On this day — July 23

It is the deadliest wildfire in the history of Greece.

Forty-eight of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.

Zhejiang province, China, resulting in 40 deaths.

Egypt, killing 88 people.

Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.

with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.

Ningxia, China, killing 55 people.

led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.