Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 23
July 23: Tisha B'Av in Judaism (begins at sunset, 2007); 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.
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