July 23rd, 2008

July 23rd in History

1999:
Hijack of ANA Flight 61 in Tokyo.

1503:
Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moved outside Neptune's orbit, remaining there for 233 years.

1986:
In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.

1973:
Robert Anton Wilson, the occultist/philosopher, either achieved contact with extraterrestrials from Sirius or started a long-term period of having wild hallucinations, depending on which way you want to look at it.

1962:
Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.