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Today in History ~ July 23
National Day, in Egypt.
Events0636 - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire
1148 - Crusaders attack Damascus
1253 - Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
1298 - Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany
1403 - Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV
1558 - Battle at Grevelingen: Gen Lamoral van Egmont beats France
1599 - Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings
1664 - 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston
1726 - Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
1745 - Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Oriskany Island, Hebrides
1789 - The Great Fear sweeps through France as the Revolution continues
1794 - Chaos and anarchy are averted temporarily when Robespierre joins conciliation talks in Paris
1798 - Napoleon captures Alexandria Egypt
1803 - Robert Emmett leads insurrection in Dublin
1829 - William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer - a forerunner of the typewriter.
1846 - Essayist and poet Henry David Thoreau was arrested in Massachusetts for refusing to pay a poll tax to support the US-Mexican War. His one-night arrest served as inspiration for his essay entitled posthumously "Civil Disobedience."
1851 - Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians & US
1852 - First interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio.
1858 - Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
1866 - Cincinatti Baseball club (The Reds) established
1877 - First telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed.
1880 - 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich
1886 - New York saloonkeeper Steve Brodie claimed to have made a daredevil plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River.
1888 - John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire
1903 - Ford Motor Company sold its first car a two-cylinder Model A in the United States. Although Henry Ford, considered the father of mass production, produced his first vehicle the "Quadricycle" in 1896, the company was formally established in 1903. [H]
1904 - The Ice Cream Cone is invented.
1906 - Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa
1914 - Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I.
1930 - Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
1937 - Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1940 - "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
1942 - Treblinka Concentration Camp destroyed
1943 - Battle of Kursk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1944 - US forces invaded Japanese-held Tinian in WWII
1945, French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason. (He was condemned to death, but his sentence was commuted.) He died in prison on this day in 1951.
1947 - 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets Quonset Point RI
1947 - U.S. President Harry S Truman made the first Presidential surprise visit to Capitol Hill since 1789. "Give Em Hell Harry"
1952 - Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk I. Egypt (National Day).
1956 - Lt. Col. Frank K. Everest's Bell X-2 rocket plane reached the speed of Mach 2.87.(3 050 kph )
1959 - Vice President Richard M. Nixon flew to Moscow to open the US Trade and Cultural Fair in Sokolniki Park organized as a goodwill gesture by the USSR
1967 - 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2 000 injured 442 fires) considered the worst riot of the summer of 67 [H]
1968 - PLO's 1st hijacking of an EL AL plane
1972 - ERTS 1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite) later called LANDSAT - launched to start its multi-spectral scans of Earth
1973 - Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox served subpoenas on the White House after Pres Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
1974 - Greek military dictatorship collapses
1977 - A jury in Washington, D.C., convicted 12 Hanafi Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March.
1980 - Billy Carter brother of Pres Jimmy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
1980 - Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6.
1982 - TV star Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed when a helicopter disabled by special effects explosives crashed on the set of "The Twilight Zone" movie.
1982 - International Whaling Commission votes for total ban on commercial whaling (starting 1985)
1984, Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs of her that turned up in Penthouse magazine.
1986 - Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)
1990 - President George Bush announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed retiring Justice William Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1991 - The Senate voted to impose a long list of strict new conditions on renewal of China's normal trade status in 1992; however, the 55-44 vote fell short of the two-thirds majority later needed to override President Bush's veto.
1991 - The Soviet government applied for full membership to the IMF and World Bank after the Group of Seven recommended a limited "special association" for the USSR.
1994 - Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg
1995 - In a new get-tough approach, the United Nations ordered the first combat unit from its rapid reaction force to Sarajevo to take out any rebel Serb guns that fired at U.N. peacekeepers.
1996 - At the Atlanta Olympics, Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle as the U.S. women gymnasts clinched their first-ever Olympic team gold medal.
1996 - The Senate passed a welfare overhaul bill.
1997 - Newspapers reported that Netware International Bank had been shut down by FBI agents. The bank had been accused of improperly making loans and collecting deposits over the Internet.
1998 - A second grand jury impaneled by independent counsel Kenneth Starr began hearing testimony about President Clinton's alleged affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
1999 - Members of the Kennedy family gathered in New York City for a private memorial Mass for John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, who died in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard.
1999 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., with Air Force Col. Eileen Collins at the helm, the first woman to command a space shuttle flight.
2000 - Leaders of the major industrial countries concluded their summit in Japan by announcing a campaign to slash the number of deaths worldwide from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
2000 - President Clinton rejoined the troubled Middle East talks at Camp David after hurrying back from a four-day trip to Asia.
2000 - Lance Armstrong clinched his second straight victory in the Tour de France.
2000 - Tiger Woods, at 24, became the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam with a record-breaking performance in the British Open.
2001- Pope John Paul II urged President Bush in their first meeting, held at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, to bar creation of human embryos for medical research.
2002 - A laser-guided bomb fired from an Israeli warplane hit the Gaza City home of Shiek Salah Schehada, founder of the military wing of Hamas, killing him and 14 others and wounding more than 140. Nine of the victims were children.
2002 - Pope John Paul II, though weakened by Parkinson's disease, began an 11-day trip in Toronto where he attended World Youth Day, a weeklong Roman Catholic festival.
Birthdays Today
1796 - Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer
1834 - James Cardinal Gibbons,
1866 - Francesco Cilea composer
1888 - Raymond Chandler, writer
1892 - Haile Selassie [Ras Tafari Makonnen] emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74)
1892 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was born.
1893 - Karl Menninger psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic)
1894 - Arthur Treacher (Veary) (actor: National Velvet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Little Princess, Heidi, David Copperfield, The Merv Griffin Show; fast-food chain: Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips)
1894 - Vincent Sardi (restaurateur: New York City's famous Sardi's)
1908 - Karl Swenson (actor: Brighty of the Grand Canyon, The Gallant Hours, The Hanging Tree)
1912 - Michael Wilding (actor: Waterloo, The World of Suzie Wong, The Glass Slipper, Under Capricorn, The Courtney Affair)
1913 - Coral Browne (actress: Auntie Mame, The Killing of Sister George, Eleanor, First Lady of the World, The Courtney Affair)
1917 - Ginger (Clarence) Beaumont (baseball)
1919 - Pee Wee (Harold) Reese (Baseball Hall of Famer: Brooklyn Dodgers shortstop; coach: LA Dodgers)
1921 - Calvert DeForest (actor: Late Night with David Letterman: Larry 'Bud' Melman; Mr. Write, Leader of the Band, Heaven Help Us)
1925 - Gloria De Haven (actress: Two Girls and a Sailor, Three Little Words, Summer Stock, Broadway Rhythm, Nakia)
1926 - Johnny Groth (baseball)
1929 - Billy Maxwell (golfer)
1933 - Bert Convey (TV host: Win, Lose or Draw, Tattletales, People Do the Craziest Things; actor: Love of Life, The Snoop Sisters; singer: group: Cheers: Black Leather Jacket and Motorcycle Boots)
1934 - Steve Lacy (Lackritz) (jazz musician: soprano sax: Ask Me Now, Pannonica; composer)
1935 - Cleveland Duncan (singer: group: Penguins: Earth Angel)
1936 - Don Drysdale (Baseball Hall of Famer: Cy Young Award-winner broadcaster:ABC's Monday Night Baseball; writer: Once a Bum Always a Dodger)
1939 - Nicholas Gage (writer: Eleni)
1940 - Gary Stites (singer: Lawdy Miss Clawdy)
1945 - Dino Danelli (musician: drummer: group: The (Young) Rascals: Good Lovin', Groovin', How Can I Be Sure, A Beautiful Morning, People Got to be Free; group: Bulldog)
1947 - David Essex (Cook) (singer: Rock On, Lamplight, I'm Gonna Make You a Star; actor: Godspell, Evita, That'll be the Day)
1948 - Coby Dietrick (basketball)
1950 - Belinda Montgomery (actress: Man from Atlantis, Doogie Howser, M.D., Stone Fox, Tell Me that You Love Me)
1951 - Edie McGlurge (actress: WKRP in Cincinnati, The Hogan Family)
1961 - Martin Gore (musician: group: DePeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence)
1961 - Woody Harrelson (Emmy Award-winning actor: Cheers [1988-89]; White Men Can't Jump, Natural Born Killers, Indecent Proposal, The Cowboy Way)
1968 - Gary Payton (basketball: Seattle Supersonics)
1973 - Monica Lewinsky, you know why she's famous for, so we shan't recount the titillating details.
1982 - Schottzie Schott one time dog mascot of Cincinnati Reds
Famous deaths
1373 - Birgitta of Sweden, Swedish saint,
1403 - Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], killed in battle at 39
1562 - Gottfried/Gotz von Berlichingen, German Knight of kingdom,
1568 - Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II, dies at about 23
1757 - Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia), dies at 71
1875 - Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63
1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.
1943 - Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor),
1943 - Meijer de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi (Sobibor), dies
1944 - Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp
1944 - Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed
1948 - Legendary pioneer movie director D.W. Griffith, maker of several silent classics including the controversial "Birth of a Nation," died at the age of 73.
1951 - Henri Philippe Petain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime), dies in prison [H]
1966 - [Edward] Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity), dies at 45
1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82
1982 - TV star Vic Morrow was killed when a helicopter crashed on the set of "The Twilight Zone" movie.
1985 - Bandleader Kay Kyser died at 79 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
1996 - Jessica Lucy Mitford, author (The American Way of Death), dies at 78
1997 - Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versace), commits suicide
1999 - Morocco's King Hassan II, an influential leader in the Arab world, died at age 70.
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