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• 1777 King Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister clandestinely agree to supply the United States with munitions during the American Revolution
• 1829 William Austin Burt patents America's first typewriter, the typographer
• 1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada

• 1944 Bretton Woods Conference ends, establishes the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, later part of the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund
• 1995 Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later
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• 1966 Frank Sinatra's album "Strangers In The Night" hits #1 on the US charts, (Grammy for Record Of The Year and Best Male Vocal Performance)

• 2000 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Tiger Woods beats Thomas Bjørn and Ernie Els by 8 shots to win his first Open title and to become the youngest player at only 24 to win all 4 major titles

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NASA's Kepler mission announces discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet - Kepler-452b, 1,400 light years from Earth

July 23, 2015

Fun Fact About July 23

American opera singer Grace Bumbry becomes the first black singer to perform at the Bayreuth Festival, Germany, she earns 42 curtain calls

July 23, 1961

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