July 23 in History

Historical Events on July 23

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

1862 American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.

1885 President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer

1903 The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.

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.

1942 The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.

1942 World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.

1942 Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.

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.

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Famous Birthdays on July 23

1892 Haile Selassie

1941 Sergio Mattarella

1953 Najib Razak

1972 Zinedine Zidane

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Famous Deaths on July 23

1885 Ulysses S. Grant

1951 Philippe Pétain

1973 Eddie Rickenbacker

2011 Amy Winehouse

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