What are the important events that happened on July 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 23: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 23 is the 204^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 10, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,220,480 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetragon’ day.

Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 209 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,597 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 23 Historical Events

• 1821 –
  While Mora Rebellion continuing, Greeks captured Monemvasia Castle and massacred nearly 3000 Turkish inhabitants.
• 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.
• 1908 –
  The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
• 1936 –
  In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
• 1942 –
  The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
• 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.
• 1988 –
  General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
• 1992 –
  Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.

Who were born on July 23?

• 1773 –
  Sir Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer, soldier and governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)
• 1796 –
  Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
• 1914 –
  Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (d. 1971)
• 1923 –
  Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001)
• 1944 –
  Dino Danelli, drummer (Young Rascals)
• 1957 –
  Kate Buffery, British actress and writer
• 1961 –
  Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode)
• 1974 –
  Kathryn Hahn, American actress
• 1982 –
  Zanjoe Marudo, Filipino actor
• 1985 –
  Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer

Who died on July 23?

• 1536 –
  Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, bastard son of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1519)
• 1773 –
  George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
• 1833 –
  Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (b. 1777)
• 1966 –
  Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1973 –
  Eddie Rickenbacker, American fighter ace in World War I and founder of Rickenbacker Motors (b. 1890)
• 1980 –
  Sarto Fournier, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
• 1982 –
  Giorgos Gavriilidis, Greek actor (b. 1906)
• 1985 –
  Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
• 2001 –
  Eudora Welty, American writer (b. 1909)
• 2002 –
  William Luther Pierce, American white nationalist and novelist (b. 1933)