On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I.
On July 23, 1892, Haile Selassie I, the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, was born. Following his death on August 26, 1975, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
| 1829 | William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner of the typewriter. |
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| 1885 | Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63. |
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| 1945 | French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason. |
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| 1952 | Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk I. |
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| 1967 | Rioting that claimed some 43 lives erupted in Detroit. |
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| 1984 | Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine. |
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| 1986 | Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.) |
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| 2000 | Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open at age 24. |
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| 2001 | Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty died in Jackson, Miss., at age 92. |
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| 2003 | Massachusetts' attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over six decades. |
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| 2009 | Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched the 18th perfect game in major league history, a 5-0 win over Tampa Bay. |
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Current Birthdays
Actor Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter" movies) turns 22 years old today.
AP Photo/Jonathan Short
Country singer-musician Alison Krauss turns 40 years old today.
AP Photo/Dave Martin
| 1925 | Gloria DeHaven, Actress, turns 86 |
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| 1936 | Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court justice, turns 75 |
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| 1940 | Don Imus, Radio personality, turns 71 |
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| 1948 | John Hall, Singer (Orleans), former U.S. congressman, turns 63 |
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| 1961 | Woody Harrelson, Actor, turns 50 |
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| 1962 | Eriq La Salle, Actor ("ER"), turns 49 |
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| 1965 | Slash, Rock musician (Guns 'n' Roses), turns 46 |
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| 1967 | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor ("Capote"), turns 44 |
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| 1968 | Stephanie Seymour, Model, turns 43 |
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| 1970 | Charisma Carpenter, Actress ("Angel," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), turns 41 |
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| 1970 | Sam Watters, R&B singer, turns 41 |
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| 1972 | Marlon Wayans, Actor, comedian, turns 39 |
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| 1973 | Nomar Garciaparra, Baseball player, turns 38 |
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| 1974 | Stephanie March, Actress, turns 37 |
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| 1980 | Michelle Williams, R&B singer (Destiny's Child), turns 31 |
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Historic Birthdays
Haile Selassie I7/23/1892 - 8/26/1975Ethiopian emperor from 1930 to 1974.Go to obituary »
| 64 | Francesco Sforza 7/23/1401 - 3/8/1466
Italian condottiere and duke of Milan |
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| 86 | Sir Thomas Brisbane 7/23/1773 - 1/27/1860
English soldier and astronomical observer |
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| 84 | Sir Jonathan Hutchinson 7/23/1828 - 6/26/1913
English medical researcher |
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| 92 | S. H. Kress 7/23/1863 - 9/22/1955
American retail businessman and art collector |
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| 91 | Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons 7/23/1874 - 3/11/1966
American racehorse trainer |
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| 65 | Emil Jannings 7/23/1884 - 1/2/1950
Swiss-born German stage and screen actor |
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| 62 | Sir Arthur Whitten Brown 7/23/1886 - 10/4/1948
English aviator; co-captained the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic |
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| 70 | Raymond Chandler 7/23/1888 - 3/26/1959
American author of detective stories |
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| 66 | Harry Cohn 7/23/1891 - 2/27/1958
American co-founder of Columbia Pictures |
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| 57 | Elio Vittorini 7/23/1908 - 2/13/1966
Italian novelist, translator and literary critic |
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| 79 | Pimen 7/23/1910 - 5/3/1990
Russian Orthodox patriarch of Moscow and Russia |
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