At A Glance

23 July 2019 at a glance

Day of the week
23 July 2019 was a Tuesday.
Irish Chart Song in 2019
The Irish chart song for 2019 was “Someone You Loved” by Lewis Capaldi.
Top Film of 2019
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2019 was Avengers: Endgame.
Star sign
The star sign for 23 July is Leo.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 23 July 2019 fell in the Year of the Pig.
Birthstone
The birthstone for July is Ruby.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 23 July 2019 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 23 July

  • 1999 Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
  • 2001 Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.
  • 2010 The English-Irish boy band One Direction were formed while auditioning for the 2010 series of the British singing competition The X Factor.
  • 2012 The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
  • 2015 NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.

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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Events of 2019 in Ireland

A selection from Wikipedia's '2019 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

  • 1 January – Technological University Dublin was established by the amalgamation of the Dublin Institute of Technology, the Institute of Technology Tallaght, and the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown.
  • 2 February – The chairman of the National Children's Hospital Development board Tom Costello resigned following the controversy over the spiralling costs of the project.
  • 10 March – 39-year-old Micheál Ryan was among the 157 people who were on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed while en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.

Life in Ireland in 2019

Taoiseach

Leo Varadkar

Petrol (per litre)

€1.45/L

Loaf of Bread

€1.65

Average House

€320,000

Weekly Wage

€550

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