July 23rd

Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.

Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched the 18th perfect game in major league history, a 5-0 win over Tampa Bay.

Massachusetts' attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over six decades.

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty died in Jackson, Miss., at age 92.

Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open at age 24.

Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was sworn in as president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.

Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia. The Republic of Abkhazia, is a disputed territory of Georgia and is recognized as an independent state by only a handful of counties including Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, Tuvalu.

Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.).

Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.

International Whaling Commission bans commercial whale hunting. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) passed a resolution to restrict commercial whaling and ban it completely after 1986. 25 countries voted to put the restrictions and ban in place.

Landsat 1 launched. The first satellite in the US's LANDSAT program, the Landsat discovered an uninhabited island off the eastern coast of Canada in 1976. The island is now called Landsat Island.

Rioting that claimed some 43 lives erupted in Detroit.

First live transatlantic television signal. Telstar 1, a communications satellite relayed the world's first transatlantic television signal in the form of a show that featured Walter Cronkite.

Revolution erupted in Egypt as the military took power in a bloodless coup. The following year the monarchy was abolished and, for the first time since the pharaohs, Egypt was again ruled by Egyptians.

French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason.

Austria and Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, precipitating World War I.

Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died at Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.

Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada.

William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner of the typewriter.

Frederick II crowned King of the Romans (King of the Germans) in Aachen.