Major Events
- 1777 King Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister clandestinely agree to supply the United States with munitions during the American Revolution
- 1829 William Austin Burt patents America’s first typewriter, the typographer
- 1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada
- 1944 Bretton Woods Conference ends, establishes the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, later part of the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund
- 1995 Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later
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Jul 23 in Music
- 1966 Frank Sinatra‘s album “Strangers in the Night” hits #1 on the US charts and wins a Grammy for Record of the Year and Best Male Vocal Performance
Jul 23 in Sport
- 2000 British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Tiger Woods beats Thomas Bjørn and Ernie Els by eight shots to win his first Open title and to become the youngest player at only 24 to win all 4 major titles
Did You Know?
NASA’s Kepler mission announces the discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet, Kepler-452b, located 1,400 light-years from Earth
Fun Fact About July 23
American opera singer Grace Bumbry becomes the first Black singer to perform at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, earning 42 curtain calls
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