June 23
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June 23 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining after June 23 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1456 – Margaret of Denmark, Queen Consort of Scotland (d. 1486)
- 1534 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
- 1763 – Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (d. 1814)
- 1800 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
- 1824 – Carl Reinecke, German musician and composer (d. 1910)
- 1889 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966)
- 1894 – King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
- 1894 – Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
- 1906 – King Tribhuvan of Nepal (d. 1955)
- 1907 – James Meade, English economist (d. 1995)
- 1910 – Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
- 1910 – Gordon B. Hinckley, American Mormon leader (d. 2008)
- 1912 – Alan Turing, British mathematician (d. 1954)
- 1916 – Ernst Willimowski, Polish footballer (d. 1987)
- 1919 – Hermann Gmeiner, German, founder of SOS Children's Villages (d. 1986)
- 1919 – Muhammad Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992)
- 1927 – Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d. 1987)
- 1929 – June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1936 – Costas Simitis, former Prime Minister of Greece
- 1937 – Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland
- 1940 – Stuart Sutcliffe, British musician (d. 1962)
- 1940 – Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
- 1940 – Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
- 1943 – Albert Pintat, former Prime Minister of Andorra
- 1956 – Randy Jackson, American music producer
- 1960 – Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese musician and programmer
- 1963 – Colin Montgomery, Scottish golfer
- 1964 – Joss Whedon, American television and film director
- 1965 – Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis)
- 1972 – Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
- 1973 – Marie N, Latvian singer
- 1975 – KT Tunstall, Scottish singer
- 1976 – Patrick Vieira, French footballer
- 1977 – Jason Mraz, American singer
- 1980 – Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
- 1981 – Antony Costa, British singer (Blue)
- 1982 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1984 – Duffy, Welsh singer
- 1988 – Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
- 2000 – Finlay Williams, English Hockey Goalkeeper
[change] Deaths
- 79 – Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9)
- 1516 – Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
- 1582 – Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
- 1615 – Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
- 1691 – Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
- 1707 – John Mill, English theologian (b. 1645)
- 1832 – James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
- 1836 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1773)
- 1856 – Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1806)
- 1893 – William Fox, four-times Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
- 1893 – Theophilus Shepstone, British-South African politician (b. 1817)
- 1926 – Jon Magnusson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1859)
- 1980 – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 4th President of India (b. 1894)
- 1980 – Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi (b. 1946)
- 1981 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)
- 1995 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
- 1996 – Andreas Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
- 1997 – Betty Shabazz, American activist (b. 1934)
- 1998 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Buster Merryfield, English actor (b. 1920)
- 2001 – Yvonne Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b. 1934)
- 2006 – Aaron Spelling, American TV producer (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Harriet, Galapagos Tortoise (b. 1830)
- 2008 – Arthur Chung, former President of Guyana (b. 1918)
- 2009 – Ed McMahon, American TV personality (b. 1923)
- 2010 – Mohammed Mzali, Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1925)
- 2011 – Gene Colan, American comic book artist (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1985)
- 2011 – Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
[change] 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 and 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 and Catharina of Portugal.
- 1683 – William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Native Americans 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.
- 1915 – First wholesale slaughter of Armenian men in Harput (Kharpert), Turkey.
- 1925 – Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak at 5959 metres above sea level, in the Yukon, is climbed for the first time, by a team of 6 climbers, led by Albert MacCarthy.
- 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.
- 1938 – 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 declares independence (June independence) of Lithuania from Soviet Union; it lived only briefly however as nazis occupied Lithuania 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.
- 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).
- 1959 – A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
- 1960 – Japan signs security treaty with the U.S.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1992 – Yitzhak Rabin wins the Israeli parliamentary elections.
- 2000 – A ferry sinks on the Yangtze river, near Luzhou, in China's Sichuan province, killing 131 people.
- 2001 – A magnitude 8.4 earthquake strikes off the coast of Peru.
- 2006 – Harriet the tortoise dies as one of the world's oldest living creatures, aged around 176 years.
[change] Observances
- National Day of Luxembourg (Grand Duke's official birthday)
- Saint John's Eve, Midsummer celebrations.
- United Nations Public Service Day
- Victory Day (Estonia)
