July 23
People born on this day are Leo.
- 1993
China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 crashes during takeoff from Yinchuan Xihuayuan Airport in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, killing 55 people.
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Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
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Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
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ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
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Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.
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The English-Irish boy band One Direction were formed while auditioning for the 2010 series of the British singing competition The X Factor.
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A high-speed train rear-ends another on a viaduct on the Yongtaiwen railway line in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, resulting in 40 deaths.
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The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
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TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Penghu Airport. Forty-eight of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
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NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.
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A wildfire in East Attica kills at least 102 people. It is the deadliest wildfire in the history of Greece.
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2003Alex Consani, Model and Influencer
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2002Séléna Janicijevic, French tennis player
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2001Lily Phillips, British pornographic actress
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1998Deandre Ayton, Bahamian basketball player
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1996David Dobrik, Slovak YouTube personality
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1996Kasperi Kapanen, Finnish ice hockey player
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1996Danielle Bradbery, American singer
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1992Danny Ings, English footballer
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1991Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast
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1991Jarrod Wallace, Australian rugby league footballer
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1991Dmitry Orlov, Russian ice hockey player
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1990Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
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