Today in History: NASA announces the discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope in 2015

The following is a list of top 10 global historical events that occurred on July 23:

811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum’s treasury.

1793 – Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.

1862 – American Civil War: Henry Halleck becomes general-in-chief of the Union Army.

1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.

1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.

1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.

1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

1980 – Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.

1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Cardinal 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.

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

2015 – NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.