more events on July 23
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1995
Two astronomers, Alan Hale in New Mexico and Thomas Bopp in Arizona, almost simultaneously discover a comet.
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1962
The Geneva Conference on Laos forbids the United States to invade eastern Laos.
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1944
Lisa Alther, novelist (Kinflicks).
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Soviet troops take Lublin, Poland as the German army retreats.
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1940
John Nichols, novelist and essayist (The Milagro Beanfield War).
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1939
Nicholas Gage, journalist and author (Eleni).
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1906
Marston Bates, American zoologist, author (The Nature of Natural History).
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1903
The Ford Motor Company sells its first automobile, the Model A.
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1894
Japanese troops take over the Korean imperial palace.
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1891
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia.
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1888
Raymond Chandler, detective writer, creator of Philip Marlow.
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1886
Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator.
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1885
Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer at the age of 63.
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1868
The 14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to African Americans.
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1865
William Booth founds the Salvation Army.
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1863
Bill Anderson and his Confederate Bushwhackers gut the railway station at Renick, Missouri.
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1849
German rebels in Baden capitulate to the Prussians.
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1834
James Gibbons, American religious leader and founder of Catholic University.
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1829
William A. Burt patents his “typographer,” an early typewriter.
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1803
Irish patriots throughout the country rebel against Union with Great Britain.
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1793
The French garrison at Mainz, Germany, falls to the Prussians.
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1664
Wealthy, non-church members in Massachusetts are given the right to vote.
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1637
King Charles of England hands over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England.
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1627
Sir George Calvert arrives in Newfoundland to develop his land grant.