Today in History
23 July
238 births · 106 deaths · 59 events recorded
Notable Births
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Séléna Janicijevic
b. 2002
French tennis player (born 2002)
Lily Phillips
b. 2001
English pornographic film actress (born 2001)
Deandre Ayton
b. 1998
Bahamian basketball player (born 1998)
David Dobrik
b. 1996
Slovak Internet personality (born 1996)
Kasperi Kapanen
b. 1996
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Danny Ings
b. 1992
English footballer (born 1992)
Lauren Mitchell
b. 1991
Australian artistic gymnast (born 1991)
Jarrod Wallace
b. 1991
Australian rugby league footballer
Notable Deaths
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Robin Warren
d. 2024
Australian pathologist (1937–2024)
Phyo Zeya Thaw
d. 2022
Burmese politician and artist (1981–2022)
Kyaw Min Yu
d. 2022
Burmese political prisoner (1969–2022)
John Kundla
d. 2017
American basketball player and coach (1916–2017)
Shigeko Kubota
d. 2015
Japanese artist (1937–2015)
Don Oberdorfer
d. 2015
American journalist (1931–2015)
William Wakefield Baum
d. 2015
American Catholic prelate (1926–2015)
Eudora Welty
d. 2001
American writer and photographer (1909–2001)
On This Day in History
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2018
A wildfire in East Attica kills at least 102 people. It is the deadliest wildfire in the history of Greece.
2018 Attica wildfires
2015
NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.
NASA
2014
TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Penghu Airport. Forty-eight of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
TransAsia Airways Flight 222
2012
The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
July 2012 solar storm
2011
A high-speed train rear-ends another on a viaduct on the Yongtaiwen railway line in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, resulting in 40 deaths.
High-speed rail
2010
The English-Irish boy band One Direction were formed while auditioning for the 2010 series of the British singing competition The X Factor.
One Direction
2005
Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
2005 Sharm El Sheikh bombings
2001
Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.
Megawati Sukarnoputri