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2008-07-23
Celebration of the birthday of Haile Selassie (Rastafari movement)
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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2009-01-6
Births
1301-07-23 - Duke Otto of Austria (d. 1339)
1339-07-23 - King Louis I of Naples (d. 1384)
1626-07-23 - Sabbatai Zevi, Ottoman Jewish religious leader
1649-07-23 - Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
1705-07-23 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752)
1734-07-23 - Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, Italian composer (d. 1786)
1775-07-23 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
1777-07-23 - Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
1796-07-23 - Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
1838-07-23 - Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (d. 1910)
1856-07-23 - Lokmanya Tilak, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1920)
1865-07-23 - Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (d. 1919)
1884-07-23 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950)
1886-07-23 - Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish League of Nations official (d. 1978)
1886-07-23 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
1888-07-23 - Raymond Chandler, American-born author (d. 1959)
1892-07-23 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
1894-07-23 - Arthur Treacher, English character actor (d. 1975)
1895-07-23 - Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
1898-07-23 - Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
1898-07-23 - Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1987)
1899-07-23 - Gustav Heinemann, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1976)
1901-07-23 - Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992)
1906-07-23 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1912-07-23 - Michael Wilding, English actor (d. 1979)
1913-07-23 - Michael Foot, English politician
1918-07-23 - Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1918-07-23 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1921-07-23 - Calvert DeForest, American actor
1923-07-23 - Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (d. 1997)
1928-07-23 - Hubert Selby Jr., American author (d. 2004)
1928-07-23 - Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson
1931-07-23 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori Queen (d. 2006)
1933-07-23 - Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (d. 1991)
1936-07-23 - Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Punjabi revolutionary (d. 1973)
1936-07-23 - Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1936-07-23 - Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1938-07-23 - Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress
1938-07-23 - Götz George, German actor
1938-07-23 - Bert Newton, Australian actor and television show host
1938-07-23 - Ronny Cox, American actor
1939-07-23 - Terence Stamp, English actor
1940-07-23 - Don Imus, American talk radio host
1942-07-23 - Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)
1943-07-23 - Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter
1947-07-23 - Gardner Dozois, American author
1947-07-23 - David Essex, English singer
1948-07-23 - John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
1950-07-23 - Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge
1951-07-23 - Edie McClurg, American actress
1957-07-23 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (assassinated) (d. 2004)
1961-07-23 - Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode)
1961-07-23 - Woody Harrelson, American actor
1962-07-23 - Eriq La Salle, American actor
1964-07-23 - Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist
1965-07-23 - Rob Dickinson, English musician
1965-07-23 - Slash, English-born American guitarist (ex-Guns N' Roses)
1967-07-23 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
1968-07-23 - Nick Menza, American musician, drummer
1968-07-23 - Gary Payton, American basketball player
1968-07-23 - Stephanie Seymour, American supermodel
1970-07-23 - Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1970-07-23 - Thea Dorn, German writer
1971-07-23 - Dalvin DeGrate, American singer
1971-07-23 - Alison Krauss, American singer and fiddler
1972-07-23 - Marlon Wayans, American actor
1973-07-23 - Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player
1973-07-23 - Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis)
1973-07-23 - Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
1973-07-23 - Himesh Reshammiya, Indian singer and musician
1973-07-23 - Omar Epps, American actor
1974-07-23 - Terry Glenn, American football player
1974-07-23 - Maurice Greene, American athlete
1974-07-23 - Stephanie March, American actress
1974-07-23 - Sonny Siaki, Samoan-born professional wrestler
1974-07-23 - Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist
1975-07-23 - Sung Hyun-ah, South Korean actress
1975-07-23 - Surya Sivakumar, Tamil actor
1976-07-23 - Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
1977-07-23 - Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
1978-07-23 - Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
1978-07-23 - Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer
1980-07-23 - Michelle Williams, American singer
1981-07-23 - Steve Jocz (aka Stevo 32), Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
1983-07-23 - Bec Hewitt, Australian actress
1983-07-23 - Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
1989-07-23 - Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
Bizarre
2006-07-23 - National Hot Dog Day
2006-07-23 - Vanilla Ice Cream Day
2007-07-23 - National Hot Dog Day
2007-07-23 - Vanilla Ice Cream Day
Deaths
1227-07-23 - Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (b. 1148)
1373-07-23 - Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
1403-07-23 - Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (born 1343)
1531-07-23 - Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
1584-07-23 - John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
1692-07-23 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
1727-07-23 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1757-07-23 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
1764-07-23 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703)
1773-07-23 - George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
1781-07-23 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1793-07-23 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721)
1853-07-23 - Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)
1878-07-23 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
1885-07-23 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1916-07-23 - Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1920-07-23 - Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
1923-07-23 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
1924-07-23 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
1930-07-23 - Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (b. 1878)
1942-07-23 - Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
1948-07-23 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (b. 1875)
1951-07-23 - Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
1951-07-23 - Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (b. 1884)
1955-07-23 - Cordell Hull, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
1966-07-23 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
1968-07-23 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
1971-07-23 - Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
1973-07-23 - Eddie Rickenbacker, American pilot (b. 1890)
1980-07-23 - Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1980-07-23 - Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
1982-07-23 - Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
1983-07-23 - Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
1985-07-23 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
1989-07-23 - Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
1993-07-23 - James Jordan, father of Michael Jordan (b. 1936)
1997-07-23 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
1999-07-23 - King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
2001-07-23 - Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909)
2002-07-23 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
2002-07-23 - Dr. William L. Pierce, American author and activist (b. 1933)
2002-07-23 - Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
2003-07-23 - James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
2004-07-23 - Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2004-07-23 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
2004-07-23 - Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
Declared
2007-07-23 - Papua New Guinea - Remembrance Day
2007-07-23 - Rastafari movement - Celebration of the birthday of Haile Selassie
Events
1997-07-23 - Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
1997-07-23 - Spree killer Andrew Cunanan commits suicide in the upstairs bedroom aboard a Miami houseboat to avoid capture by the police
1999-07-23 - Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan, is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morroco at the death of his father.
1999-07-23 - ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo.
2001-07-23 - Megawati Soekarnoputri becomes the fifth President of Indonesia, replacing Abdurrahman Wahid.
2003-07-23 - Operation Warrior Sweep is the first major military deployment of the Afghan National Army.
2004-07-23 - Eleven years after its destruction, Stari most (the Old Bridge) in Mostar is reopened.
2005-07-23 - Three bombs hit the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
1632-07-23 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France.
1793-07-23 - the Prussians conquer Mayence.
1829-07-23 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter.
1862-07-23 - American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
1874-07-23 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
1881-07-23 - The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, was founded.
1884-07-23 - The courier of July 23, 1884 recorded the first tennis tournaments held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall.
1903-07-23 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
1904-07-23 - Probably the first Ice cream cone was sold at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.
1914-07-23 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. When Serbia denies Austria-Hungary their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914
1926-07-23 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1929-07-23 - Fascist government in Italy ban the use of foreign words.
1936-07-23 - In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties.
1940-07-23 - US Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles`s declaration on the US non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1942-07-23 - The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened
1942-07-23 - World War II: Hitler signed the Operation Edelweiss.
1945-07-23 - The process against Philippe Pétain begins.
1952-07-23 - Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community.
1952-07-23 - General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser - the real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt.
1956-07-23 - The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.
1961-07-23 - Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) founded in Nicaragua.
1962-07-23 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
1962-07-23 - The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos was signed.
1967-07-23 - 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 (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned).
1970-07-23 - Qaboos ibn Sa’id, becomes Sultan of Oman.
1972-07-23 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.
1982-07-23 - The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
1982-07-23 - Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors are killed on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie when a helicopter spins out of control.
1983-07-23 - Black July began in Sri Lanka.
1983-07-23 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 lands "dead-stick" in Gimli, Manitoba.
1984-07-23 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
1986-07-23 - In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
1988-07-23 - General Ne Win, effective ruler of Myanmar since 1962 resigns after pro-democracy protests.
1992-07-23 - A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and not-married couples.
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