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Today in History: July 23
1627
Sir George Calvert arrives in Newfoundland to develop his land grant.

1637
King Charles of England hands over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England.

1664
Wealthy, non-church members in Massachusetts are given the right to vote.

1793
The French garrison at Mainz, Germany, falls to the Prussians.

1803
Irish patriots throughout the country rebel against Union with Great Britain.

1829
William A. Burt patents his "typographer," an early typewriter.

1849
German rebels in Baden capitulate to the Prussians.

1863
Bill Anderson and his Confederate Bushwhackers gut the railway station at Renick, Missouri.

1865
William Booth founds the Salvation Army.

1868
The 14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to African Americans.

1885
Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer at the age of 63.

1894
Japanese troops take over the Korean imperial palace.

1903
The Ford Motor Company sells its first automobile, the Model A.

1944
Soviet troops take Lublin, Poland as the German army retreats.

1962
The Geneva Conference on Laos forbids the United States to invade eastern Laos.

1995
Two astronomers, Alan Hale in New Mexico and Thomas Bopp in Arizona, almost simultaneously discover a comet.

Today in History: Born on July 23
1834
James Gibbons, American religious leader and founder of Catholic University.

1886
Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator.

1888
Raymond Chandler, detective writer, creator of Philip Marlow.

1891
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia.

1906
Marston Bates, American zoologist, author (The Nature of Natural History).

1939
Nicholas Gage, journalist and author (Eleni).

1940
John Nichols, novelist and essayist (The Milagro Beanfield War).

1944
Lisa Alther, novelist (Kinflicks).

JOTD
I hate it when people don’t know the difference between your and you’re!


There so stupid!