WikiPedia:Selected anniversaries/July 23
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- 1926 - Fox Film Corporation bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
- 1952 - Farouk of Egypt abdicated after a coup d'état.
- 1962 - Telstar relayed the first live transatlantic television signal.
- 1967 - The 12th Street Riot began in the predominantly African American inner city area of Detroit, Michigan.
- 1983 - Air Canada flight 143, the "Gimli Glider", crash-landed in Gimli, Manitoba without loss of life.
