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 204^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 10, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,220,480 minutes 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 ‘dihectatetragon’ 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 209 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 4,597 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 23 Historical Events

• 1833 –
  Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
• 1874 –
  Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
• 1942 –
  The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
• 1952 –
  General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
• 1968 –
  The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.
• 1970 –
  Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur initiating massive reforms ;modernisation programs and end to a decade long civil war.
• 1982 –
  The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
• 1984 –
  Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
• 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?

• 1885 –
  Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-born American perfumer (d. 1935)
• 1892 –
  Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
• 1901 –
  Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992)
• 1906 –
  Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian nationalist (d. 1931)
• 1918 –
  Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1927 –
  Gérard Brach, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1938 –
  Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson (d. 2007)
• 1943 –
  Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
• 1950 –
  Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge
• 1967 –
  Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor

Who died on July 23?

• 1373 –
  Bridget of Sweden, Swedish mystic and saint, founder of the Bridgettine Order (b. 1303)
• 1403 –
  Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
• 1562 –
  Gotz von Berlichingen, German Imperial Knight and mercenary (b. 1480)
• 1727 –
  Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. c. 1661)
• 1920 –
  Conrad Kohrs, German-born American rancher (b. 1835)
• 1930 –
  Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (b. 1878)
• 1941 –
  George Lyman Kittredge, American English literature scholar and Harvard University professor (b. 1860)
• 1971 –
  Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1997 –
  Chūhei Nambu, Japanese long and triple jumper (b. 1904)
• 2005 –
  Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)