July 23
Today is the 204th day of 2021, there are 161 days left in the year.
1829 - William Burt patented a forerunner of the typewriter.
1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died at Mount McGregor, New York, at age 63.
1914 - Austria and Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, precipitating World War I.
1945 - French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the pro-Axis Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason. (He was convicted and condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted to life in prison. On this date in 1951, Petain died in prison.)
1952 - Revolution erupted in Egypt as the military took power in a bloodless coup. The following year the monarchy was abolished and, for the first time since the age of the pharaohs, Egypt was ruled again by Egyptians.
1958 - Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II named the first four women to peerage in the House of Lords.
1967 - Five days of deadly rioting erupted in Detroit as an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation with local residents that escalated into violence that spread into other parts of the city; 43 people, mostly Blacks, were killed.
1982 - Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for “Twilight Zone: The Movie.” (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter charges.)
1983 - An Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel while flying from Montreal to Edmonton; the pilots were able to glide the jetliner to a safe emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba. (The near-disaster occurred because the fuel had been erroneously measured in pounds instead of kilograms at a time when Canada was converting to the metric system.)
1990 - President George H.W. Bush announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed the retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1995 - The Hale-Bopp Comet was discovered by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
1997 - Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was sworn in as president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1999 - Space shuttle Columbia blasted off with the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope and Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a U.S. space flight.
2003 - Massachusetts’ attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably had sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades.
2003 - A new audiotape purported to be from toppled dictator Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to resist the U.S. occupation.
2011 - Singer Amy Winehouse, age 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.
2017 - A tractor trailer was found in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio, Texas, crammed with dozens of immigrants; ten died and many more were treated at a hospital for dehydration and heat stroke. (The driver, James Bradley Jr., was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to transporting the immigrants resulting in death.)
2020 - In response to an ACLU lawsuit, a federal judge blocked federal agents in Portland, Oregon from arresting or using physical force against journalists and legal observers at the ongoing protests there.
Birthdays
23 - Alexis Ashley (singer)
25 - Danielle Bradbery (country singer)
27 - Claudia Salas (actress)
28 - Lili Simmons (actress)
31 - Neil Perry (country musician)
32 - Daniel Radcliffe (actor)
37 - Krysta Rodriguez (actor)
39 - Paul Wesley (actor)
41 - Michelle Williams (singer)
44 - Shane McRae (actor)
47 - Stephanie March (actress)
48 - Monica Lewinsky (former White House intern)
48 - Nomar Garciaparra (baseball player)
48 - Shannon Brown (country singer)
48 - Kathryn Hahn (actress)
49 - Marlon Wayans (actor/comedian)
50 - Alison Krauss (country singer)
51 - Sam Watters (singer)
51 - Charisma Carpenter (actress)
53 - Stephanie Seymour (actress/model)
54 - Juan Pope (actor)
56 - Slash (musician)
59 - Eriq Lasalle (actor)
60 - Woody Harrelson (actor)
68 - Lydia Cornell (actress)
71 - Belinda Montgomery (actress)
73 - John Hall (singer)
74 - David Essex (singer)
78 - Larry Manetti (actor)
83 - Ronny Cox (actor)
85 - Anthony M. Kennedy (retired Supreme Court justice)
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Today in Sports History - July 23
1956 - Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2000 - Lance Armstrong won his second Tour de France.
2000 - Tiger Woods became the youngest player to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open. He was 24.
2006 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Tom Watson in 1982 and 1983 to win consecutive British Open titles.
2009 - Mark Buehrle (Chicago White Sox) pitched the 18th perfect game in major league history. The Sox beat Tampa bay 5-0.
2019 - Nike's Jordan Brand signs 2019 NBA No. 1 draft pick Zion Williamson to the richest multiyear sponsorship for a rookie in history at an estimated $75 million for seven years.
2020 - The virus-delayed and shortened major league baseball season began with the World Series champion Washington Nationals hosting the New York Yankees at an empty Nationals Park; Dr. Anthony Fauci threw out the ceremonial first ball. (The Yankees won, 4-1, in a game halted by rain.)
Today is the 204th day of 2021, there are 161 days left in the year.
1829 - William Burt patented a forerunner of the typewriter.
1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died at Mount McGregor, New York, at age 63.
1914 - Austria and Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, precipitating World War I.
1945 - French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the pro-Axis Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason. (He was convicted and condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted to life in prison. On this date in 1951, Petain died in prison.)
1952 - Revolution erupted in Egypt as the military took power in a bloodless coup. The following year the monarchy was abolished and, for the first time since the age of the pharaohs, Egypt was ruled again by Egyptians.
1958 - Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II named the first four women to peerage in the House of Lords.
1967 - Five days of deadly rioting erupted in Detroit as an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation with local residents that escalated into violence that spread into other parts of the city; 43 people, mostly Blacks, were killed.
1982 - Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for “Twilight Zone: The Movie.” (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter charges.)
1983 - An Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel while flying from Montreal to Edmonton; the pilots were able to glide the jetliner to a safe emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba. (The near-disaster occurred because the fuel had been erroneously measured in pounds instead of kilograms at a time when Canada was converting to the metric system.)
1990 - President George H.W. Bush announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed the retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1995 - The Hale-Bopp Comet was discovered by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
1997 - Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was sworn in as president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1999 - Space shuttle Columbia blasted off with the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope and Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a U.S. space flight.
2003 - Massachusetts’ attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably had sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades.
2003 - A new audiotape purported to be from toppled dictator Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to resist the U.S. occupation.
2011 - Singer Amy Winehouse, age 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.
2017 - A tractor trailer was found in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio, Texas, crammed with dozens of immigrants; ten died and many more were treated at a hospital for dehydration and heat stroke. (The driver, James Bradley Jr., was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to transporting the immigrants resulting in death.)
2020 - In response to an ACLU lawsuit, a federal judge blocked federal agents in Portland, Oregon from arresting or using physical force against journalists and legal observers at the ongoing protests there.
Birthdays
23 - Alexis Ashley (singer)
25 - Danielle Bradbery (country singer)
27 - Claudia Salas (actress)
28 - Lili Simmons (actress)
31 - Neil Perry (country musician)
32 - Daniel Radcliffe (actor)
37 - Krysta Rodriguez (actor)
39 - Paul Wesley (actor)
41 - Michelle Williams (singer)
44 - Shane McRae (actor)
47 - Stephanie March (actress)
48 - Monica Lewinsky (former White House intern)
48 - Nomar Garciaparra (baseball player)
48 - Shannon Brown (country singer)
48 - Kathryn Hahn (actress)
49 - Marlon Wayans (actor/comedian)
50 - Alison Krauss (country singer)
51 - Sam Watters (singer)
51 - Charisma Carpenter (actress)
53 - Stephanie Seymour (actress/model)
54 - Juan Pope (actor)
56 - Slash (musician)
59 - Eriq Lasalle (actor)
60 - Woody Harrelson (actor)
68 - Lydia Cornell (actress)
71 - Belinda Montgomery (actress)
73 - John Hall (singer)
74 - David Essex (singer)
78 - Larry Manetti (actor)
83 - Ronny Cox (actor)
85 - Anthony M. Kennedy (retired Supreme Court justice)
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Today in Sports History - July 23
1956 - Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2000 - Lance Armstrong won his second Tour de France.
2000 - Tiger Woods became the youngest player to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open. He was 24.
2006 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Tom Watson in 1982 and 1983 to win consecutive British Open titles.
2009 - Mark Buehrle (Chicago White Sox) pitched the 18th perfect game in major league history. The Sox beat Tampa bay 5-0.
2019 - Nike's Jordan Brand signs 2019 NBA No. 1 draft pick Zion Williamson to the richest multiyear sponsorship for a rookie in history at an estimated $75 million for seven years.
2020 - The virus-delayed and shortened major league baseball season began with the World Series champion Washington Nationals hosting the New York Yankees at an empty Nationals Park; Dr. Anthony Fauci threw out the ceremonial first ball. (The Yankees won, 4-1, in a game halted by rain.)
