July 23 HOLIDAYS: EVENTS: BIRTHDAYS:

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Today is Sunday, July 23, 2023.

 

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 World Grandparents and Elderly Day.
🌏 World Whale and Dolphin Day.

 

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇺🇸 USA - Parents' Day.
🇲🇨 Indonesia - Children's Day.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan - Day of Retail Trade Employees.
🇵🇪 Peru - Peruvian Air Force Day.
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea - Remembrance Day.
🇪🇬 Egypt - Revolution Day.
🇴🇲 Oman - Awakening Day.
🇯🇵 Japan - Writing Day.

 

👉 EVENTS:

— 971 — Russian prince Svyatoslav Igorevich held a military council near the walls of Dorostol (Bulgaria) and decided to fight the last battle during the war with Byzantium.
- 1453 - Duke of Burgundy Philip III the Generous severely defeated the rebels of Ghent in the Battle of Gever.
- 1508 - Pedro Navarro recaptured Penon Island from pirates.
- 1533 - The first Austrian-Turkish peace treaty was concluded in Istanbul.
— 1711 — the Treaty of Prut was signed, according to which Russia returned Azov to Turkey and undertook to demolish the Taganrog fortress.
- 1793 - The Republic of Mainz on the territory of Germany came to an end.
- 1831 - cholera uprising began in Staraya Russ.
- 1867 - General Governorate of Turkestan was established in Russia.
— 1874 — Alexander Nikolayevich Lodigin received patent No. 1619 for an incandescent lamp.
- 1881 - The International Gymnastics Federation was founded.
- 1908 - Revolution of the Young Turks. Restoration of the constitution in Turkey.
- 1951 - NATO headquarters was opened in Roquencourt, France.
- 1952 - July revolution in Egypt.
- 1974 - the dictatorship of the "black colonels" in Greece was overthrown.
— 1974 — the day when the city of Kuva in Fergana region was founded.
- 1985 - "Topol" missiles were made ready.
— 1991 — The first game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series (16 bit) was released.
- 1992 - Abkhazia became independent from Georgia.
- 1995 - one of the brightest comets was discovered.
— 2000 — A new natural satellite of Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, was discovered. It is the smallest known moon, with a diameter of 4,8 km. The discovery was made by astronomers at the University of Arizona and confirmed by the Massachusetts Observatory.
— 2015 — Kepler telescope discovered the first Earth-type exoplanet, a sun-like star — Kepler-452 b. located in the zone.
— 2016 — A terrorist attack occurred during a demonstration in Kabul, about 80 people were killed.
— 2018 — Forest fires broke out in Attica (Greece), 102 people died
— 2021 — The opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games was held in Tokyo.

 

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

- 1401 - Francesco Sforsa (1466) - the founder of the ruling dynasty of Milan, condottiere.
- 1792 - Pyotr Vyazemsky (1878) - Russian poet, literary critic, historian, translator, publicist, statesman.
- 1859 - Vladimir Palladin (1922) - Russian botanist and biochemist, academician, one of the founders of the school of plant biochemistry.
— 1884 — Albert Warner (1967) — the second of four brothers — one of the founders of the Hollywood Warner Brothers film company.
- 1892 - Haile Selassie I (1975) - the last emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974).
— 1896 — Naum Goldman (1981) — conductor, pedagogue, honored artist of Uzbekistan (1943).
— 1898 — Tarashonkor Bondopaddhai (1971) — Indian writer.
— 1906 — Vladimir Prelog (1998) — Swiss organic chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1975).
- 1923 - Cyril Kornblatt (1958) - American fantasy writer.
— 1941 — Flora Kerimova — singer, People's Artist of Azerbaijan.
— 1954 — Alla Kudlay — singer, People's Artist of Ukraine (1997).
- 1960 - John Landau - American film producer, winner of Oscar and Golden Globe awards.
- 1961 - Woody Harrelson - American actor, movie star.
- 1968 - Stephanie Seymour - American supermodel and actress.
- 1976 - Judith Polgar - Hungarian chess player, international grandmaster.
- 1989 - Daniel Radcliffe - British actor, known to the world through the movie Harry Potter.
- 1995 - Mehrinoz Abbasova - Uzbek poetess, international journalist and literary critic.