THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015

Today is Thursday, July 23, the 204th day of 2015. There are 161 days left in the year.

636 ― Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire

1298 ― Jews are massacred at Wurzburg, Germany

1798 ― Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt

1829 ― William Austin Burt patents “typographer” (typewriter)

1904 ― Ice cream cone created by Charles E. Menches during La Purchase Expo

1931 ― France announces they can’t afford to send a team to 1932 L.A. Olympics

1937 ― Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)

1965 ― Beatles “Help” is released in the U.K.

1974 ― Greek military dictatorship collapses

1984 ― Vanessa Williams, first black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude

1986 ― Britain’s Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson