07-23-2006, 01:38 PM
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Location: Maryland
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July 23rd
1757 ~ Death of Domenico Scarlatti, Italian Composer.
1892 ~ Birthday of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia.
1914 ~ Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
1942 ~ The Treblinka extermination camp opened.
1952 ~ Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk I.
1962 ~ Telstar relayed the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
1972 ~ The U.S. launched Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.
1982 ~ The International Whaling Commission voted a moratorium on commercial whaling by 1985-86.
1984 ~ Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
1986 ~ Prince Andrew, Duke of York married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
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