July 23
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 Francis Ferdinand, precipitating World War I.
1945 - French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason.
1952 - Revolution erupted in Egypt as the military took power in a bloodless coup, overthrowing King Farouk I. The following the year the monarchy was abolished and, for the first time since the pharaohs, Egypt was again ruled 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, escalating 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.)
1984 - Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
1986 - Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)
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 sexually abused more than 1,000 people over six decades.
2011 - Singer Amy Winehouse, 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.)
Birthdays
26 - Danielle Bradbery (singer)
29 - Lili Simmons (actress)
32 - Neil Perry (singer)
33 - Daniel Radcliffe (actor)
38 - Krysta Rodriguez (actress)
40 - Paul Wesley (actor)
42 - Michelle Williams (singer)
45 - Shane McRae (actor)
48 - Stephanie March (actress)
49 - Monica Lewinsky (former White House intern)
49 - Nomar Garciaparra (baseball player)
49 - Kathryn Hahn (actress)
50 - Marlon Wayans (actor/comedian)
51 - Alison Krauss (singer)
52 - Sam Watters (singer)
52 - Charisma Carpenter (actress)
54 - Stephaney Seymour (actress/model)
57 - Slash (musician)
60 - Eriq Lasalle (actor)
61 - Woody Harrelson (actor)
69 - Lydia Cornell (actress)
72 - Belinda Montgomery (actress)
74 - John Hall (singer)
75 - David Essex (singer)
84 - Ronny Cox (actor)
86 - Anthony Kennedy (Supreme Court justice)
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Today in Sports History - July 23
1866 - The Cincinnati Baseball Club (Red Stockings...now Reds), forms.
1956 - Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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.
2000 - Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open at age 24.
2000 - Lance Armstrong won his second Tour de France.
2006 - Tiger Woods became the first player since Tom Watson in 1982-83 to win consecutive British Open titles.
2009 - Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched the 18th perfect game in major league history, a 5-0 win over Tampa Bay.
2012 - Penn State’s football program was all but leveled by penalties for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal as the NCAA imposed an unprecedented $60 million fine, a four-year ban from postseason play and a cut in the number of football scholarships it could award.
2017 - Jordan Spieth won the British Open for his third career major championship.
2019 - Boris Johnson won the contest to lead Britain’s governing Conservative Party, putting him in line to become the country’s prime minister the following day.
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.
2021 - The Tokyo Olympics, delayed for a year by the pandemic, were officially declared open by Japan’s Emperor Naruhito; tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony.
2021 - Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team, known as the Indians since 1915, announced that it would get a new name, the Guardians, at the end of the 2021 season; the change came amid a push for institutions and teams to drop logos and names that were considered racist.
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 Francis Ferdinand, precipitating World War I.
1945 - French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason.
1952 - Revolution erupted in Egypt as the military took power in a bloodless coup, overthrowing King Farouk I. The following the year the monarchy was abolished and, for the first time since the pharaohs, Egypt was again ruled 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, escalating 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.)
1984 - Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
1986 - Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)
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 sexually abused more than 1,000 people over six decades.
2011 - Singer Amy Winehouse, 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.)
Birthdays
26 - Danielle Bradbery (singer)
29 - Lili Simmons (actress)
32 - Neil Perry (singer)
33 - Daniel Radcliffe (actor)
38 - Krysta Rodriguez (actress)
40 - Paul Wesley (actor)
42 - Michelle Williams (singer)
45 - Shane McRae (actor)
48 - Stephanie March (actress)
49 - Monica Lewinsky (former White House intern)
49 - Nomar Garciaparra (baseball player)
49 - Kathryn Hahn (actress)
50 - Marlon Wayans (actor/comedian)
51 - Alison Krauss (singer)
52 - Sam Watters (singer)
52 - Charisma Carpenter (actress)
54 - Stephaney Seymour (actress/model)
57 - Slash (musician)
60 - Eriq Lasalle (actor)
61 - Woody Harrelson (actor)
69 - Lydia Cornell (actress)
72 - Belinda Montgomery (actress)
74 - John Hall (singer)
75 - David Essex (singer)
84 - Ronny Cox (actor)
86 - Anthony Kennedy (Supreme Court justice)
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Today in Sports History - July 23
1866 - The Cincinnati Baseball Club (Red Stockings...now Reds), forms.
1956 - Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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.
2000 - Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open at age 24.
2000 - Lance Armstrong won his second Tour de France.
2006 - Tiger Woods became the first player since Tom Watson in 1982-83 to win consecutive British Open titles.
2009 - Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched the 18th perfect game in major league history, a 5-0 win over Tampa Bay.
2012 - Penn State’s football program was all but leveled by penalties for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal as the NCAA imposed an unprecedented $60 million fine, a four-year ban from postseason play and a cut in the number of football scholarships it could award.
2017 - Jordan Spieth won the British Open for his third career major championship.
2019 - Boris Johnson won the contest to lead Britain’s governing Conservative Party, putting him in line to become the country’s prime minister the following day.
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.
2021 - The Tokyo Olympics, delayed for a year by the pandemic, were officially declared open by Japan’s Emperor Naruhito; tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony.
2021 - Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team, known as the Indians since 1915, announced that it would get a new name, the Guardians, at the end of the 2021 season; the change came amid a push for institutions and teams to drop logos and names that were considered racist.
