Today is Monday, July 23, the 203rd day of 2007. There are 162 days left in the year.
636 - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
685 - John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1253 - Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
1298 - Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany
1798 - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1803 - Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin
1877 - 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
1900 - Pan-African Congress meets in London
1920 - Kenya becomes a British crown colony
1948 - Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President