2025-07-23

The English-Irish boy band One Direction (pictured) were formed while auditioning for the 2010 series of the British singing competition The X Factor.

Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in (pictured) as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.

In Tulia, Texas, 47 people were arrested for dealing cocaine; years later, 35 of the 47 were pardoned by the Governor of Texas.

Hale–Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th century, was independently discovered by astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.

Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America, was forced to resign after the magazine Penthouse published nude photos of her without consent.

Sri Lankan civil war: The war began with large-scale rioting carried out by Sinhalese against Tamils in response to an ambush by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on a convoy of Sri Lanka Army soldiers.

A helicopter crashed during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie in Valencia, California, killing actor Vic Morrow and two child actors.

A shootout between police and a Black power group began in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking three days of rioting.

The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp began operation, killing 6,500 Jews who had been transported from the Warsaw Ghetto the day before.

Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov was executed by firing squad.