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Today's featured article
- ... that Jenny Hurn (pictured) in Lincolnshire, England, is said to be haunted by a boggart that crosses the River Trent in a dish propelled by oars the size of teaspoons?
- ... that the Mount Leona Fire was finally contained on the upper slopes of Profanity Peak?
- ... that the International Olympic Committee's TikTok account praised the "incredible strategy" of speed skater Yang Jingru's win at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics?
- ... that according to writer Russell T Davies, he conceived elements of the Doctor Who episode "Empire of Death" decades before he wrote it?
- ... that during his tenure as the manager of Austria's Burgtheater from 1971 to 1976, Gerhard Klingenberg often directed plays with analogies of a divided Europe?
- ... that Red (Taylor's Version) was credited by media publications with popularizing the "Sad Girl Autumn" phenomenon in popular culture?
- ... that 14 months after taking up track cycling, René Heyde only narrowly missed out being selected to the New Zealand team at the 1972 Summer Olympics?
- ... that during the construction of 181 Montague Street in New York City, each of the building's columns was pulled by 14 horses?
- ... that Unilever invited Britons to congregate and worship at a shrine to Marmite in 2010?
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- Incumbent U.S. president Joe Biden (pictured) withdraws from the 2024 presidential election.
- General secretary and former president of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng dies at the age of 80.
- The International Court of Justice finds the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories to be a violation of international law.
- A faulty software update by CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity company, causes global computer outages.
On this day...
July 23: Seventeenth of Tammuz (Judaism, 2024), Birthday of Haile Selassie (Rastafari)
- 1860 – The trial of the Eastbourne manslaughter, which later became an important legal precedent in the United Kingdom for discussions of corporal punishment in schools, began in Lewes.
- 1927 – Wilfred Rhodes (pictured) of England and Yorkshire became the only person to play in 1,000 first-class cricket matches.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp began operation, killing 6,500 Jews who had been transported from the Warsaw Ghetto the day before.
- 1995 – Hale–Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th century, was independently discovered by astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
- 1999 – In Tulia, Texas, 47 people were arrested for dealing cocaine; years later, 35 of the 47 were pardoned by the Governor of Texas.
- John Day (d. 1584)
- Bonaventura Peeters the Elder (b. 1614)
- Daniel Radcliffe (b. 1989)
- Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
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