July 23rd (1968) was a Tuesday. It's the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 23rd July, 1968
» Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Glenville Shootout Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Division of Police Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins an
» The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is El Al Flight 426 hijacking taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route
Famous Birthdays on July 23 in 1968
» Elden Campbell, American basketball player
» Gary Payton, American basketball player and actor
» Stephanie Seymour, American model and actress
July 23rd Famous Deaths for 1968
» Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
July 23rd Holidays in History
» Birthday of Haile Selassie I named Haile Selassie (Rastafari movement)
» Christian Calendar of saints or Feast Day:
» Bridget of Sweden
» Saint Phocas e.g Heiromartyr Phocas (Eastern Orthodox Church named Eastern Orthodox)
» Liborius of Le Mans
» July 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Public holidays in Papua New Guinea or National Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)
» Qaboos bin Said al Said named Renaissance Day (Oman)