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, 478,248 hours 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
- 1632 –Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
- 1677 –Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
- 1793 –Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
- 1833 –Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
- 1908 –The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
- 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.
- 1927 –The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
- 1945 –The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
- 1968 –Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
- 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.
Who were born on July 23?
- 1906 –Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian nationalist (d. 1931)
- 1914 –Nassos Daphnis, Greek born American painter (d.2010)
- 1931 –Queen Te Atairangikaahu of the New Zealand Māori (d. 2006)
- 1942 –Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian politician
- 1961 –Michael Durant, American helicopter pilot
- 1961 –Woody Harrelson, American actor
- 1966 –Samantha Beckinsale, English actress
- 1973 –Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player
- 1979 –Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
- 1981 –Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
Who died on July 23?
- 1531 –Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, French nobleman, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers (birth year unknown)
- 1757 –Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
- 1878 –Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
- 1955 –Cordell Hull, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
- 1973 –Eddie Rickenbacker, American fighter ace in World War I and founder of Rickenbacker Motors (b. 1890)
- 1980 –Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
- 1980 –Mollie Steimer, Russian-born American anarchist agitator and political prisoner (b. 1897)
- 1982 –Giorgos Gavriilidis, Greek actor (b. 1906)
- 1999 –King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
- 2004 –Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
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