WHAT HAPPENED ON 23. JULY
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General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests. (23. July 1988)

A Vatican commission, led by 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. (23. July 1992)

Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia. (23. July 1992)

Agdam was occupied by Armenian separatists. (23. July 1993)

Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later. (23. July 1995)

Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel. (23. July 1997)

Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father. (23. July 1999)

ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa. (23. July 1999)

Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people. (23. July 2005)

At least 107 people are killed and more than 250 others wounded in a string of bombings and attacks in Iraq. (23. July 2012)