July 23
1829 - William Burt patented a forerunner of the typewriter.
1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died at Mount McGregor, New York at age 63.
1903 - The Ford Motor Company sold its first car, a Model A, for $850.
1914 - Austria and Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, precipitating World War I.
1945 - French Vichy government leader Marshal Henri Petain went on trial for treason.
1952 - Revolution erupted in Egypt as the military took power in a bloodless coup. The following year, the monarchy was abolished and, for the first time since the age of the pharaohs, Egypt was again ruled by Egyptians.
1958 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II named the first four woman to peerage in the House of Lords.
1967 - The first of five days of deadly rioting erupted in Detroit as an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation with local residents, escalating into violence that spread into other parts of the city and resulting in 43 deaths.
1982 - Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for "Twilight Zone: The Movie." (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter charges.)
1983 - An Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel while flying from Montreal to Edmonton; the pilots were able to glide the jetliner to a safe emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba. (The near-disaster occurred because the fuel had been erroneously measured in pounds instead of kilograms at a time when Canada was converting to the metric system.)
1990 - President George H.W. Bush announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed the retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1995 - The Hale-Bopp comet was discovered by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
1997 - Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was sworn in as president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1997 - The search for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, ended as police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach, an apparent suicide.
1999 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted off with the world's most powerful X-ray telescope and Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a U.S. space flight.
2003 - The Massachusetts Attorney General issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese had probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades.
2011 - Singer Amy Winehouse, age 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.
2019 - Boris Johnson was the contest to lead Britain's governing Conservative Party, putting him in line to become the country's prime minister the following day.
Birthdays
22 - Abby Donnelly (actress)
35 - Daniel Radcliffe (actor)
42 - Paul Wesley (actor)
45 - Michelle Williams (singer)
50 - Stephanie March (actress)
51 - Monica Lewinsky (former White House intern/reality star)
51 - Kathryn Hahn (actress)
52 - Marlon Wayans (actor/comedian)
53 - Alison Krauss (singer)
54 - Charisma Carpenter (actress)
56 - Stephanie Seymour (actress/model)
56 - Gary Payton (basketball player)
59 - Slash (musician)
62 - Eriq Lasalle (actor)
63 - Woody Harrelson (actor)
77 - David Essex (singer)
86 - Ronny Cox (actor)
88 - Anthony M. Kennedy (retired Supreme Court Justice)
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Today in Sports History - July 23
1866 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings (Reds) baseball club is formed.
1956 - Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1989 - American Greg LeMond wins the Tour de France.
1995 - John Daly wins the British Open, his second major.
1996 - At the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games, Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle as the U.S. women's gymnastics team clinched their first-ever Olympic team gold medal.
2000 - Lance Armstrong wins his second Tour de France.
2000 - Tiger Woods, at age 24, becomes the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open.
2006 - Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer since Tom Watson in 1982 and 1983 to win back-to-back British Open titles.
2009 - Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox throws the 18th perfect game in MLB history in a 5-0 win over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
2012 - Penn State's football program was all but leveled by penalties for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal as the NCAA imposed an unprecedented $60 million fine, a four-year ban from postseason play and a cut in the number of football scholarships it could award.
2019 - Nike's Jordan Brand signs 2019 NBA No. 1 draft pick Zion Williamson to the richest multi-year sponsorship deal for a rookie in history, estimated at $75 million for 7 years.
2021 - Cleveland's Major League Baseball team, known as the Indians since 1915, announced that it would be known as the Guardians following the 2021 season; the change came amid a push for institutions and teams to drop logos and names that were considered racist and offensive. The team took the name Guardians after the Guardians of Traffic, eight large Art Deco statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge, located near their playing field.
2021 - After a year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Summer Olympic Games open in Tokyo, Japan.
2023 - Scott Rolen and Fred McGriff are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1829 - William Burt patented a forerunner of the typewriter.
1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died at Mount McGregor, New York at age 63.
1903 - The Ford Motor Company sold its first car, a Model A, for $850.
1914 - Austria and Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, precipitating World War I.
1945 - French Vichy government leader Marshal Henri Petain went on trial for treason.
1952 - Revolution erupted in Egypt as the military took power in a bloodless coup. The following year, the monarchy was abolished and, for the first time since the age of the pharaohs, Egypt was again ruled by Egyptians.
1958 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II named the first four woman to peerage in the House of Lords.
1967 - The first of five days of deadly rioting erupted in Detroit as an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation with local residents, escalating into violence that spread into other parts of the city and resulting in 43 deaths.
1982 - Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for "Twilight Zone: The Movie." (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter charges.)
1983 - An Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel while flying from Montreal to Edmonton; the pilots were able to glide the jetliner to a safe emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba. (The near-disaster occurred because the fuel had been erroneously measured in pounds instead of kilograms at a time when Canada was converting to the metric system.)
1990 - President George H.W. Bush announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed the retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1995 - The Hale-Bopp comet was discovered by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
1997 - Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was sworn in as president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1997 - The search for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, ended as police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach, an apparent suicide.
1999 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted off with the world's most powerful X-ray telescope and Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a U.S. space flight.
2003 - The Massachusetts Attorney General issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese had probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades.
2011 - Singer Amy Winehouse, age 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.
2019 - Boris Johnson was the contest to lead Britain's governing Conservative Party, putting him in line to become the country's prime minister the following day.
Birthdays
22 - Abby Donnelly (actress)
35 - Daniel Radcliffe (actor)
42 - Paul Wesley (actor)
45 - Michelle Williams (singer)
50 - Stephanie March (actress)
51 - Monica Lewinsky (former White House intern/reality star)
51 - Kathryn Hahn (actress)
52 - Marlon Wayans (actor/comedian)
53 - Alison Krauss (singer)
54 - Charisma Carpenter (actress)
56 - Stephanie Seymour (actress/model)
56 - Gary Payton (basketball player)
59 - Slash (musician)
62 - Eriq Lasalle (actor)
63 - Woody Harrelson (actor)
77 - David Essex (singer)
86 - Ronny Cox (actor)
88 - Anthony M. Kennedy (retired Supreme Court Justice)
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Today in Sports History - July 23
1866 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings (Reds) baseball club is formed.
1956 - Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1989 - American Greg LeMond wins the Tour de France.
1995 - John Daly wins the British Open, his second major.
1996 - At the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games, Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle as the U.S. women's gymnastics team clinched their first-ever Olympic team gold medal.
2000 - Lance Armstrong wins his second Tour de France.
2000 - Tiger Woods, at age 24, becomes the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open.
2006 - Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer since Tom Watson in 1982 and 1983 to win back-to-back British Open titles.
2009 - Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox throws the 18th perfect game in MLB history in a 5-0 win over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
2012 - Penn State's football program was all but leveled by penalties for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal as the NCAA imposed an unprecedented $60 million fine, a four-year ban from postseason play and a cut in the number of football scholarships it could award.
2019 - Nike's Jordan Brand signs 2019 NBA No. 1 draft pick Zion Williamson to the richest multi-year sponsorship deal for a rookie in history, estimated at $75 million for 7 years.
2021 - Cleveland's Major League Baseball team, known as the Indians since 1915, announced that it would be known as the Guardians following the 2021 season; the change came amid a push for institutions and teams to drop logos and names that were considered racist and offensive. The team took the name Guardians after the Guardians of Traffic, eight large Art Deco statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge, located near their playing field.
2021 - After a year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Summer Olympic Games open in Tokyo, Japan.
2023 - Scott Rolen and Fred McGriff are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
