July 23: Revolution Day in Egypt (1952)
Sarah, Duchess of York
- 1829 – William Austin Burt was awarded a patent for the typographer, the first practical typewriting machine.
- 1914 – Austria-Hungary presented Serbia with an ultimatum to allow them to investigate the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, that Serbia would ultimately reject, leading to World War I.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp began operation, killing 6,500 Jews who had been transported from the Warsaw Ghetto the day before.
- 1970 – Qaboos overthrew his father Said bin Taimur to become Sultan of Oman.
- 1986 – Sarah Ferguson (pictured) married Prince Andrew, Duke of York at Westminster Abbey, joining the British Royal Family as the Duchess of York.
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