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On this day July 23

2016


Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.

2015


NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.

2005


Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.

1999


ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.

1997


Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.

1995


Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.

1992


Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.

1992


A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.

1988


General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.

1983


Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.

1983


Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

1982


Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.

1980


Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.

1974


The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.

1972


The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.

1970


Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.

1968


The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.

1968


Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.

1967


Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.

1962


The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.

1962


Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.

1961


The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.

1952


General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.

1945


The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.

1943


World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.

1943


The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.

1942


Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.

1942


World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.

1942


The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.

1940


The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

1936


In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.

1929


The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.

1927


The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.

1926


Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.

1921


The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.

1914


Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.

1908


The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.

1903


The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.

1885


President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer

1881


The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.

1874


Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.

1862


American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.

1840


The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.

1829


In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.

1821


While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Minor Asia coasts.

1793


Roger Sherman, a Connecticut Patriot and member of the Committee of Five selected to draft the Declaration of Independence, dies of typhoid in New Haven, Connecticut, at age 72.

1793


Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.

1677


Scanian War: Denmark-Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.

1632


Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.

1319


A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.

811


Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.

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