Born on 23 July 1988

At A Glance

23 July 1988 at a glance

Day of the week

23 July 1988 was a Saturday.

Irish Chart Song in 1988

The Irish chart song for 1988 was “Groovy Kind of Love” by Phil Collins.

Top Film of 1988

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1988 was Rain Man.

Star sign

The star sign for 23 July is Leo.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 23 July 1988 fell in the Year of the Dragon.

Birthstone

The birthstone for July is Ruby.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 23 July 1988 was Waxing Gibbous.

On this day: 23 July

• 1983 Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
• 1988 General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
• 1992 A Vatican commission, 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.
• 1992 Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
• 1995 Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.

Famous people born on 23 July

• Woody Harrelson, American actor and activist (born 1961)
• Daniel Radcliffe, English actor (born 1989)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (1967–2014)
• Kathryn Hahn, American actress (born 1973)

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