Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
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. | |
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Born on July 23 |
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| 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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Bobby Belville was born in 1975