July 23

Today in History
• 1579 - Francis Drake departs San Francisco to cross the Pacific Ocean
• 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France
• 1664 - 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston
• 1764 - James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
• 1827 - 1st US swimming school opens (Boston, Massachusetts)
• 1829 - William Austin Burt patents America's first "typographer" (typewriter)
• 1850 - 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K. Hall of NY takes office
• 1866 - Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Apolinario Mabini Day
• International Yada Yada Yada Day
• National Parents’ Day
• National Sprout Day
• Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day
• Sprinkle Day
• World Sjogren's Day
• Panafest

Birthdays
• 645 - Yazid I [Yazid ibn Mu‘awiya Lanatullah], second Umayyad caliph (680–683)
• 1301 - Otto, Duke of Austria and Styria, born in Vienna
• 1503 - Anna of Bohemia and Hungary, Queen of the Romans
• 1775 - Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist (Polarization of light)
• 1828 - Jonathan Hutchinson, English surgeon and scientist
• 1834 - James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore
• 1864 - Apolinario Mabini, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines
• 1886 - Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator (first nonstop airplane crossing of the Atlantic)