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Day Of The Week: July 23
July 23, 2025 is the 204th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Ruby is your modern birthstone. Ruby is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: July 23
- 1632 –Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
- 1903 –The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
- 1914 –Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will reject those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28.
- 1940 –The United States’ Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1942 –World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
- 1961 –The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
- 1972 –The United States launch Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
- 1983 –The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group. In the subsequent riots of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.
- 1995 –Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
- 1997 –Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
Who were born on July 23?
- 1301 –Otto, Duke of Austria (d. 1339)
- 1888 –Raymond Chandler, American novelist (d. 1959)
- 1905 –Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor and lecturer
- 1942 –Dimitris Liantinis, Greek philosopher
- 1943 –Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
- 1950 –Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
- 1964 –Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist
- 1976 –Jonathan Gallant, Canadian bassist (Billy Talent)
- 1977 –Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1981 –Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
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