Public Holidays on July 23

• 🌍 Día de la Fuerza Aérea del Perú (Peru)
• 🌍 Revolution Day (Egypt)
• 🌍 عيد ثورة ٢٣ يوليو (Egypt)

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Religious Observances on July 23

• Jewish: Tish’a B’Av תשעה באב

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On This Day in History — July 23

• 2016 — Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and...
• 2015 — NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
• 2005 — Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
• 1999 — ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
• 1997 — Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
• 1995 — Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.

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Notable Births on July 23

• 1996 — Alexandra Andresen, Norwegian heiress and equestrian
• 1992 — Danny Ings, English footballer
• 1991 — Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast
• 1991 — Jarrod Wallace, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1990 — Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
• 1989 — Daniel Radcliffe, English actor

Notable Deaths on July 23

• 2017 — John Kundla, American basketball coach (b. 1916)
• 2015 — Shigeko Kubota, Japanese-American sculptor and director (b. 1937)
• 2015 — Don Oberdorfer, American journalist, author, and academic (b. 1931)
• 2015 — William Wakefield Baum, American cardinal (b. 1926)
• 2014 — Dora Bryan, English actress and restaurateur (b. 1923)
• 2014 — Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (b. 1917)

Public Holidays on July 24

• 🌍 Natalicio de Simón Bolívar (Venezuela)
• 🌍 Simón Bolívar's Birthday (Venezuela)

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On This Day in History — July 24

• 2014 — Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people...
• 2013 — A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.
• 2001 — Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a...
• 2001 — The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. 11 civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while 7 soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air...
• 1998 — Russell Eugene Weston, Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
• 1987 — US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.

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Notable Births on July 24

• 1995 — Valentine Holmes, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 — Alejandra Álvarez, Ecuadorian tennis player
• 1992 — Dmitry Abyzov, Russian footballer
• 1992 — Mikaël Kingsbury, Canadian skier
• 1991 — Manuel Fischnaller, Italian footballer
• 1990 — Travis Mahoney, Australian swimmer

Notable Deaths on July 24

• 2017 — Harshida Raval, Indian Gujarati playback singer
• 2016 — Marni Nixon, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
• 2015 — Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 2015 — Jim Mitchell, American captain, lawyer, and judge (b. 1946)
• 2015 — Ingrid Sischy, South African-American journalist and critic (b. 1952)
• 2014 — Ik-Hwan Bae, Korean-American violinist and educator (b. 1956)