Today in History: July 23
Today is Saturday, July 23, the 205th day of 2016. There are 161 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I. On July 23, 1892, Haile Selassie I, the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, was born.
On this date:
In 1829, William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner
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