Today in History

Births On This Day, July 23rd 🎂

1989 Daniel Radcliffe
English actor

1980 Michelle Williams
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1976 Judit Polgár
Hungarian chess player

1957 Theo van Gogh
Dutch director

1892 Haile Selassie I
Ethiopian Emperor

Deaths On This Day, July 23rd 🪦

2013 Emile Griffith
Virgin Islander boxer

2011 Amy Winehouse
English singer-songwriter

1973 Eddie Rickenbacker
American pilot, Medal of Honour recipient

1951 Philippe Pétain
French general, politician, 119th Prime Minister of France

1885 Ulysses S. Grant
American general, politician, 18th President of the United States
 

23rd July

1745 Charles Stuart, the 'Young Pretender' landed in the Outer Hebrides in his attempt to win back the throne for the Stuarts.

1974 Greek military rule gave in to democracy. The military government in Greece collapsed and the former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis was invited to return.

1984 A government report into cancer levels near the controversial nuclear plant at Sellafield in Cumbria confirmed suspicions of higher than-normal levels of leukaemia in the area, but said it could not definitely link this to the nuclear plant itself.

1986 Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson married at Westminster Abbey.

1995 Britain sent 1,200 troops to relieve the besieged Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
 
1829
William Austin Burt patents America's 1st typewriter, the typographer
1868
All England Lawn Tennis Club founded in 1877, name later changed to All England Croquet& Lawn Tennis Club. This is where the 3rd Grand Slam tournament, Wimbledon is played every summer
1956
Bell X-2 rocket sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050km/h
1966
Frank Sinatra's single' Strangers in the Night' hits #1 on the Easy Listening Music Chart stays there for 7 weeks. It would win 2 Grammys: Record of the Year, Best Male Vocal Performance
1995
Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye a yr later
2019
U. S. Senate passes the 9/11 1st Responders Bill, championed by comedian, Jon Stewart to ensure the fund never runs out of money
 
On This Day In History, July 24th

2013 Santiago de Compostela derailment
A high-speed train traveling from Madrid to Ferrol derailed on a curve killing 79 people and injuring over 100.

1977 The 4-day long Libyan-Egyptian War comes to an end
The border war began with thousands of Libyans marching towards Egypt's borders.

1959 Kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev
A series of debates, now popularly called the kitchen debates, occurred between U.S. Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev in Moscow. Nixon was visiting a house built as part of an exhibit in the American National Exhibition.

1923 The Treaty of Lausanne is signed between Turkey and the countries that formed the Allied Powers in the First World War
Under the treaty,Turkey had to give up all the territorial claims made by the Ottoman Empire and agree to new borders.

1911 Rediscovery of Machu Picchu
The 15th century, largely forgotten Inca site in Peru was rediscovered by American Hiram Bingham III.
 
Births On This Day, July 24th 🎂

1969 Jennifer Lopez
American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman

1900 Zelda Fitzgerald
American author

1897 Amelia Earhart
American pilot, author

1802 Alexandre Dumas
French writer

1783 Simón Bolívar
Venezuelan commander

Deaths On This Day, July 24th 🪦

2012 Robert Ledley
American scientist, invented the full-body CT scanner

2012 John Atta Mills
Ghanaian politician, 3rd President of Ghana

2010 Alex Higgins
Irish snooker player

1980 Peter Sellers
English film actor, comedian, singer

1862 Martin Van Buren
American politician, 8th President of the United
 

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