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Day Of The Week: July 23
July 23, 2025 is the 204th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Historical Events: July 23
- 1677 –Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
- 1874 –Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
- 1926 –Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
- 1942 –World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
- 1962 –Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
- 1970 –Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur initiating massive reforms ;modernisation programs and end to a decade long civil war.
- 1974 –The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government.
- 1983 –The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group. In the subsequent riots of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.
- 1992 –A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.
- 1997 –Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
Who were born on July 23?
- 1649 –Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
- 1886 –Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
- 1899 –Gustav Heinemann, German politician (d. 1976)
- 1900 –John Babcock, Canadian World War I veteran (d. 2010)
- 1931 –Claude Fournier, French Canadian film director and screenwriter
- 1942 –Madeline Bell, American-British singer
- 1947 –Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer and editor
- 1957 –Jo Brand, British comedian
- 1968 –Gary Payton, American basketball player
- 1971 –Dalvin DeGrate, American singer
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