July 23 in history
Events on July 23
Notable events that happened on July 23 in past years.
- 2018
A wildfire in East Attica kills at least 102 people. It is the deadliest wildfire in the history of Greece.
Wikipedia article: 2018 Attica wildfires - 2011
A high-speed train rear-ends another on a viaduct on the Yongtaiwen railway line in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, resulting in 40 deaths.
Wikipedia article: High-speed rail - 1999
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Wikipedia article: Space Shuttle Columbia - 1992
A Vatican commission, led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
Wikipedia article: Catholic Church - 1983
Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
Wikipedia article: Gimli Glider - 1970
Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
Wikipedia article: Qaboos bin Said - 1962
Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
Wikipedia article: Telstar - 1945
The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain, the former president of Vichy France begin.
Wikipedia article: Philippe Pétain - 1942
Bulgarian poet and communist activist Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
Wikipedia article: Bulgaria - 1926
Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
Wikipedia article: Fox Film - 1906
The Amsden Building collapse in Framingham, Massachusetts, U.S., claims 12 lives.
Wikipedia article: Amsden Building collapse - 1874
Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
Wikipedia article: Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos - 1829
In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
Wikipedia article: William Austin Burt - 1677
Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
- 685
The election of Pope John V following the death of Pope Benedict II two months prior.
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