On This Day
23 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1555 Humayun reconquered Delhi after defeating Sikandar Suri in Machiwara and Sarhind battles.
- 1856 Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.
- 1898 Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born.
- 1906 Chandra Sekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (Hindustan Socialist Republican Army), was born in Bhavra, Central India Agency, British India.
- 1927 The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1829 William A. Burt patented his "typographer," an early typewriter.
- 1888 Raymond Chandler, writer of detective stories, creator of the character Philip Marlow, was born in Chicago.
- 1894 Japanese troops take over the Korean imperial palace.
- 1921 The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
- 1974 The military government in Greece collapses and the former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited to return.
- 1982 International Whaling Commission bans commercial whale hunting. 25 countries voted to put the restrictions and ban in place.
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