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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1305 - Flemish-French peace treaty signed at
Athis-sur-Orge.
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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.
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1532 -
Henry VIII &
François I sign secret treaty against Emperor
Charles V.
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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.
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1661 - Marriage contract between
Charles II of England &
Catharina of Portugal.
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1683 -
William Penn signs friendship treaty with
Lenni Lenape Indians in
Pennsylvania.
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1713 - French residents of
Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave
Nova Scotia Canada. [
1]
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1757 -
Battle of Plassey - 3000
British troops under
Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong
Indian army under
Siraj Ud Daulah at
Plassey.
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1758 -
Seven Years' War:
Battle of Krefeld -
British forces defeat
French troops at
Krefeld in
Germany.
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1760 -
Seven Years' War:
Battle of Landshut -
Austria beats
Prussia.
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1794 - Empress
Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in
Kiev.
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1810 -
John Jacob Astor forms the
Pacific Fur Company.
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1812 -
War of 1812:
Great Britain had revoked the restrictions on
American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
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1858 - Six-year-old
Edgardo Mortara is seized by Papal authorities.
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1860 - The US
Congress establishes the
Government Printing Office.
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1865 -
American Civil War: At
Fort Towson in
Oklahoma Territory Confederate General
Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel
army.
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1887 - The
Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in
Canada, creating that nation's first
national park,
Banff National Park. [
2]
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1888 -
Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.
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1894 -
International Olympic Committee is founded at the
Sorbonne,
Paris, at the initiative of Baron
Pierre de Coubertin.
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1919 - Defeat of German forces at Cesis in northern Latvia during
Estonian Liberation War, now celebrated annually as Estonian Victory Day.
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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]
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1938 - The
Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the
Civil Aeronautics Authority in the
United States.
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1940 -
World War II:
German leader
Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated
Paris in now occupied
France.
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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.
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1945 - The Imperial Japanese armed forces ended organized resistance to the U.S. armed forces in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island of
Okinawa.
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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.
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1955 - In the
Strahov Stadium in
Prague the 1st all-national
Spartakiáda begins.
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1956 -
Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.
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1958 - The
Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
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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).
* 1959 - A fire in a resort hotel in
Stalheim,
Norway kills 34 people.
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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.
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1968 - 74 are killed and 150 injured in a
soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a
Buenos Aires stadium.
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1969 -
Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the
United States Supreme Court by retiring chief
Earl Warren.
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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.
* 1972 - 45 countries leave the
Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
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1973 - A fire at a house in
Hull,
England, which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist
Peter Dinsdale.
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1985 - A bomb planted by terrorists in
Air India Flight 182, a
Boeing 747, blew-up 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the
Atlantic Ocean, South of
Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
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1990 -
Moldavia declares independence.
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47 BC - Pharaoh
Ptolemy XV of Egypt
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1433 -
Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d.
1488)
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1456 -
Margaret of Denmark, wife of
James III of Scotland (d.
1486)
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1534 -
Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d.
1582)
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1596 -
Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (d.
1641)
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1612 -
André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d.
1660)
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1668 -
Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d.
1744)
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1683 -
Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d.
1745)
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1716 -
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d.
1789)
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1750 -
Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d.
1801)
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1763 -
Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (d.
1814)
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1800 -
Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d.
1846)
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1824 -
Carl Reinecke, German musician and composer (d.
1910)
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1884 -
Cyclone Taylor, professional ice hockey player (d.
1979)
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1888 -
Bronson M. Cutting, American politician
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1889 -
Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d.
1966)
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1894 -
Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d.
1956)
* 1894 - King
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d.
1972)
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1903 -
Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (d.
1992)
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1907 -
James Meade, English economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1995)
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1909 -
David Lewis, Canadian lawyer and politician (d.
1981)
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1910 -
Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d.
1987)
* 1910 -
Gordon B. Hinckley, president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints* 1910 -
Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d.
2000)
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1912 -
Alan Turing, English mathematician (d.
1954)
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1916 -
Len Hutton, English cricketer (d.
1990)
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1919 -
Muhammad Boudiaf,
Algerian political leader (d.
1992)
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1927 -
Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d.
1987)
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1929 -
June Carter Cash, American singer (d.
2003)
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1935 -
Maurice Ferre, former Puerto Rican mayor of Miami
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1936 -
Costas Simitis,
Prime Minister of Greece*
1937 -
Martti Ahtisaari,
President of Finland*
1940 -
Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d.
2003)
* 1940 -
Lord Irvine of Lairg, Scottish
Lord Chancellor* 1940 -
Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d.
1994)
* 1940 -
Stuart Sutcliffe, first bassist with
The Beatles (d.
1962)
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1941 -
Robert Hunter, American lyricist and poet (
The Grateful Dead)
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1943 -
James Levine, American conductor
* 1943 -
Vint Cerf, American Internet pioneer
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1946 -
Ted Shackleford, American actor
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1947 -
Bryan Brown, Australian actor
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1948 -
Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
* 1948 -
Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author and professor of music education
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1955 -
Glenn Danzig, American musician (
The Misfits and
Danzig)
* 1955 -
Jean Tigana, French footballer
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1957 -
Frances McDormand, American actress
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1961 -
Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist
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1962 -
Chuck Billy, American singer
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1963 -
Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
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1964 -
Joss Whedon, American producer, director, and screenwriter
* 1964 -
Yun Lou, Chinese gymnast
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1965 -
Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (
Oasis)
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1966 -
Chico DeBarge, American musician (
DeBarge)
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1971 -
Felix Potvin, Canadian professional hockey goaltender
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1972 -
Selma Blair, American actress
* 1972 -
Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
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1973 -
Marie N, Latvian singer
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1975 -
Kevin Dyson, American football player
* 1975 -
KT Tunstall, Scottish singer and songwriter
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1976 -
Brandon Stokley, American football player
* 1976 -
Patrick Monahan, British comedian
* 1976 -
Patrick Vieira, French footballer
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1977 -
Jason Mraz, American singer and songwriter
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1979 -
LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
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1980 -
Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
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79 -
Vespasian,
Roman Emperor (b.
9)
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1018 -
Henry I of Austria*
1516 - King
Ferdinand II of Aragon (b.
1452)
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1555 -
Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b.
1470)
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1582 -
Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b.
1537)
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1615 -
Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b.
1545)
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1677 -
Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b.
1647)
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1686 -
William Coventry, English statesman
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1707 -
John Mill, English theologian
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1733 -
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b.
1672)
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1770 -
Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b.
1721)
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1775 -
Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b.
1692)
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1806 -
Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b.
1723)
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1832 -
James Hall, Scottish geologist (b.
1761)
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1891 -
Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b.
1804)
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1893 - Sir
Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b.
1817)
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1926 -
Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b.
1848)
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1956 -
Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b.
1875)
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1959 -
Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b.
1920)
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1969 -
Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b.
1907)
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1980 -
Clyfford Still, American painter (b.
1904)
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1991 -
Eric Andolsek, African American football player (b.
1966)
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1995 -
Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b.
1914)
* 1995 -
Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b.
1918)
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1996 -
Andreas Papandreou,
Prime Minister of Greece (b.
1919)
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1998 -
Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b.
1911)
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1999 -
Buster Merryfield, British actor (b.
1920)
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2001 -
Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian
Dionne quintuplets (b.
1934)
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2002 -
Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b.
1975)
* 2003 -
Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b.
1938)
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2005 -
Shana Alexander, American columnist (b.
1926)
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2006 -
Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b.
1923)
* 2006 -
Luke Graham, Wrestler, and 1-half of First-ever Tag Team Champions (b.
1940)
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Jāņi (Līgo) -
Latvia*
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*
Father's Day -
Poland*
Grand Duke's Official Birthday -
LuxembourgLiturgical feasts
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Saint Etheldreda *
Saint Jonas Day - especially celebrated in
Lithuania*
Saint Lietbert of Brakel (died 1076)
* Blessed
Mary of Oignies (died 1213)
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BBC: On This Day*
Cardiff University study that June 23rd is the "Happiest Day of the Year."June 22 -
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May 23 -
July 23 --
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