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In the Gregorian Calendar, July 23 is the 204th
(Two-hundredth fourth) day of the year.

There are 161 days left until the end of 2021!

Quote of the Day…

You leave books in the car and nobody steals them, even if it’s open.

— Esther Tusquets
Spanish editor and writer (died July 23, 2012)

Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

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July 23 – A Day as Today – Events

1431: the Council of Basel, the ninth universal ecumenical council, begins in Switzerland.
1453: in the town of Ghent (Belgium), the army of Felipe the Good crushes the rebellion of Ghent and kills about 20,000 civilians.
1508: the Spanish soldier Pedro Navarro takes the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, an important nucleus of pirates in the Mediterranean Sea.
1781: a Spanish squad set sail from Cádiz destined to rescue the part of Menorca that had been in the power of the British for almost twenty years.
1793: Prussian and Holy Roman troops conquer the city of Mainz (Mainz), ending the Republic of Mainz.
1829: William Austin Burt patents the typographer.
1862: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the United States Civil War Union troops.
1878: in Berlin (Germany) the Treaty of the Berlin Congress is signed, which affects the political map of Europe.
1881: The International Gymnastics Federation, the oldest of modern sports, is founded.
1881: the Boundary Treaty between Argentina and Chile is signed, which grants Argentina legal and absolute sovereignty over eastern Patagonia of approximately 1,000,000 km²-.
1906: anti-Semitic pogroms (massacres) take place in Odessa (Russian Empire).
1914: Austria gives an ultimatum, framed in the July Crisis, to Serbia after the Sarajevo attack against Archduke Francisco Fernando.
1917: British Prime Minister David Lloyd George declares that “peace is possible with the German people, but not with their authoritarian regime.”
1919: inauguration of the Ponferrada – Villablino Railway, built in just 10 and a half months.
1921: in the framework of the Annual Disaster, the “Cazadores de Alcántara” Regiment protects the withdrawal of troops across the Igán River. Thanks to this action, many soldiers were able to get to safety; but the sacrifice was enormous, of the 691 horsemen that made up the regiment, 471 died, which meant 70% of casualties.
1921: in Cambridge (England), Edwin Gourdin sets a new world record in long jump, with a distance of 7.69 m.
1926: Raymond Poincaré is appointed Prime Minister of France.
1935: Senator Enzo Bordabehere is assassinated in the Senate of the Argentine Nation (in Buenos Aires) after being shot by Ramón Valdez Cora at Senator Lisandro de la Torre due to the bribery complaint from the British company Swift.
1936: in Burgos (Spain), a National Defense Board is constituted, the first governing body created in the rebel zone during the Spanish Civil War.
1936: in Toledo (Spain), General José Moscardó refuses to surrender the Alcázar of Toledo, besieged by republican militias, in exchange for the life of his son, who is shot, during the Siege of the Alcázar.
1936: the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) is founded.
1938: in Spain, the 112th Division of the rebel General Queipo de Llano conquers Castuera.
1939: car driver Rudolf Caracciola wins the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring for the fifth time.
1942: German troops reconquer Rostov-on-Don in World War II.
1942: Adolf Hitler approves Operation Edelweiss.
1945: the process against Philippe Pétain begins in France.
1951: in Portugal, General Francisco Craveiro Lopes is elected president.
1952: Muhammad Naguib, at the head of the Free Officers Movement, leads a coup that will force Faruq I of Egypt to abdicate in his son Fuad II.
1953: the Dutch Senate approves the Treaty of the European Defensive Community.
1958: on the Enewetak Atoll (Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), at 7:30 local time (20:30 on July 22, according to universal time) the United States detonates its atomic bomb Olive, of 202 kilotons. It is the 151st bomb out of 1,132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
1959: in León (Nicaragua), the July 23 massacre takes place in which National Guard soldiers fire their weapons at students of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN), causing 4 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
1960 inauguration of bus line 370 awarded by the company Transporte Futuro, bought years later by the company microómnibus, the city of brandsen, the extinct operator of the 388 bus line.
1961: the Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
1962: the first television transmission from Europe to America via satellite is carried out.
1964 – The United States Senate passes President Johnson’s program to combat poverty.
1965: At the Nevada nuclear test site, at 9:00 a.m. local time, the United States detonates its 67-kiloton Bronze atomic bomb. It is the 426th bomb out of 1,132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
1967: the first plebiscite on its status is held in Puerto Rico.
1968: a Palestinian command deviates a plane and forces it to land in Algiers (Algeria).
1970: in Oman, Qabus bin Said Al Said becomes sultan.
1973: in the United States, the American president Richard Nixon refuses to deliver the recordings that implicate him in the Watergate case.
1973: in Bogotá (Colombia) a large fire breaks out in the Avianca Building, the tallest in the city, causing 4 deaths and 63 serious injuries.
1974: Glafcos Klerides takes over the presidency of Cyprus on an interim basis.
1975: in Moscow (Soviet Union), the film Dersu Uzala, by Akira Kurosawa, wins the grand prize at the Moscow International Film Festival.
1979: A tsunami kills more than 500 people in Indonesia.
1979: the new Government of Nicaragua requests the extradition of former dictator Anastasio Somoza.
1980: Spanish swimmer David López-Zubero wins a bronze medal in the 100 m butterfly event at the Moscow Olympic Games, the first ever achieved by Spain in this sport.
1982: in Ventura County (California), during the filming of the film In the limits of reality: the film (in Latin America: Unknown Dimension) a helicopter loses control and beheads the actor Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese children.
1983: King Juan Carlos I of Spain signs the Declaration of Caracas in Venezuela on the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Simón Bolívar.
1985: The United States and China sign a nuclear collaboration agreement for peaceful purposes. Ronald Reagan receives Chinese President Li Xiannian at the White House.
1986: Prince Andrew, second son of the Queen of England, marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
1986: Felipe González is inaugurated President of the Government of Spain with the support of the 184 Socialist deputies.
1987: The United States suspends all economic and military aid to Panama to force the departure of General Noriega.
1992: The Slovak and Czech leaders, Vladimír Mečiar and Václav Klaus, agree in Bratislava on the bill on the division of both Czechoslovak republics.
1993: the city of Ağdam is occupied by Armenian separatists during the Nagorno Karabakh War.
1994: A military coup in the Gambia overthrows President Dawda Jawara, who is replaced the next day by Lieutenant Yahya Jammeh. The constitution and political parties are suspended.
1995: American astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp discover, almost simultaneously, Comet Hale-Bopp.
1997: Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy agree to create a safe corridor between Gaza and the West Bank.
1998: Chinese President Jiang Zemin orders the People’s Liberation Army to renounce its huge commercial empire, as a measure to curb corruption.
2001: The Indonesian Parliament dismisses President Abdurrahman Wahid, accused of corruption and incompetence, and names Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of Sukarno, the former president of the Republic, as his successor.
2001: the Climate Summit, held in Bonn (Germany), manages to reach a global agreement to advance in the reduction of greenhouse gases that cause global warming of the Earth. 178 countries vote in favor of the pact, which was only rejected by the United States.
2002: The Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) imposes a penalty of 18 million euros on Telefónica for hindering competition by applying abusive discounts to business groups.
2003: an agreement between the military coup plotters and international mediators allows the return to the country of the president of São Tomé and Príncipe, Fradique de Menezes.
2003: swimmer Nina Zhivanevskaya breaks the Spanish record for the 50 meter backstroke.
2004: Science magazine publishes the creation of a new vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria, which causes pneumonia and meningitis.
2004: Bosnian Muslims and Croats inaugurate the rebuilt Mostar Bridge.
2005: Spanish swimmer David Meca wins gold in the 25km open water event at the Montreal World Swimming Championships.
2006: Puerto Rican Zuleyka Rivera wins the Miss Universe title at the pageant held in Los Angeles (United States).
2007: in Figueira da Foz (Portugal), the police arrest the dangerous criminal Jaime Giménez Arbe (El Solitario).
2008: Google opens to the public the beta version of Knol in English, a space that houses articles by authors or units of knowledge.
2010: The band One Direction was officially formed with Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan from the reality show The X Factor (UK).
2013: Pope Francis makes his first international trip to São Paulo (Brazil).
2015: NASA confirms the discovery of the exoplanet Kepler 452-b.
2021: Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games open.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

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July 23 – A Day as Today – Births

1649: Clement XI, Italian pope (d. 1721).
1802: Manuel María Lombardini, Mexican military and politician (d. 1853).
1816: J. Laurent, French photographer who worked in Spain and Portugal (d. 1886).
1824: Kuno Fischer, German philosopher (d. 1907).
1833: Apolinar Serrano, Spanish religious, bishop of Havana (d. 1876).
1838: Édouard Colonne, French conductor and musician (d. 1910).
1849 – Seth Bullock, American merchant, rancher, and sheriff (d. 1919).
1860: José María Vargas Vila, Colombian writer (d. 1933).
1864: Apolinario Mabini, Filipino politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (d. 1903).
1866: Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (d. 1950).
1876: Rafael Benjumea y Burín, Spanish politician, aristocrat and engineer (d. 1952).
1876: Ricardo Verde Rubio, Spanish painter and printmaker.
1880: Elías de Borbón-Parma, Italian aristocrat (d. 1959).
1883: Alan Francis Brooke, British serviceman (d. 1963).
1884: Emil Jannings, German actor of Swiss origin (d. 1950).
1886: Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer and historian (d. 1978).
1888: Raymond Chandler, American writer (d. 1959).
1890: Julio Ugarte y Ugarte, Peruvian occult writer (d. 1949).
1892: Haile Selassie, Ethiopian Emperor (1930-1974) (d. 1975).
1895: Florence Vidor, American actress (d. 1977).
1898: Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexican historian (d. 1976).
1899: Gustav Heinemann, German President (d. 1974).
1906: Vladimir Prelog, Swiss researcher of Yugoslav origin (d. 1998).
1913: Eduardo Carranza, Colombian poet (d. 1985).
1919: Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Argentine comic writer and author (d. Possibly assassinated in 1978).
1920: Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (f. 1999).
1921: Robert Brown, British actor (d. 2003).
1922: Damiano Damiani, Italian filmmaker (d. 2013).
1923: Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958).
1925: Burt Glinn, American photographer (d. 2008).
1925: Quett Masire, professor and Botswana politician, president of Botswana between 1980 and 1998 (d. 2017).
1926: Cedella Marley Booker, Jamaican singer and writer, mother of musician Bob Marley (d. 2008).
1928: José «Carrao» Bracho, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2011).
1928: Franklin Caicedo, Chilean actor (f. 2013).
1930: Salvador Sammaritano, Argentine film critic and journalist (f. 2008).
1930: José Viñals, Spanish writer (d. 2009).
1931: Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect.
1931: Víktor Korchnói, Soviet chess player (d. 2016).
1932: Jorge Arvizu, Mexican actor and comedian (d. 2014).
1933: Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, Mexican politician.
1937: Teolindo Acosta, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2004).
1939: Betiana Blum, Argentine actress.
1939: Andrés Percivale, Argentine television presenter and journalist (d. 2017).
1941: Sergio Mattarella, Italian president.
1943: Hugo Arana, Argentine actor (f. 2020).
1944: Angelina Peláez, Mexican film and television actress.
1950: Felipe Solá, Argentine politician.
1951: Manolo Flores, Spanish basketball player.
1952: Jorge Horacio Brito, Argentine businessman, owner of Banco Macro and president of the Association of Argentine Banks (f. 2020).
1953: Ana Botella, lawyer and Spanish politician.
1953: Najib Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia.
1953: María Pazos Morán, Spanish mathematician, researcher and feminist activist.
1955: Rob Dickinson, Anglo-Argentine musician.
1957: Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (d. 2004).
1958: Gladys Florimonte, Argentine actress and comedian.
1959: Pedro Aznar, Argentine musician.
1960: Ruben Garfias, American actor
1961: Woody Harrelson, American film and television actor.
1961: Martin Gore, British musician and composer, of the band Depeche Mode.
1961: Gonzalo Arconada, Spanish soccer coach.
1962: Federico Franco, Paraguayan politician and surgeon, president of Paraguay between 2012 and 2013.
1963: Renato Borghetti, Brazilian accordionist and folklorist.
1965: Elvira Mínguez, Spanish actress.
1965: Slash, British musician, of the bands Guns N ‘Roses and Velvet Revolver.
1967: Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (f. 2014).
1968: Nick Menza, German drummer.
1968: Gary Payton, American basketball player.
1969: Marco Bode, German footballer.
1970: Charisma Carpenter, American actress.
1971: Alison Krauss, American singer and violinist.
1972: Marlon Wayans, American actor.
1973: Omar Epps, American actor and musician.
1973: Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player.
1973: Francis Healy, British musician, of the band Travis.
1973: Monica Lewinsky, American businesswoman, recognized for her affair with President Bill Clinton.
1973: David Etxebarria, Spanish cyclist.
1974: Maurice Greene, American athlete.
1975: Mario Tokić, Croatian footballer.
1975: Alessio Tacchinardi, Italian footballer.
1976: Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player.
1976: Juanito Gutiérrez, Spanish soccer player and coach.
1977: Néicer Reasco, Ecuadorian soccer player.
1978: Marianela González, Venezuelan actress and model.
1979: Perro Aguayo Jr., Mexican wrestler (d. 2015).
1980: Michelle Williams, singer and American actress, of the band Destiny’s Child.
1981: Natasha Yarovenko, Ukrainian actress.
1981: Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer, of the band Sum 41.
1981: Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player.
1982: Paul Wesley, American actor.
1984: Brandon Roy, American basketball player.
1987: Imanol Landeta, Mexican actor and singer.
1987: Julian Nagelsmann, former German footballer and coach.
1987: Oleksandr Iakovenko, Ukrainian footballer.
1989: Daniel Radcliffe, British actor.
1989: Víctor Rodríguez Romero, Spanish soccer player.
1990: Neil Perry, American drummer, of the band The Band Perry.
1991: Efrain Rintaro, Brazilian soccer player.
1996: Danielle Bradbery, American singer.
2015: Seo Woo-jin, South Korean actor and child model.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

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July 23 – A Day as Today – Deaths

1010: Muhammad II al-Mahdi, Caliph from Cordoba (b. 980).
1684: Manuel de Solórzano, Spanish missionary and Jesuit (b. 1649).
1773: George Edwards, British naturalist and ornithologist.
1757: Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer and harpsichord (b. 1685).
1802: María del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva y Álvarez de Toledo, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1762).
1810: Tomás Toribio, Spanish architect (b. 1756).
1825: Bernardo del Espíritu Santo, Mexican bishop (b. 1759).
1829: Wojciech Bogusławski, Polish actor, theater director and writer (b. 1757).
1846: Pedro José Agrelo, Argentine politician (b. 1776).
1853: Andries Pretorius, South African leader (b. 1798).
1859: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet.
1863: Sophie Lebrun, German pianist and composer (b. 1781).
1878: Hilarión Eslava, Spanish composer and musicologist.
1885: Ulysses S. Grant, general and American president.
1893: Absalón Rojas, Argentine politician, governor of the province of Santiago del Estero.
1901: Gaspar da Silveira Martins, Brazilian magistrate and politician (b. 1834).
1916: William Ramsay, British chemist, 1904 Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry.
1926: Fumiko Kaneko, Japanese anarchist (b.1902).
1930 – Glenn Curtiss, American aviator.
1932: Alberto Santos Dumont, Brazilian aviator.
1936: Fernando Condés, Spanish military man (b.1906).
1941: José Abelardo Quiñones Gonzáles, Peruvian military aviator.
1942: Adam Czerniaków, Polish engineer and politician (b. 1880).
1951: Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker.
1951: Philippe Pétain, French military and politician.
1952: Agustín Bisio, Uruguayan poet (b. 1894).
1957: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian writer.
1961: Esther Dale, American actress (b. 1885).
1966: Montgomery Clift, American actor.
1968: Henry Hallett Dale, British physiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1936.
1969: Hallie Flanagan, American playwright (b.1890).
1971: Van Heflin, American actor.
1977: Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan soccer player (b.1915).
1979: Joseph Kessel, French adventurer, journalist and novelist.
1980: Alfonso Carlos Comín, Spanish writer.
1980: Mollie Steimer American anarchist of Russian origin.
1982: Vic Morrow, American actor.
1983: Georges Auric, French composer.
1984: Ángel María de Lera, Spanish novelist.
1987: Manuel Suárez y Suárez, Mexican businessman and patron (b. 1896).
1989: Donald Barthelme, American writer.
1990: José Estruch Sanchís, Spanish theater director and actor (b.1916).
1992: Arletty, French actress (b.1898).
1992: Rosemary Sutcliff, British writer (b.1920).
1993: Luis Edgardo Llosa González-Pavón, Peruvian sailor and politician (b. 1907).
1995: Mario Passano, Argentine actor (b.1925).
1996: Vicente Antonio Rodríguez Redondo, Spanish scholar.
1999: Hassan II of Morocco, Moroccan king between 1961 and 1999.
2000: Carmen Santonja, Spanish singer and songwriter, of the band Vainica Doble (b.1934).
2000: Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish writer (b. 1925).
2001: Eudora Welty, American writer.
2002: Alberto Castillo, Argentine tango singer, doctor and actor (b.1914).
2004: Carmina Ordóñez, Spanish personality (b. 1955).
2004: Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer.
2007: Ernst Otto Fischer, German scientist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973.
2010: Willem Breuker (65), Dutch jazz musician and composer (b.1944).
2010: María Teresa Rivas, Mexican actress (b.1918).
2010: Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b.1916).
2010: Acdel Vilas, Argentine military and criminal (b.1925).
2011: Mauricio Aguirre, Mexican soccer player (b.1987).
2011: Joan Vernet, Arabist and Spanish historian (b.1923).
2011: Amy Winehouse, British singer and songwriter (b. 1983).
2012: Sally Ride, American astronaut (b. 1951).
2012: Esther Tusquets, Spanish editor and writer.
2012: José Luis Uribarri, Spanish presenter and commentator.
2012: Alicia Zanca, Argentine actress and film, theater and television director (b. 1955).
2012: Paco Morán, Spanish actor (b.1930).
2013: Dominguinhos, Brazilian musician (b.1941).
2013: Emile Griffith, Virginian boxer (b.1938).
2013: Jokichi Igarashi, Japanese supercentennial (b.1902).
2013: Maynard Kong, Peruvian mathematician, computer scientist and professor (b.1944).
2013: Pino Massara, Italian musician, composer, record producer and conductor (b.1931).
2013: Djalma Santos, Brazilian soccer player (b.1929).
2013: Arturo Yamasaki, Peruvian-Mexican soccer referee (b.1929).
2015: Mexican 777, Puerto Rican rapper, singer and songwriter (b.1972).
2019: Maxim Dadashev, Russian boxer (b.1990).
2021: Miguel Angel Virasoro (son), Argentine physicist (b.1941).