June 23
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June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining.
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Events
- 1295 - Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome.
- 1305 - Flemish-French peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
- 1314 - Start of the Battle of Bannockburn south of Stirling, Edward II of England & Robert I of Scotland met in battle. Scotland won and Edward fled the field and Scotland.
- 1532 - Henry VIII & François I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
- 1611 - The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in the Atlantic Ocean; they are never heard from again.
- 1661 - Marriage contract between Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal.
- 1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
- 1713 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada. [1]
- 1724 - Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople.
- 1757 - Battle of Plassey - 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj-ud-Dawlah at Plassey.
- 1758 - Seven Years War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
- 1760 - Seven Years War: Battle of Landshut - Austria beats Prussia.
- 1794 - Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
- 1810 - John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
- 1858 - Six-year-old Edgardo Mortara is seized by Papal authorities.
- 1860 - The US Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
- 1865 - American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
- 1887 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park. [2]
- 1888 - Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.
- 1894 - International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
- 1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. [3]
- 1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
- Marineland opens near St. Augustine, Florida.
- 1940 - World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
- 1941 - Lithuanian Activist Front initiates Lithuanian 1941 independence from the Soviet Union; it lasted only briefly as the Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.
- 1944 - Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen.
- 1947 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
- 1955 - In the Strahov Stadium in Prague the 1st all-national Spartakiáda begins.
- 1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.
- 1958 - The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
- 1959 - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
- 1960 - Japan signs security treaty with the U.S.
- 1962 - Larry Doby retires from the Cleveland Indians to play in Japan.
- 1967 - Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
- 1968 - 74 are killed and 150 injured in a soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
- 1969 - Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren.
- 1972 - Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
- 1979 - Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line during 1980.
- 1985 - A Boeing 747 carrying Air India Flight 182 blew-up 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, South of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
- 1989 - The movie Batman is released in the United States.
- 1990 - Moldavia declares independence.
- 1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Genesis in North America.
- 1992 - Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering on April 2.
- Yitzhak Rabin wins the Israeli parlamentary elections..
- 1996 - Clan Knightmare, a Quake gaming clan was formed
- 2005 - The IWW Centennial in Chicago, Illinois
Births
47 BC to 1899
- 47 BC - Pharaoh Ptolemy XV of Egppt
- 1433 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
- 1456 - Margaret of Denmark, queen of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)
- 1534 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
- 1596 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (d. 1641)
- 1612 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660)
- 1668 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
- 1683 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
- 1763 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (d. 1814).
- 1800 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
- 1889 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966)
- 1894 - Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
- King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
1900 to 1999
- 1907 - James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
- 1912 - Alan Turing, English mathematician (d. 1954)
- 1916 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
- 1927 - Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d. 1987)
- 1929 - June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1936 - Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece
- 1940 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
- Lord Irvine of Lairg, Scottish Lord Chancellor
- Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
- 1941 - Robert Hunter, American singer and songwriter (The Grateful Dead)
- 1943 - James Levine, American conductor
- Vint Cerf, American Internet pioneer
- 1946 - Ted Shackleford, American actor
- 1948 - Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author and professor of music education
- 1956 - Glenn Danzig, American musician (The Misfits and Danzig)
- 1957 - Frances McDormand, American actress
- 1962 - Chuck Billy, American singer
- 1963 - Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
- 1964 - Joss Whedon, American producer, director, and screenwriter
- 1966 - Chico DeBarge, American musician (DeBarge)
- 1972 - Selma Blair, American actress
- Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
- 1973 - Marie N, Latvian singer
- 1975 - Kevin Dyson, American football player
- 1976 - Brandon Stokley, American football player
- Patrick Vieira, French footballer
- 1977 - Jason Mraz, American singer and songwriter
- 1979 - LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
- 1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
- 1986 - Natalie Smith, Fantastic person
- 1996 - Daniela Rice, American girl
Deaths
79 to 1899
- 79 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. AD 9)
- 1018 - Henry I of Austria
- 1516 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
- 1555 - Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
- 1582 - Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
- 1615 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
- 1677 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
- 1686 - William Coventry, English statesman
- 1707 - John Mill, English theologian
- 1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
- 1770 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
- 1775 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
- 1832 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
- 1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
- 1893 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone British South African statesmen (b. 1817)
1900 to 1999
- 1956 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
- 1959 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920)
- 1969 - Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907)
- 1980 - Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
- 1995 - Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914)
- 1996 - Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
- 1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
2000 onwards
- 2002 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
- 2003 - Vasil Bykau, Belarusian writer (b. 1924)
- Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938)
Holidays and observances
- Ancient Latvia - Jāņi held.
- Midsummer's Eve, Christianized the eve of the feast of Saint John the Baptist, is celebrated in much of Northern Europe and the British Islands
- Victory Day - Estonia
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