Updated July 22, 2012, 2:28 pm
On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I.
On July 23, 1892, Haile Selassie I, the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, was born. Following his death on August 26, 1975, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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1829 William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner of the typewriter. 1885 Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63. 1945 French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason. 1952 Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk I. 1967 Rioting that claimed some 43 lives erupted in Detroit. 1984 Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine. 1986 Britain’s Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.) 2000 Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open at age 24. 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty died in Jackson, Miss., at age 92. 2003 Massachusetts’ attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over six decades. 2009 Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched the 18th perfect game in major league history, a 5-0 win over Tampa Bay. Current Birthdays
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Actor Daniel Radcliffe (“Harry Potter” movies) turns 23 years old today.
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Country singer-musician Alison Krauss turns 41 years old today.
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1925 Gloria DeHaven, Actress, turns 87 1936 Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court justice, turns 76 1940 Don Imus, Radio personality, turns 72 1948 John Hall, Singer (Orleans), former U.S. congressman, turns 64 1961 Woody Harrelson, Actor, turns 51 1962 Eriq La Salle, Actor (“ER”), turns 50 1965 Slash, Rock musician (Guns ‘n’ Roses), turns 47 1967 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor (“Capote”), turns 45 1968 Stephanie Seymour, Model, turns 44 1970 Charisma Carpenter, Actress (“Angel,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), turns 42 1970 Sam Watters, R&B singer, turns 42 1972 Marlon Wayans, Actor, comedian, turns 40 1973 Nomar Garciaparra, Baseball player, turns 39 1974 Stephanie March, Actress, turns 38 1980 Michelle Williams, R&B singer (Destiny’s Child), turns 32
Historic Birthdays
Haile Selassie I 7/23/1892 – 8/26/1975 Ethiopian emperor from 1930 to 1974.Go to obituary »
64 Francesco Sforza 7/23/1401 – 3/8/1466
Italian condottiere and duke of Milan86 Sir Thomas Brisbane 7/23/1773 – 1/27/1860
English soldier and astronomical observer84 Sir Jonathan Hutchinson 7/23/1828 – 6/26/1913
English medical researcher92 S. H. Kress 7/23/1863 – 9/22/1955
American retail businessman and art collector91 Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons 7/23/1874 – 3/11/1966
American racehorse trainer65 Emil Jannings 7/23/1884 – 1/2/1950
Swiss-born German stage and screen actor62 Sir Arthur Whitten Brown 7/23/1886 – 10/4/1948
English aviator; co-captained the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic70 Raymond Chandler 7/23/1888 – 3/26/1959
American author of detective stories66 Harry Cohn 7/23/1891 – 2/27/1958
American co-founder of Columbia Pictures57 Elio Vittorini 7/23/1908 – 2/13/1966
Italian novelist, translator and literary critic79 Pimen 7/23/1910 – 5/3/1990
Russian Orthodox patriarch of Moscow and Russia
