Daily Calendar for Thursday, July 23, 2026

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Ulysses S. Grant (18th U.S. president) – 1885
Sir William Ramsay (chemist & Nobel prize winner) – 1916
D. W. Griffith (film director) – 1948
Montgomery Clift (actor) – 1966
Edward V. Rickenbacker (WWI flying ace) – 1973
William Pierce (white supremacist whose book, The Turner Diaries, is believed to have inspired Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh) – 2002
Chaim Potok (author) – 2002
Ron Miller (songwriter; hits include Touch Me in the Morning and For Once in My Life) – 2007
Amy Winehouse (singer) – 2011
Sally Ride (astronaut; first American woman in space) – 2012

America’s first swimming school opened by Francis Lieber in Boston, MA – 1827
The first practical typographer (typewriter) was patented by William Burt – 1829
Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada into one government – 1840
Copyright for “America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates registered – 1906
Boeing 767 turned into glider after fuel ran out due to metric conversion error, Gimli, Manitoba – 1983
Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign when she relinquished her crown – 1984
Disney’s Tarzan became the first all-digital film – 1999
George Lee “Sparky” Anderson inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame – 2000

In his weather diary, George Washington described a big storm that passed over his home in Mount Vernon, Virginia. Historians often refer to this storm as George Washington’s Hurricane. – 1788
Sheridan, Wyoming, got drenched by 4.41 inches of rain, which washed away some railroad tracks – 1923
Rain delayed Giants/Mets baseball game 3 hours 39 minutes – 1994
A hailstone broke through a deck in Vivian, South Dakota, during a severe thunderstorm. The hailstone weighed 1 pound 15 ounces and measured 8 inches in diameter, 18.6 inches in circumference. It was the heaviest and largest hailstone in diameter ever recovered in the U.S. – 2010
Several counties in Kansas reported baseball size hail – 2013