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Events on the 23rd of July in history

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23 Jul 0636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
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23 Jul 0685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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23 Jul 1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
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23 Jul 1298 Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated
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23 Jul 1298 Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany
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23 Jul 1319 A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
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23 Jul 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV
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23 Jul 1431 Council of Basel opens
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23 Jul 1431 G Cesarini opens Counsel of Basel (Ferrara / Florence)
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23 Jul 1453 Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion
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23 Jul 1532 Karel I and evangelical monarchy signs Peace of Neurenberg
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23 Jul 1558 Battle at Grevelingen: General / Earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France
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23 Jul 1572 Willem van Oranges troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden
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23 Jul 1594 Groningen surrenders to Earl Mauritius / Willem Louis
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23 Jul 1599 Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings
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23 Jul 1632 Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
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23 Jul 1645 Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as Czar
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23 Jul 1664 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston
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23 Jul 1677 Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
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23 Jul 1726 Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
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23 Jul 1745 Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides
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23 Jul 1764 James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
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23 Jul 1793 Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
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23 Jul 1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
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23 Jul 1803 Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin
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23 Jul 1812 Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I
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23 Jul 1821 While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Minor Asia coasts.
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23 Jul 1827 1st US swim school opens (Boston, Massachusetts)
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23 Jul 1829 William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
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23 Jul 1829 In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
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23 Jul 1833 Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
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23 Jul 1834 HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso
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23 Jul 1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada
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23 Jul 1840 The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
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23 Jul 1848 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
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23 Jul 1850 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of New York takes office
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23 Jul 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and US
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23 Jul 1852 1st interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio
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23 Jul 1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
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23 Jul 1862 American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
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23 Jul 1863 Alexandra Park opens in North London
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23 Jul 1864 Battle of Woodstock, Virginia
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23 Jul 1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
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23 Jul 1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (The Reds) established
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23 Jul 1871 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #114 Kassandra
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23 Jul 1874 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
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23 Jul 1877 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed
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23 Jul 1877 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
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23 Jul 1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan
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23 Jul 1881 The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
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23 Jul 1886 Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge
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23 Jul 1888 John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire
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23 Jul 1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #405 Thia
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23 Jul 1900 Pan-African Congress meets in London
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23 Jul 1903 Ford Motor Co sells 1st Model A car
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23 Jul 1903 The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
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23 Jul 1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo
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23 Jul 1906 Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa
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23 Jul 1907 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
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23 Jul 1908 The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
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23 Jul 1908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #666 Desdemona & #667 Denise
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23 Jul 1909 M Wolf discovers asteroid #683 Lanzia
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23 Jul 1913 Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine
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23 Jul 1914 Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
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23 Jul 1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
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23 Jul 1917 Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes
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23 Jul 1920 British East Africa renamed Kenya and becomes a British crown colony
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23 Jul 1920 Kenya becomes a British crown colony
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23 Jul 1921 Chinese communist party forms under Henk Sneevliet
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23 Jul 1921 Edward Gourdin of the US, sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4"
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23 Jul 1925 New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
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23 Jul 1926 Belgian NMBS / SNCFB forms
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23 Jul 1926 Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
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23 Jul 1927 The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
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23 Jul 1929 The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
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23 Jul 1930 Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
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23 Jul 1931 Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia
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23 Jul 1931 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
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23 Jul 1934 Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 mins, 43 fours 2 sixes
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23 Jul 1935 Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
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23 Jul 1936 Anthony M Kennedy, Sacramento CA, Supreme Court Justice
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23 Jul 1936 In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
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23 Jul 1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
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23 Jul 1938 Bradman scores 103 in 178 minutes on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test
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23 Jul 1938 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1468 Zomba
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23 Jul 1940 "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
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23 Jul 1940 The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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23 Jul 1940 "Blitz" begins, all-night raid on London
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23 Jul 1942 German troops conquer Rostow
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23 Jul 1942 Treblinka Concentration Camp destroyed
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23 Jul 1942 The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
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23 Jul 1942 World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
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23 Jul 1942 Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
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23 Jul 1943 Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
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23 Jul 1943 US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
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23 Jul 1943 The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
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23 Jul 1943 World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
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23 Jul 1944 Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
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23 Jul 1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
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23 Jul 1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland
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23 Jul 1944 US troops occupy Pisa Italy
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23 Jul 1944 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
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23 Jul 1945 The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
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23 Jul 1946 Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel
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23 Jul 1947 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island
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23 Jul 1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
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23 Jul 1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day)
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23 Jul 1952 The European Coal and Steel Community is established.
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23 Jul 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.
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23 Jul 1955 New York Yankees Bob Cerv and E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch HRs
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23 Jul 1956 Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame
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23 Jul 1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
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23 Jul 1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
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23 Jul 1959 VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR
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23 Jul 1961 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
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23 Jul 1961 The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
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23 Jul 1962 Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
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23 Jul 1962 The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
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23 Jul 1964 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
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23 Jul 1964 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside
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23 Jul 1965 Beatles "Help" is released in the UK
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23 Jul 1965 Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park
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23 Jul 1965 Beatles "Help" is released in the UK
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23 Jul 1966 John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m)
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23 Jul 1966 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
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23 Jul 1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
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23 Jul 1967 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
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23 Jul 1967 43 killed in racial rebellion in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
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23 Jul 1967 Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons
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23 Jul 1967 Race riots claiming 43 erupts in Detroit
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23 Jul 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.
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23 Jul 1968 The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten 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.
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23 Jul 1968 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
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23 Jul 1968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
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23 Jul 1968 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed
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23 Jul 1969 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington DC
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23 Jul 1969 All star MVP: Willie McCovey (SF Giants)
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23 Jul 1969 NL beats AL 9-3 in 40th All Star Game (RFK Stadium, Washington)
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23 Jul 1969 NL beats AL for 7th consecutive time
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23 Jul 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.
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23 Jul 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
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23 Jul 1972 The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
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23 Jul 1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
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23 Jul 1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
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23 Jul 1973 President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
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23 Jul 1973 Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman
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23 Jul 1973 Ozark AL plane knocked out of the air by lightning, St Louis-36 die
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23 Jul 1974 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh
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23 Jul 1974 All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
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23 Jul 1974 The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
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23 Jul 1974 Greek military dictatorship collapses
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23 Jul 1974 NL beats AL 7-2 in 45th All Star Game (3 Rivers, Pittsburgh)
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23 Jul 1975 LA Dodgers W Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
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23 Jul 1976 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895)
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23 Jul 1976 Baltimore Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game
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23 Jul 1976 Wings release "Let 'em In"
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23 Jul 1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges
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23 Jul 1978 Reggie Jackson returns and helps Yankees win their 5th straight
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23 Jul 1978 Israeli cabinet rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
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23 Jul 1978 Phillies Steve Carlon becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
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23 Jul 1979 George Brett gets his 1,000th hit
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23 Jul 1979 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2736 Ops
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23 Jul 1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
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23 Jul 1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
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23 Jul 1980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
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23 Jul 1982 FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
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23 Jul 1982 International Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985)
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23 Jul 1982 The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
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23 Jul 1983 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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23 Jul 1983 Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
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23 Jul 1984 Kansas City Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save
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23 Jul 1984 Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
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23 Jul 1984 Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
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23 Jul 1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
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23 Jul 1986 King Hassan II meets with Israeli Premier Simon Peres
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23 Jul 1986 In London, England, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
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23 Jul 1986 Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
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23 Jul 1987 Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series
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23 Jul 1987 RNI (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
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23 Jul 1987 Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
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23 Jul 1987 Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
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23 Jul 1988 General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
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23 Jul 1988 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton
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23 Jul 1989 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon
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23 Jul 1989 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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23 Jul 1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)
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23 Jul 1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
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23 Jul 1990 Rosie Jones, (St. Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
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23 Jul 1991 Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at and hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5
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23 Jul 1991 James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
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23 Jul 1992 Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour
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23 Jul 1992 A Vatican commission, led by 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.
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23 Jul 1992 Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
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23 Jul 1993 British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed
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23 Jul 1993 Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed
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23 Jul 1993 Chris Boardman bicycles world record 1 hour distance (52,270 km)
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23 Jul 1993 New York Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st
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23 Jul 1993 Agdam was occupied by Armenian separatists.
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23 Jul 1994 All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced
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23 Jul 1994 Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
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23 Jul 1994 Don Mattingly becomes 6th New York Yankee to get 2,000 hits
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23 Jul 1994 Goodwill Games open in St. Petersburg
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23 Jul 1994 Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in New York City
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23 Jul 1994 Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 minutes
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23 Jul 1995 "Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances
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23 Jul 1995 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St. Andrews Scotland
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23 Jul 1995 Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
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23 Jul 1995 Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
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23 Jul 1997 Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
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23 Jul 1997 Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
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23 Jul 1999 Mohammed VI becomes King of Morocco.
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23 Jul 2014 The opening ceremony for the 2014 Commonwealth Games is held in Glasgow, Scotland.
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