July 23rd, 1983
Around 3,000 Tamils were slaughtered by Shinhalese Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka and some 400,000 Tamils fled to neighboring Tamil Nadu, India and a lot found refuge in Europe and Canada. This incident, known as Black July led directly to beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka. event on July 23, 1983. Read about how to open files in Open File Database.
Events around July 23, 1983
| July 23rd, 1983 | Birth | Andrew Eiden, American actor |
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