23 July
Notable Births
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
Kevin Reynolds (figure skater)
b. 1990
Canadian figure skater
Daniel Radcliffe
b. 1989
English actor (born 1989)
Donald Young (tennis)
b. 1989
American tennis player (born 1989)
Harris English
b. 1989
American professional golfer
Alessio Cerci
b. 1987
Italian footballer (born 1987)
Serdar Kurtuluş
b. 1987
Turkish footballer
Aya Uchida
b. 1986
Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1986)
Nelson Philippe
b. 1986
French racing driver
Yelena Sokolova (long jumper)
b. 1986
Russian long jumper
Tessa Bonhomme
b. 1985
Former Canadian professional ice hockey player
Luis Ángel Landín
b. 1985
Mexican footballer (born 1985)
Walter Gargano
b. 1984
Uruguayan footballer (born 1984)
Notable Deaths
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)
Dora Bryan
d. 2014
English actress (1923–2014)
Norman Leyden
d. 2014
American conductor
Ariano Suassuna
d. 2014
Brazilian playwright (1927–2014)
Rona Anderson
d. 2013
British actress (1926–2013)
Arthur J. Collingsworth
d. 2013
American diplomat (1944–2013)
Dominguinhos
d. 2013
Brazilian singer (1941–2013)
Emile Griffith
d. 2013
American boxer (1938–2013)
Djalma Santos
d. 2013
Brazilian footballer (1929–2013)
Margaret Mahy
d. 2012
New Zealand children's writer (1936–2012)
Sally Ride
d. 2012
American physicist and astronaut (1951–2012)
Lakshmi Sahgal
d. 2012
Indian doctor, politician and officer of the Indian National Army (1914 - 2012)
Esther Tusquets
d. 2012
Spanish publisher, novelist and essayist
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
1999
ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
All Nippon Airways Flight 61
1999
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Space Shuttle Columbia
1997
Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
Digital Equipment Corporation
1995
Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
Comet Hale–Bopp
1993
China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 crashes during takeoff from Yinchuan Xihuayuan Airport in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, killing 55 people.
China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119
1992
A Vatican commission, led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
Catholic Church
1992
Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
Abkhazia
1988
General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
Ne Win
1983
Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Sri Lanka Army
1983
Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
Gimli Glider
1982
Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.
Santa Clarita, California
1980
Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.
Phạm Tuân