What are the important events that happened on July 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 23: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 23 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 10, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,721,692,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectapentagon’ day.
Leo is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,232 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 23 Historical Events
- 1840 –The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
- 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.
- 1961 –The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
- 1962 –The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
- 1983 –The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group. In the subsequent riots of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.
- 1986 –In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
- 1997 –Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
- 1999 –Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father.
- 2005 –Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
Who were born on July 23?
- 1773 –Sir Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer, soldier and governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)
- 1856 –Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (d. 1920)
- 1898 –Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1987)
- 1920 –Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999)
- 1931 –Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
- 1957 –Nick Galis, Greek basketball player
- 1961 –Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode)
- 1980 –Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny’s Child)
- 1983 –David Strettle, English rugby player
- 1992 –Amanda Wilson, English singer
Who died on July 23?
- 1692 –Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
- 1727 –Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. c. 1661)
- 1757 –Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
- 1926 –Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
- 1932 –Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
- 1980 –Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
- 1996 –Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (b. 1934)
- 2001 –Eudora Welty, American writer (b. 1909)
- 2007 –Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
- 2011 –Amy Winehouse, British singer songwriter (b. 1983)
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