July 23
1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for
New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1829 – In the United States,
William Austin Burt patents the
typographer, a precursor to the
typewriter.
1840 – The
Province of Canada is created by the
Act of Union.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
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.
1926 –
Fox Film buys the patents of the
Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1943 – The
Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
1962 –
Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring
Walter Cronkite.
1967 –
12th Street Riot: In Detroit, 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.
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, to Lod, Israel.
1982 – The
International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
1983 –
Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a
deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
1984 –
Vanessa Williams becomes the first
Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in
Penthouse magazine.
1986 – In London, England,
Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries
Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
1995 –
Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
1997 –
Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker
Intel.
2008 -
Kid Rock was sentenced to a year on probation and fined $1,000 (£501) for his part in a fight in an Atlanta
Waffle House in 2007. The 37-year-old, also received 80 hours community service and six hours of anger management counseling.
2011 - A yellow Ferrari previously owned by
Eric Clapton sold for £66,500 at auction. The rare 2003
Ferrari 575 Maranello, which had only 10,000 miles on the clock, was snapped up by a private buyer at a sale at the Classic Car Sale at Silverstone, Northamptonshire, England.
2015 – NASA announces discovery of
Kepler-452b by the
Kepler space telescope.
Births
1884 – Emil Jannings; 1885 – Georges V. Matchabelli (Prince Matchabelli perfume); 1888 – Raymond Chandler; 1892 – Haile Selassie; 1901 – Hank Worden ('Mose' in
The Searchers, appeared in 17 John Wayne movies); 1918 – Pee Wee Reese; 1921 – Calvert DeForest ('Larry Bud Melman' on
Late Night with David Letterman &
Late Show with David Letterman); 1933 – Bert Convy; 1936 – Don Drysdale; 1938 – Ronny Cox;
1938 – Charles Harrelson (American murderer, father of Woody Harrelson); 1940 – Don Imus; 1943 – Tony Joe White♪ ♫; 1947 – David Essex♪ ♫;
1961 – Woody Harrelson; 1962 – Eriq La Salle; 1964 – Nick Menza
; 1965 – Slash (real name Saul Hudson)
; 1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman; 1968 – Stephanie Seymour; 1970 – Charisma Carpenter ('Cordelia' on
Buffy the Vampire Slayer); 1971 – Alison Krauss♪ ♫
; 1972 – Marlon Wayans; 1973 – Nomar Garciaparra; 1973 – Monica Lewinsky; 1989 – Daniel Radcliffe
Deaths
1875 – Isaac Singer (Singer sewing machines); 1885 – Ulysses S. Grant (18th POTUS); 1930 – Glenn Curtiss; 1948 – D. W. Griffith; 1955 – Cordell Hull; 1966 – Montgomery Clift; 1971 – Van Heflin; 1973 – Eddie Rickenbacker; 1980 – Keith Godchaux
; 1982 – Vic Morrow; 2001 – Eudora Welty; 2011 – Amy Winehouse♪ ♫; 2012 – Sally Ride