23 Julie

The **23t o Julie** is the 204t day o the year (205t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 161 days ti come.

## Events

* 1148 - Crusades: A Crusader force lays Damascus unner Siege.
* 1783 - Proushie reconquers Mainz frae Fraunce.
* 1881 - Chile an Argentinae agree on their border on Tierra del Fuego.
* 1903 - The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
* 1927 - The first station o the Indie Braidcastin Company goes on the air in Bombay.
* 1929 - Italy's Fascist govrenment bans the use o foreign words.
* 1930 - A yirdquauk in Italy kills 1,425 fowk.
* 1952 - Egyp becomes a republic, as King Farouk I o Egyp is removed frae pouer.
* 1970 - Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said o Oman removes his faither frae pouer in a bloodless coup.
* 1986 - Prince Andrew, Duke o York mairies Sarah Ferguson.
* 1992 - Abkhazie declares unthirldom frae Georgie.
* 1999 - Mohammed VI o Morocco becomes Keeng.
* 2004 - The Stari Most (Auld Brig) in Mostar, Bosnie an Herzegovinae reopens, efter bein destroyed in the Balkan War in 1993.
* 2005 - A bomb attack in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egyp, kills 88 fowk.
* 2011 - A train crash on the high-speed line atween Beijing an Shanghai kills 40 fowk.
* 2011 - Inglis sangster Amy Winehouse is foond deed at her Lunnon hame, agit 27.
* 2014 - Start o the 2014 Commonweel Gemmes in Glesga.
* 2016 - A bomb attack on a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 80 fowk.
* 2018 - A dam collapses in Soothren Laos, killin at least 26 fowk an leavin ower 130 missin.
* 2018 - Wildfires break oot in the Attica region o Greece, killin at least 85 fowk.
* 2019 - Boris Johnson becomes leader o the UK Conservative Pairty.

## Births

* 1649 - Pape Clement XI (d. 1721)
* 1773 - Thomas Brisbane, Scots airmy afficer, admeenistrator an astronomer (d. 1860)
* 1883 - Alan Brooke, 1st Viscoont Alanbrooke (d. 1963)
* 1888 - Raymond Chandler, Breetish-American novelist an screenwriter (d. 1959)
* 1888 - Jimmy Gordon, Scots fitbawer (d. 1954)
* 1892 - Haile Selassie, Emperor o Ethiopie (d. 1975)
* 1899 - Gustav Heinemann, Preses o Wast Germany (d. 1976)
* 1906 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatie chemist (d. 1998)
* 1909 - John William Finn, American sodger (d. 2010)
* 1913 - Michael Foot, Inglis politeecian (d. 2010)
* 1941 - Sergio Mattarella, 12t Preses o Italy
* 1950 - Stewart Milne, Scots businessman
* 1953 - Najib Razak, 6t Prime meenister o Malaysie
* 1957 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
* 1961 - Woody Harrelson, American actor
* 1965 - Slash, Breetish-American muisicker
* 1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014)
* 1973 - Fran Healy, Scots sangster o the baund Travis
* 1973 - Monica Lewinsky, American White Hoose intern
* 1980 - Michelle Williams, American sangster (Destiny's Child)
* 1981 - Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
* 1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, Inglis actor

## Daiths
* 1645 - Michael I o Roushie (b. 1596)
* 1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1822)
* 1909 - Daniel John Cunningham, Scots medicinar, zoologist an anatomist (b. 1850)
* 1916 - William Ramsay, Scots chemist (b. 1852)
* 1948 - D. W. Griffith, American film director an producer (b. 1875)
* 1949 - Willie Taylor, Scots fitbawer (b. 1870)
* 1951 - Philippe Pétain, French military an politeecian (b. 1856)
* 1955 - Cordell Hull, Unitit States Secretar o State (b. 1871)
* 1972 - William Devlin, Scots fitbawer (b. 1899)
* 1999 - Hassan II o Morocco (b. 1929)
* 2007 - Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (b. 1918)
* 2007 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, Keeng o Afghanistan (b. 1914)
* 2011 - Amy Winehouse, Inglis sangster (b. 1983)
* 2012 - Sally Ride, American astronaut an pheesicist (b. 1951)
* 2017 - Waldir Peres, Brazilian fitbawer (b. 1951)

## Halidays
* Revolution Day (Egyp)
* Children's Day (Indonesie)
* Haile Selassie's Birthday (Rastafari)
* Naitional Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)
* Saunt Bridget o Swaden