dorn was born. German writer.
• 1970 - Charisma Carpenter was born. American actress.
• 1971 - Alison Krauss was born. American singer and fiddler.
• 1971 - Chris Michalek was born. American musician.
• 1971 - Christopher Lee was born. Singaporean actor and model.
• 1971 - Dalvin DeGrate aka Mr. Dalvin, was born. American R&B singer.
• 1971 - Van Heflin dies (b.1910). American actor.
• 1972 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.
• 1972 - Adolfo Casais Monteiro dies. Portuguese professor and writer.
• 1972 - Marlon Wayans was born. American actor.
• 1973 - Robert Anton Wilson, the occultist/philosopher, either achieved contact with extraterrestrials from Sirius or started a long-term period of having wild hallucinations, depending on which way you want to look at it.
• 1973 - Nomar Garciaparra was born. American baseball player.
• 1973 - Francis Healy was born. Scottish rock musician (Travis).
• 1973 - Melinda McCullum was born. American actress, fitness model and former professional wrestler.
• 1973 - Monica Lewinsky was born. American White House intern.
• 1973 - Himesh Reshammiya was born. Indian singer and musician.
• 1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker dies (b.1890). American pilot.
• 1974 - Greek military rule gives in to democracy : The military government in Greece has collapsed and the former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis has been invited to return.
• 1974 - Maurice Greene was born. American athlete.
• 1974 - Terry Glenn was born. American football player.
• 1974 - Stephanie March was born. American actress.
• 1974 - Sonny Siaki was born. Samoan-born professional wrestler.
• 1974 - Rik Verbrugghe was born. Belgian cyclist.
• 1974 - Kathryn Hahn was born. American actress.
• 1975 - Seong Hyeon-ah was born. South Korean actress.
• 1975 - Surya Sivakumar was born. Tamil actor.
• 1976 - Tomada de posse do I Governo Constitucional de Portugal com Mário Soares como Primeiro-ministro.
• 1976 - Judit Polgár was born. Hungarian chess player.
• 1976 - Jonathan Gallant was born. Canadian musician (Billy Talent).
• 1977 - Neicer Reasco was born. Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1977 - Scott Clemmensen was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1978 - Stuart Elliott was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1978 - Stefanie Sun was born. Singaporean singer.
• 1979 - Perro Aguayo, Jr. was born. Mexican professional wrestler.
• 1979 - Ricardo Sperafico was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1979 - Rodrigo Sperafico was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1979 - Joseph Kessel dies (b. 1898). French journalist and novelist.
• 1980 - Michelle Williams was born. American singer (Destiny's Child).
• 1980 - Mollie Steimer dies (b. 1897). Anarchist agitator and American political prisoner.
• 1980 - Sarto Fournier dies (b. 1908). Mayor of Montreal.
• 1980 - Keith Godchaux dies (b.1948). American pianist (Grateful Dead).
• 1981 - Jarkko Nieminen was born. Finnish tennis player.
• 1981 - Steve Jocz was born. Canadian drummer (Sum 41).
• 1982 - The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
• 1982 - Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors are killed on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie when a helicopter spins out of control.
• 1982 - Gerald Wallace was born. American basketball player.
• 1983 - Around 3,000 Tamils were slaughtered by Sinhalese Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka and some 400,000 Tamils fled to neighboring Tamil Nadu, India and a lot found refuge in Europe and Canada. This incident, known as Black July led directly to beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka.
• 1983 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 lands "dead-stick" in Gimli, Manitoba.
• 1983 - Rebecca Cartwright was born. Australian actress.
• 1983 - Andrew Eiden was born. American actor.
• 1983 - Bec Hewitt was born. Australian actress.
• 1983 - Aaron Peirsol was born. American swimmer.
• 1983 - Georges Auric dies (b. 1899). French composer.
• 1984 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in "Penthouse" magazine.
• 1984 - Brandon Roy was born. American professional basketball player.
• 1985 - Luis Ángel Landín was born. Mexican footballer.
• 1985 - Matthew Murphy was born. English musician (The Wombats).
• 1985 - Johnny Wardle dies (b. 1923). English cricketer.
• 1986 - In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
• 1986 - Ayaka Komatsu was born. Japanese model and actress.
• 1986 - Nelson Philippe was born. French racing driver.
• 1987 - Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39).
• 1988 - General Ne Win, effective ruler of Myanmar since 1962 resigns after pro-democracy protests.
• 1988 - Pippa Bennett-Warner was born. English actress.
• 1989 - Daniel Radcliffe was born. English actor (Harry Potter movies).
• 1989 - Donald Barthelme dies (b. 1931). American author.
• 1990 - Kenjiro Takayanagi dies (b. 1899). Japanese development of television.
• 1992 - A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.
• 1993 - James R. Jordan, Sr. dies (b. 1936). Father of Michael Jordan.
• 1993 - Luis de Sttau Monteiro dies in Lisbon (b. a Apr 1926). Portuguese writer.
  
• 1994 - Golpe militar na Gambia que derruba o Presidente Dauda Jawara, sustituido no dia seguinte pelo Tenente Yaya Dieme.
• 1995 - Miguel Indurain torna-se o primeiro cicclista a vencer por cinco anos consecutivos o Tour de France.
• 1995 - British forces sent to Sarajevo: Britain sends 1,200 troops to relieve the besieged Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
• 1995 - Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and is visibly seen with a naked eye nearly a year later.
• 1995 - Manuel Augusto Trindade dies. Portuguese priest and essayst.
• 1996 - Rachel G. Fox was born. American actress.
• 1996 - Aliki Vougiouklaki dies (b. 1934). Greek actress.
• 1997 - Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
• 1997 - Spree killer Andrew Cunanan commits suicide in the upstairs bedroom aboard a Miami houseboat to avoid capture by the police.
• 1997 - Chuhei Nambu dies (b. 1904). Japanese athlete.
• 1999 - ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo.
• 1999 - Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan, is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morroco at the death of his father.
• 1999 - King Hassan II of Morocco dies (b. 1929).
• 2000 - Tiger Woods, at became at age 24 the youngest golfer to win the career Grand Slam with a record-breaking performance in the British Open.
• 2001 - Eudora Welty dies (b. 13 April 1909). American author. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (The Optimist's Daughter -1972).
• 2001 - Indonesian president removed from office. Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly 591-0 impeaches President Abdurahman Wahid and swears in Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri as President.
• 2002 - Chaim Potok dies (b. 1929). American novelist and rabbi.
• 2002 - Leo McKern dies (b. 1920). Australian actor.
• 2002 - Dr. William L. Pierce dies (d. 1933). American author, leader of the National Alliance.
• 2003 - Operation Warrior Sweep is the first major military deployment of the Afghan National Army.
• 2003 - James E. Davis dies murdered (b. 1962). New York City councilman.
• 2004 - 11 years after its destruction, Stari most (the Old Bridge) in Mostar is reopened.
• 2004 - Carlos Paredes dies. Portuguese musician and composer.
• 2004 - Mehmood dies (b. 1932). Indian actor.
• 2004 - Piero Piccioni dies (b.1921). Italian musician, conductor and composer.
• 2004 - Serge Reggiani dies (b. 1922). French singer and actor.
• 2005 - Three bombs hit the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
• 2005 - Ted Greene dies (b.1946). American jazz guitarist and teacher.
• 2006 - Jean-Paul Desbiens dies (b. 1927). Quebec writer and journalist.
• 2007 - Tor Kamata dies (b. 1937). American/Canadian professional wrestler.
• 2007 - Ron Miller dies (b. 1933). American songwriter and record producer.
• 2007 - Mohammed Zahir Shah dies (b. 1914). King of Afghanistan.
• 2008 - Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member.
• 2008 - Kurt Furgler dies (b. 1924). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
• Egypt - Revolution Day (1952).
• Libya - Revolution Day.
• Oman - National Day.
• Papua New Guinea - Remembrance Day.
• Roman Empire - Neptunalia held in honor of Neptune.
• Rastafari movement - Celebration of the birthday of Haile Selassie.