Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 23

This is a list of selected July 23 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Farouk of Egypt
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  Comet Hale-Bopp
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  Comet Hale–Bopp
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  Sarah, Duchess of York
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  Flag of the European Coal and Steel Community
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  2012 solar storm
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  Henry Halleck
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  Megawati Sukarnoputri

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1793 – After a siege of 18 weeks, French troops in Mainz surrendered to Prussian forces, effectively ending the Republic of Mainz, the first democratic state on the current German territory.	refimprove
1862 – American Civil War: Henry Halleck was appointed general-in-chief of the Union Army.	refimprove
1881 – The International Gymnastics Federation, the world's oldest international sport federation, was founded in Liège, Belgium.	multiple issues
1914 – Austria-Hungary presented Serbia with an ultimatum to allow them to investigate the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which Serbia ultimately rejected, leading to World War I.	[better source needed] x3, [citation needed] x4, [needs update] x1, [vague] x1, and [expand-section] x1
1952 – Egyptian Army officers in the Free Officers Movement led by Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser staged a military coup against King Farouk of Egypt.	refimprove
1967 – A police raid of a blind pig sparked the 1967 Detroit riot that eventually left 43 dead, 467 injured, over 7200 arrests, and more than 2000 buildings burned down.	refimprove section
1970 – Qaboos overthrew his father Said bin Taimur to become Sultan of Oman.	unreferenced section
1983 – Sri Lankan Civil War The war began with large-scale rioting carried out by Sinhalese against Tamils in response to an ambush by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on a convoy of Sri Lanka Army soldiers.	refimprove section
1983 – Air Canada Flight 143 made an emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, without loss of life after the crew was forced to glide the aircraft when it completely ran out of fuel.	refimprove section
1986 – The wedding of Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew, Duke of York took place at Westminster Abbey.	Andrew: criticism section
* 2002 – On the 50th anniversary of its founding, the European Coal and Steel Community disbanded, and its activities and resources were absorbed by the European Community.	unsourced section
2005 – Three bombs hit the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.	refimprove
Warner of Grez |d|1100	uncertain if he died on July 22 or 23
Apolinario Mabini |b|1864	refimprove section
Michelle Williams |b|1979|	outdated
Bridget of Sweden |d|1373|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 1319 – A fleet led by the Knights Hospitaller sank 22 of 28 ships of the Turkish Aydinid emirate.
• 1829 – William Austin Burt was awarded a patent for the typographer, the first practical typewriting machine.
• 1891 – During a visit of the French Navy to Kronstadt in Russia, the two nations reached a secret agreement on a joint response to any future war in Europe.
• 1921 – The first National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party opened in a house in Shanghai.
• 1940 – Sumner Welles, U.S. Under Secretary of State, issued a declaration that the U.S. government would not recognize the Soviet Union's annexation of the Baltic states.
• 1968 – A shootout between police and a Black power group began in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking three days of rioting.
• 1982 – A helicopter crashed during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie in Valencia, California, killing three people and leading to new safety standards.
• 1984 – Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America, was forced to resign after the magazine Penthouse published nude photos of her without consent.
• 2001 – Megawati Sukarnoputri (pictured) became the first female president of Indonesia after her predecessor Abdurrahman Wahid was removed from office.

• Born/died: | He Ning |d|955| John Day|d|1584| Bonaventura Peeters the Elder|b|1614| Henry Norris|b|1865| Louis T. Wright|b|1891| Red Dutton|b|1897| John Babcock|b|1900| Tajuddin Ahmad|b|1925| Vera Rubin|b|1928|Saulius Skvernelis|b|1970| Judit Polgár|b|1976| Olivia Manning|d|1980| Daniel Radcliffe|b|1989| Lauren Mitchell|b|1991| Hassan II of Morocco|d|1999| Amy Winehouse|d|2011|

Notes

• Sholes and Glidden typewriter appears on July 1, so Typographer should not appear in the same year

July 23: Seventeenth of Tammuz (Judaism, 2024), Birthday of Haile Selassie (Rastafari)

Wilfred Rhodes in 1906

• 1860 – The trial of the Eastbourne manslaughter, which later became an important legal precedent in the United Kingdom for discussions of corporal punishment in schools, began in Lewes.
• 1927 – Wilfred Rhodes (pictured) of England and Yorkshire became the only person to play in 1,000 first-class cricket matches.
• 1942 – The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp began operation, killing 6,500 Jews who had been transported from the Warsaw Ghetto the day before.
• 1995 – Hale–Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th century, was independently discovered by astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
• 1999 – In Tulia, Texas, 47 people were arrested for dealing cocaine; years later, 35 of the 47 were pardoned by the Governor of Texas.

• John Day (d. 1584)
• Bonaventura Peeters the Elder (b. 1614)
• Daniel Radcliffe (b. 1989)
• Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)

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