July 23^rd is

Hot Enough For Ya Day

International Yada, Yada, Yada Day

National Day of the Cowboy

National Drowning Prevention Day

National Vanilla Ice Cream Day

World Festivals and National Holidays

California – Monterey Music & Craft Beer Festival

Egypt – Revolution Day

Germany – Berlin Christopher St. Pride Parade

Israel – Fast of Shiva Asar B’Tammuz

Oman – Renaissance Day

Papua New Guinea – Remembrance Day

Rastafarians celebrate birth of Haile Selassie I

On This Day in HISTORY

636 – Arab Muslims gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire

1599 – Caravaggio’s first public commission, St. Matthew paintings in Contarelli Chapel

1829 – William Austin Burt gets U.S. patent for typographer (typewriter precursor)

1840 – Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada

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1903 –  Ford Motor Company sells its first car, a Model A

1904 – Ice cream cone possibly invented at St. Louis World Fair by Charles Menches

1914 – Austria-Hungary demands Serbia let them control Arch Duke Ferdinand’s assassination investigation– Serbia mostly accedes, but Austria will declare war July 28

1920 – British East Africa renamed Kenya, becomes a crown colony

1921 – The Communist Party of China (CPC) formed at a national congress

1926 – Fox Films buys Movietone sound system patents for recording sound on film

1942 – Germany opens Treblinka extermination camp

1952 – Egyptian King Farouk overthrown by Free Officers Movement

1965 – Bob Dylan releases “Like a Rolling Stone”

1979 – Electric Light Orchestra dedicated release of “Don’t Bring Me Down” to Skylab

1982 – International Whaling Commission votes for 1985 total commercial whaling ban

1999 – Colonel Eileen Collins is first woman to command U.S. shuttle mission, STS-93

2015 – NASA Kepler mission announces discovery of earth-like planet, Kepler-452b