Monday, July 23, 2012

July 23rd in History


1793 - Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.

1840 - The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.


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

1903 - The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.

1929 - The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.

1962 - The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.

1983 - The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

1986 - In London, HRH Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.

1992 - Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.

Famous Birthdays:

1339 - King Louis I of Naples

1649 - Pope Clement XI

1775 - Étienne-Louis Malus, physicist and mathematician

1883 – Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, British soldier

1892 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia

1923 - Amalia Mendoza, singer

1931 - Queen Te Atairangikaahu of the New Zealand Māori


1950 - Alan Turner, cricketer

1957 - Jo Brand, comedian

1974 - Terry Glenn, American footballer

1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, English actor



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