July 23rd:
1986 – King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres
1980 – River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1978 – Israeli government rejects Sadat’s call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1973 – President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the
White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
1972 – 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1968 – PLO’s 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
1967 – 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1959 – Vice President Richard Nixon begins visit on U.S.S.R.
1946 – Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel
1944 – U.S. forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
1944 – U.S. troops occupy Pisa, Italy
1943 – Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1943 – U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
1940 – “Blitz” all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
1903 – Ford Motor sells 1st Model A car
1886 – Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge
1877 – 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
1877 – 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed
1851 – Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and U.S.
1298 – Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany
1298 – Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated
1253 – Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
1148 – Crusaders attack Damascus
636 – Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire