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Today in History
July 23

1540   Thomas Cromwell is beheaded on Tower Hill in England.
1627   Sir George Calvert arrives in Newfoundland to develop his land grant.
1637   King Charles of England hands over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Fernando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England.
1664   Wealthy, non-church members in Massachusetts are given the right to vote.
1793   The French garrison at Mainz, Germany, falls to the Prussians.
1803   Irish patriots throughout the country rebel against Union with Great Britain.
1829   William A. Burt patents his "typographer," an early typewriter.
1849   German rebels in Baden capitulate to the Prussians.
1863   Bill Andeson and his Confederate Bushwackers gut the railway station at Renick, Missouri.
1865   William Booth founds the Salvation Army.
1868   The 14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to African Americans.
1885   Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer at the age of 63.
1894   Japanese troops take over the Korean imperial palace.
1903   The Ford Motor Company sells its first automobile, the Model A.
1944   Soviet troops take Lublin, Poland as the German army retreats.
1962   The Geneva Conference on Laos forbids the United States to invade eastern Laos.
1995   Two astronomers, Alan Hale in New Mexico and Thomas Bopp in Arizona, almost simultaneouly discover a comet.

Born on July 23
1834   James Gibbons, American religious leader and founder of Catholic University.
1886   Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator.
1888   Raymond Chandler, detective writer, creator of Philip Marlow.
1891   Haile Selassi, Emperor of Ethiopia.
1906   Marston Bates, American zoologist, author (The Nature of Natural History).
1939   Nicholas Gage, journalist and author (Eleni).
1940   John Nichols, novelist and essayist (The Milagro Beanfield War).
1944   Lisa Alther, novelist (Kinflicks).

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  2. Bobby Belville was born in 1975

    By Bobby Belville on Aug 6, 2009 at 3:24 pm

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