Lost and Found – July 23rd Edition

What to remember about July 23rd…

• 1793  American patriot Roger Sherman dies; only signer of  – the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution
• 1862  Abraham Lincoln appoints Henry W. Halleck as General-in-Chief of all Union armies
• 1885  President Ulysses S. Grant dies in New York
• 1952  King Farouk I of Egypt overthrown in military coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser
• 1958  USS Nautilus sets sail from Pearl Harbor for historic first submerged voyage under the North Pole
• 1967  Beginning with raid on illegal bar, 12th Street Riots begin in Detroit; 43 die and 2000 buildings destroyed by time the Army arrives
• 1984  Miss America Vanessa Williams resigns title after Penthouse Magazine plans to print nude photos of her
• 2005  Islamic Muslim Brotherhood terrorists kill 88 and wound over 200 in multiple bombings in resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
• UPDATE:  2012  Astronaut and physicist Dr. Sally Kristen Ride dies of cancer (b. 1951); 1st American woman in space