This Date in History, July 23, 2017

''Knowing the past, we can make wise 

choices for a brighter, and more positive future.''

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.
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).

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