Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 23
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This is a list of selected July 23 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.July 23: Revolution Day in Egypt
- 1881 – The International Federation of Gymnastics, the world's oldest international sport federation, was founded in Liège, Belgium.
- 1952 – Egyptian Army officers in the Free Officers Movement led by Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser staged a military coup that forced King Farouk of Egypt to abdicate.
- 1970 – Qaboos overthrew his father Said bin Taimur to become Sultan of Oman.
- 1986 – Sarah Ferguson married Prince Andrew, Duke of York at Westminster Abbey, joining the British Royal Family as the Duchess of York.
- 1995 – Hale-Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the twentieth century, was discovered by two independent observers, Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, at a very large distance from the Sun.
- 2001 – Megawati Sukarnoputri (pictured), daughter of independence leader Sukarno, became the first female president of Indonesia after the People's Consultative Assembly removed Abdurrahman Wahid.
