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Typewriter / Egyptian Revolution / Woodstock ‘99

On This Day (July 23): Your quick daily trip back in time.

Fatih Taskiran
July 23, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

🌟 Editor's Note

Good morning. It's Wednesday, July 23, and we're exploring the first typewriter, Gamal Abdel Nasser’s coup, Woodstock ‘99 disaster, the interesting story of a Miss America, and much more.

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🚀 Time Machine

-1777

During the American Revolution, Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister secretly agreed to supply munitions to the United States.

-1829

William Austin Burt patented America's first typewriter, the typographer.

-1840

The Union Act was passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada.

-1944

The Bretton Woods Conference ends, established the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, later part of the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.

-1952

Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser's Free Officers stage a military coup d'état in Egypt to seize power.

-1995

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

-1999

The music festival Woodstock ‘99 opened.

It's timed for the 30th anniversary of Woodstock, so it's a festival that's supposed to bring peace, music, and love to a new generation. But instead, it's three days of scorching heat, raw sewage, misogyny, and greed.