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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 - Bell X2 — 10 / 28

U.S. Air Force

1956: A Bell X-2 rocket plane sets the record for fastest speed by an aircraft, reaching Mach 2.87, or more than 1,900 mph, 60,000 feet above the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

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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