Events
of the day
Parents
Day
Parents’ Day is celebrated in the United
States on the fourth Sunday of July each
year to recognize and promote parenting
as a crucial part of families and the wider
community.
Parental
figures in the United States receive the
recognition for the role they play in their
children’s lives on Parents’ Day. The day
aims to promote responsible parenting and
to recognize positive parental role models.
It celebrates the special bonds of love
between parental figures and their children.
1632
– Three hundred colonists bound for New
France depart from Dieppe, France.
1677 – Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures
the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
1793 – Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
1821 – While Mora Rebellion continuing,
Greeks captured Monemvasia Castle and massacred
nearly 3000 Turkish inhabitants.
1829 – In the United States, William Austin
Burt patents the typographer, a precursor
to the typewriter.
1833 – Cornerstones are laid for the construction
of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
1840 – The Province of Canada is created
by the Act of Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck
takes command of the Union Army.
1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is
appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese
colonial enclave of Goa.
1881 – The Boundary treaty of 1881 between
Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos
Aires.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its
first car.
1908 – The Second Constitution accepted
by the Ottomans.
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.
1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the
Movietone sound system for recording sound
onto film.
1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting
Company goes on the air in Bombay.
1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans
the use of foreign words.
1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified
Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded
through the merger of Socialist and Communist
parties.
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 – The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination
camp is opened.
1942 – World War II: The German offensives
Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig
begin.
1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader
Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
1945 – The post-war legal processes against
Philippe Pétain begin.
1952 – The European Coal and Steel community
is established.
1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the
Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal
Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the
coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation
Front is founded in Nicaragua.
1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly
transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television
program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
1962 – The International Agreement on the
Neutrality of Laos is signed.
1967 – 12th Street Riot: in Detroit, Michigan,
one of the worst riots in United States
history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly
African American inner city. It will leave
43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings
burned.
1968 – Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland,
Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black
Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans
and the Cleveland Police Department occurs.
During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts
for five days.
1968 – The only successful hijacking of
an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing
707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is
taken over by three members of the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The
aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy,
to Lod, Israel.
1970 – Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of
Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa’id
ibn Taimur initiating massive reforms ;modernisation
programs and end to a decade long civil
war.
1972 – The United States launch Landsat
1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
1974 – The Greek military junta collapses,
and former Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis
is invited to lead the new government.
1982 – The International Whaling Commission
decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
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.
1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143
runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing
at Gimli, Manitoba.
1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first
Miss America to resign when she surrenders
her crown after nude photos of her appeared
in Penthouse magazine.
1986 – In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of
York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster
Abbey.
1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of
Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy
protests.
1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph
Ratzinger, establishes that it is necessary
to limit rights of homosexual people and
non-married couples.
1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from
Georgia.
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.
1999 – Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan
is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on
the death of his father.
1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo,
Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama
Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing
88 people.
Holidays
and observances
Birthday
of Haile Selassie (Rastafari movement)
Christian Feast Day:
Bridget of Sweden
Heiromartyr Phocas (Eastern Orthodox)
Liborius of Le Mans
July 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Neptunalia, in honor of Neptune. (Roman
Empire)
Renaissance Day (Oman)
Revolution Day (Egypt)
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