On This Day for July 23 - Egyptian monarchy toppled by coup, Haile Selassie is featured, and more

Created: 2020-07-23 10:03 Updated: 2020-07-23 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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July 23

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Haile Selassie

FEATURED EVENT

1952

Egyptian monarchy toppled by coup

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U.S. astronaut Sally Ride aboard space shuttle Challenger.

2012: U.S. astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel in space, died at the age of 61. [Take our quiz about famous astronauts and cosmonauts.]

2011: British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who won five Grammy Awards for her Motown-inspired Back to Black (2006) but struggled with substance-abuse problems, died from alcohol poisoning at the age of 27. [Test your knowledge of the Grammy Awards.]

1967: A riot began in Detroit as African Americans and the city's police department were involved in violent confrontations following a police raid on an illegal drinking club; the unrest, which lasted for five days, is considered one of the catalysts of the militant Black Power movement. [Learn more about notable riots in U.S. history.]

1997: Slobodan Milošević became president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (comprising Serbia and Montenegro ) after serving as president of Serbia from 1989; he was later charged with genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes relating to the Kosovo conflict, and he died during his trial in 2006.

1970: Sultan Saʿīd ibn Taymūr of Oman was overthrown by his son, Qaboos bin Said, in a palace coup. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about the Middle East.]

1945: Marshal Philippe Pétain of France went on trial for treason during World War II; he ultimately was given a life sentence of solitary confinement. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about World War II.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1989

Daniel Radcliffe
British actor

1973

Monica Lewinsky
American activist, public speaker, and writer

1967

Philip Seymour Hoffman
American actor

1892

Haile Selassie I
emperor of Ethiopia

1971

Alison Krauss
American musician