This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
07/23/1339 Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples (Battle at Poitiers) 
07/23/1401 Francesco Sfoza, soldier 
07/23/1659 Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], lawyer 
07/23/1734 Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini, opera composer 
07/23/1735 Johannes Herbst, composer 
07/23/1769 Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer 
07/23/1773 Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer 
07/23/1775 Francois-EugŠne Vidocq, British police detective 
07/23/1793 Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer 
07/23/1796 Franz Adolf Berwald, composer 
07/23/1803 Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer 
07/23/1806 Eduard Marxsen, composer 
07/23/1816 Charlotte Sanders Cushman, US, actress (Lady MacBeth) 
07/23/1822 Darius Nash Couch, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 
07/23/1823 Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, poet 
07/23/1824 Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 190

07/23/1825 Richard Hol, composer/organist/conductor 
07/23/1827 Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway) 
07/23/1828 Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon/scientist 
07/23/1834 James 'Cardinal' Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore 
07/23/1838 Edouard [Judas] Colonne, composer/violinist 
07/23/1841 Edward John Armstrong, poet 
07/23/1849 Geza Zichy, composer 
07/23/1853 William H Gillette, actor (Sherlock Holmes on stage) 
07/23/1856 Arthur H Bird, composer 
07/23/1856 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader 
07/23/1857 French [M J Fran‡ois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years) 
07/23/1861 Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16) 
07/23/1865 Friedrich Aereboe, landhuishoudkundige 
07/23/1876 William Gillies Whittaker, composer 
07/23/1883 Alan Francis Brooke, 1st viscount Alanbrooke field marshal 
07/23/1884 Albert Warner, US producer (Warner Bros) 
07/23/1884 Apolinary Szeluto, composer 
07/23/1886 Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator 
07/23/1886 Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, writer/diplomat 
07/23/1888 Gluyas Williams, SF, cartoonist (Fellows Citizen) 
07/23/1888 Milan Stoyadinovich, Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-39) 
07/23/1888 Raymond T Chandler, US detective writer (Farewell My Lovely) 
07/23/1891 Maurus H Hulsman, head director (Friends of Cura‡ao) 
07/23/1892 Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen], emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74)

07/23/1892 Petros John Petridis, composer 
07/23/1893 Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic) 
07/23/1894 Arthur Treacher, Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show) 
07/23/1898 Mervyn 'Red' Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL pres (1943-46) 
07/23/1899 Gustav Heinemann, German union president 
07/23/1902 Walter Burle Marx, composer 
07/23/1904 Adone Zecchi, composer 
07/23/1905 Erich Itor Kahn, composer 
07/23/1906 Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist 
07/23/1907 Elspeth Huxley, author 
07/23/1908 Karl Swenson, Bkln NY, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie) 
07/23/1910 Pimen, [Sergei Irzjekov], patriarch Russian-Orthodox Cathederal 
07/23/1912 Michael Wilding, actor (Courtney Affair, World of Suzie Wong) 
07/23/1913 Coral Browne, Melbourne Aust, actress (Margaret-Time Express) 
07/23/1913 Michael Foot, MP 
07/23/1914 Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil) 
07/23/1916 Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965) 
07/23/1917 Charles Kerruish, president (Tyndwald Isle of Man) 
07/23/1917 John Stokes, MP 
07/23/1917 Kurt Kreuger, St Moritz Switz, actor (Fear, Unfaithfully Yours) 
07/23/1919 [Harold] Pee Wee Reese, Hall of Fame shortstop (Dodgers) 
07/23/1920 Marcel Maeyer, [de Maeyer], Belgian speed artist/graphic artist 
07/23/1921 Calvert DeForest, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Larry 'Bud' Melman) 
07/23/1921 David Lawmn, CEO (Prestige Group) 
07/23/1921 Harry Hookway, pro-chancellor (Loughborough University) 
07/23/1921 Jerome Rosen, composer 
07/23/1921 Peter Twiss, test pilot 
07/23/1924 Betsy Haworth, deacon/minister 
07/23/1925 Gloria De Haven, LA, actress (Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia) 
07/23/1925 Pierre Baugniet, Belgium, pairs ice skater (Olympic-gold-1948) 
07/23/1927 Al[fred] A McCandless, (Rep-R-CA, 1983-  ) 
07/23/1927 Elliot M See Jr, Dallas Texas, astronaut 
07/23/1928 Leon Fleisher, SF Calif, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77)

07/23/1929 Andrew Rutherford, warden (Goldsmith's College) 
07/23/1931 Jan Torell, Limhamm Sweden, director (New Land, Emigrants) 
07/23/1931 Richard Searby, deputy-chairman (News Corp Ltd-Australia) 
07/23/1931 Viktor Korchnoi, chess champ 
07/23/1932 Alistair Graham, headmaster (Mill Hill School) 
07/23/1933 Bert Convy, St Louis Mo, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw) 
07/23/1933 Richard Rogers, architect 
07/23/1934 Nicholas Barrington, high commissioner (Pakistan) 
07/23/1936 Anthony M Kennedy, Calif, 106th Supreme Court justice (1988-  ) 
07/23/1936 Don Drysdale, Van Nuys Calif, pitcher (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962) 
07/23/1938 Ronny Cox, Cloudcroft Mass, actor (St Elsewhere) 
07/23/1940 Gary Stites, singer (Lonely For You) 
07/23/1942 John de Hont, guitarist (ZZ & Masks) 
07/23/1942 Madeline Bell, US singer (Black Nativity) 
07/23/1945 Dino Danelli, drummer (Young Rascals) 
07/23/1946 Andy McKay, sax/oboe player (Roxy Music) 
07/23/1947 David Essex, rock vocalist/actor (That'll Be the Day) 
07/23/1947 Spencer Christian, weatherman (Good Morning America) 
07/23/1949 Clive Rice, cricketer 
07/23/1950 Belinda J Montgomery, actress (Man From Atlantis, Stone Cold Dead) 
07/23/1950 Blair Thornton, guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive) 
07/23/1950 Kaity Tong, news anchor (WABC-TV NYC) [50] 
07/23/1951 Edie McClurg, actress (Cinderella-1985, Hogan Family) 
07/23/1952 Janis Siegel, NYC, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction) 
07/23/1953 Graham Gooch, cricketer 
07/23/1954 Annie Sprinkle, [Ellen Steinberg], XXX actress (Centerfold Fever) 
07/23/1955 Marisa DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family) 
07/23/1958 Lydia Cornell, El Paso Tx, actress (Sara Rush-Too Close for Comfort)

07/23/1961 Martin Gore, rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough) 
07/23/1961 Woody Harrelson, Midland Tx, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers) 
07/23/1964 Greg Best, Lynchburg VA, Equestrian athlete (Olympic-silver-88, 92) 
07/23/1965 Slash, [Saul Hudson], England, guitarist (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child) 
07/23/1968 Beth Ehlers, Queens NY, actress (Harley Cooper-Guiding Light) 
07/23/1968 Stephane Seymour, model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover-1988) 
07/23/1970 Sam Waters, Camp Springs Md, singer (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You U

07/23/1971 Alison Krauss, Decatur Ill, country singer (2 Highways) 
07/23/1972 Marlon Wayans, comedian (In Living Color) 
07/23/1982 Schottzie Schott, dog mascot of Cincinnati Reds 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/23/ 945 Richarius, bishop of Luik (922-45), dies 
07/23/1373 Birgitta van Sweden, Swedish saint, dies 
07/23/1403 Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], killed in battle, dies 
07/23/1562 Gottfried/G”tz von Berlichingen, German Knight of kingdom, dies 
07/23/1581 Georges Lalaing, viceroy of Friesland, dies 
07/23/1645 Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov, dies 
07/23/1685 Pietro Reggio, composer, dies at 53 
07/23/1690 Richard Gibson, minature painter, dies 
07/23/1757 Domenico Scarlatti, composer/harpsicordist, dies 
07/23/1757 G Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia), dies at 71 
07/23/1793 Thomas Mckean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 72

07/23/1803 Arthur Wolfe, 1st viscount Kilwarden/Chief Justice of Ireld, murdere

07/23/1816 Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68 
07/23/1829 Wojciech Boguslawski, composer, dies at 72 
07/23/1840 Frantisek Max Knize, composer, dies at 55 
07/23/1844 Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office 
07/23/1866 Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer, dies at 83 
07/23/1875 Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63 
07/23/1878 Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer, dies at 70 
07/23/1885 Ulysses S Grant, 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor NY, at 63 
07/23/1904 John Simon, public health pioneer, dies 
07/23/1905 Jean-Jacques, painter, dies 
07/23/1909 Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies

07/23/1909 Zygmunt Noskowski, composer, dies at 63 
07/23/1916 William Ramsey, chemist, dies 
07/23/1927 Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74 
07/23/1930 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviator, dies 
07/23/1933 Max Schillings, German composer/conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65 
07/23/1943 Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), dies 
07/23/1943 Me˜er de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi (Sobibor), dies 
07/23/1944 Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed 
07/23/1946 James Maxton, politician, dies 
07/23/1948 D[avid] W[ark] Griffith, US director/producer, dies 
07/23/1951 Henri Philippe P‚tain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime), dies 
07/23/1951 Robert Joseph Flaherty, documentary film maker, dies 
07/23/1955 Cordell Hull, statesman, dies 
07/23/1955 Harry Haden, actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 73 
07/23/1964 John PML de Vries, germanist/sociologist, dies 
07/23/1966 [Edward] Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity), dies 
07/23/1968 Don Lillis, NFL president (NY Jets) 
07/23/1968 Henry Hallett Dale, physiologist, dies 
07/23/1969 Deli Floyd, writer, dies 
07/23/1971 Van Heflin, actor (Great Adventure), dies at 60 
07/23/1973 Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies 
07/23/1973 Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer, dies at 72 
07/23/1976 Wilhelmina Von Bremen, 4X100 relay sprinter (Oly-gold-32), dies at 6

07/23/1977 Ren‚ de Fox, tailor/actor/composer, dies at 79 
07/23/1979 Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 32

07/23/1982 Vic Morrow, actor (Cimmaron), killed during 'Twilight Zone' at 53 
07/23/1983 Georges Auric, composer, dies at 84 
07/23/1984 Lloyd Gough, actor (Black Bart, Tolsa), dies of aortic aneurism at 7

07/23/1985 Kay Kyser (James King Kern Kyser), US bandleader, dies 
07/23/1986 Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer, dies at 73 
07/23/1990 Joe Turner, jazz pianist, dies at 82 of cardiac arrest 
07/23/1992 Arletty, French actress (Hotel, Longest Day), dies at 94 
07/23/1992 Maxine Audley, Brits actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/23/ 636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire 
07/23/ 685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope 
07/23/1148 Cursaders attack Damascus 
07/23/1215 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king 
07/23/1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III 
07/23/1298 Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany 
07/23/1298 Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilate

07/23/1403 Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV 
07/23/1431 Council of Basel opens 
07/23/1558 Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France 
07/23/1594 Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis 
07/23/1599 Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings 
07/23/1745 Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides 
07/23/1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt 
07/23/1803 Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin 
07/23/1812 Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I 
07/23/1827 1st US swim school opens (Boston Mass) 
07/23/1829 William Austin Burt patents 'typographer' (typewriter) 
07/23/1834 HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso 
07/23/1848 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts 
07/23/1852 1st interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio 
07/23/1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament 
07/23/1863 Alexandra Park opens in North London 
07/23/1864 Battle of Woodstock, VA 
07/23/1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (Reds) established 
07/23/1870 Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eug‚nie as Regent of France 
07/23/1871 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #114 Kassandra 
07/23/1877 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations 
07/23/1877 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed 
07/23/1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich

07/23/1886 Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge 
07/23/1888 John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire 
07/23/1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #405 Thia 
07/23/1900 Pan-African Congress meets in London 
07/23/1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo 
07/23/1906 Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa 
07/23/1908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #666 Desdemona & #667 Denise 
07/23/1909 M Wolf discovers asteroid #683 Lanzia 
07/23/1913 Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine 
07/23/1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I 
07/23/1920 Kenya becomes a British crown colony 
07/23/1921 Chinese communist party forms under Henk Sneevliet 
07/23/1921 Edward Gourdin of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4' 
07/23/1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers 
07/23/1926 Belgian NMBS/SNCFB forms 
07/23/1926 France cabinet of Poincar‚, forms 
07/23/1930 Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed 
07/23/1931 Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia 
07/23/1931 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympic

07/23/1932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1246 Chaka 
07/23/1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University) 
07/23/1938 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1468 Zomba 
07/23/1940 'Blitz' begins, all-night raid on London 
07/23/1942 German troops conquer Rostow 
07/23/1942 Treblinka Concentration Camp destroyed 
07/23/1943 Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks) 
07/23/1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin 
07/23/1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland 
07/23/1944 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II 
07/23/1944 US troops occupy Pisa Italy 
07/23/1945 Marshal Henri P‚tain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial 
07/23/1946 Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel 
07/23/1947 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI 
07/23/1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President 
07/23/1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day)

07/23/1952 Milt coup under general Mahommed Naguib Courtney affair 
07/23/1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph 
07/23/1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords 
07/23/1959 VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR 
07/23/1965 Beatles 'Help' is released in UK 
07/23/1966 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens 
07/23/1966 John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m) 
07/23/1966 Napoleon XIV releases 'They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!' 
07/23/1967 -27] 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires) 
07/23/1967 Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons 
07/23/1968 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt 
07/23/1968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane 
07/23/1968 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed 
07/23/1969 NL beats AL 9-3 in 40th All Star Game (RFK Stadium, Washington) 
07/23/1969 NL beats AL for 7th consecutive time 
07/23/1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched 
07/23/1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France 
07/23/1973 Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St Louis-36 die 
07/23/1973 Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan & Prime Minister of Oman 
07/23/1974 Greek military dictatorship collapses 
07/23/1974 NL beats AL 7-2 in 45th All Star Game (3 Rivers, Pittsburgh) 
07/23/1976 Balt Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game 
07/23/1976 Wings release 'Let 'em In' 
07/23/1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges 
07/23/1978 Israeli cabinet rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas 
07/23/1978 Phillies Steve Carlon becomes 78th pitcher to win 200 
07/23/1979 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2736 Ops 
07/23/1979 George Brett gets his 1,000th hit 
07/23/1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya 
07/23/1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter 
07/23/1980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6 
07/23/1982 FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo 
07/23/1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude

07/23/1986 Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson 
07/23/1986 King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres 
07/23/1987 Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record) 
07/23/1987 RNI (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM 
07/23/1987 Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39) 
07/23/1988 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton 
07/23/1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted) 
07/23/1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas 
07/23/1990 South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested 
07/23/1991 James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession

07/23/1992 Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour 
07/23/1992 Emperor Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen] of Ethiopia's funeral 
07/23/1993 British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed 
07/23/1993 Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed 
07/23/1993 Chris Boardman bicycles world record time: 52,270 km 
07/23/1994 All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced 
07/23/1994 Don Mattingly becomes 5th NY Yankee to hit 2,000 HRs 
07/23/1994 Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg 
07/23/1994 Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in NYC 
  
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