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On this day: July 23

POSTED: 05:00 PM PDT Jul 22, 2012 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Jul 22, 2012

Miss America gives up her crown, Fergie gets a royal wedding, a new comet is discovered and a singer's life comes to a tragic ending, all on this day.

OTD July 23 - ice cream cone — 6 / 28

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1904: Charles E. Menches, according to some accounts, invents the ice cream cone during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair.

OTD July 23 - Boston Lighthouse

OTD July 23 - typographer

OTD July 23 - Ulysses S Grant

OTD July 23 - Raymond Chandler

OTD July 23 - Ford Model A

OTD July 23 - ice cream cone

OTD July 23 - Franz Ferdinand

OTD July 23 - Don Imus

OTD July 23 - D.W. Griffith

OTD July 23 - Bell X2

OTD July 23 - Woody Harrelson

OTD July 23 - Telstar

OTD July 23 - Slash

OTD July 23 - Bob Dylan

OTD July 23 - Philip Seymour Hoffman

OTD July 23 - Detroit riot

OTD July 23 - Alison Krauss

OTD July 23 - Landsat 1

OTD July 23 - whaling

OTD July 23 - Vanessa Williams

OTD July 23 - Sarah Ferguson

OTD July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe

OTD July 23 - Pope Benedict

OTD July 23 - Comet Hale-Bopp

OTD July 23 - Tiger Woods

OTD July 23 - hailstone

OTD July 23 - Amy Winehouse

OTD July 23 - Sally Ride dies

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