What happend on 23rd July

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1973

Robert Anton Wilson, the occultist/philosopher, either achieved contact with extraterrestrials from Sirius or started a long-term period of having wild hallucinations, depending on which way you want to look at it.

1972

The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.

1970

Qaboos ibn Sa’id, becomes Sultan of Oman.

1967

12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned).

1962

Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.

1961

Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) founded in Nicaragua.

1956

The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.

1952

General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser

1940

US Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles`s declaration on the US non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States

1936

In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties.