07-23-2005, 06:02 AM
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July 23rd
1757 ~ Death of Domenico Scarlatti, Italian Composer.
1829 ~ In the U.S., William Austin Burt patented the first typewriter.
1892 ~ Birthday of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia.
1940 ~ U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles`s declaration on the US non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1942 ~ The Treblinka extermination camp opened.
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 when she surrendered her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
1986 ~ Prince Andrew, Duke of York married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
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