(Monday, July 23, 1984) — Vanessa Williams, the first African-American woman to win the Miss America crown, gave up her title today in the first resignation in the pageant’s history after Penthouse magazine announced plans to publish nude photos of the beauty queen in its September issue.

(Tuesday, July 23, 1974) — The military rulers of Greece announced today that they had decided to turn the nation back to civilian political leaders. Konstantinos Karamanlis, the former conservative Premiere who governed from 1955 to 1963 before his self-imposed exile in Paris, returned to Athens and was sworn in as head of a new government of national unity.