June 23rd Events |
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| June 23rd, 1990 (June 23 1990) | Event | Moldavia declares independence. | |
| June 23rd, 1988 (June 23 1988) | Event | James Hansen testifies to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it was 99% probable that global warming had begun. | |
| June 23rd, 1985 (June 23 1985) | Event | A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard. | |
| June 23rd, 1973 (June 23 1973) | Event | 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. | |
| June 23rd, 1972 (June 23 1972) | Event | 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. | |
| June 23rd, 1972 (June 23 1972) | Event | 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound. | |
| June 23rd, 1969 (June 23 1969) | Event | Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren. | Earl Warren Quotes |
| June 23rd, 1968 (June 23 1968) | Event | 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium. | |
| June 23rd, 1967 (June 23 1967) | Event | 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. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| June 23rd, 1959 (June 23 1959) | Event | 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). | |
| June 23rd, 1959 (June 23 1959) | Event | A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people. | |
| June 23rd, 1958 (June 23 1958) | Event | The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers. | |
| June 23rd, 1955 (June 23 1955) | Event | In the Strahov Stadium in Prague the 1st all-national Spartakiada begins. | |
| June 23rd, 1947 (June 23 1947) | Event | The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. | |
| June 23rd, 1945 (June 23 1945) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when organised resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island. | |
| June 23rd, 1943 (June 23 1943) | Event | World War II: The British destroyers Eclipse and Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland. | |
| June 23rd, 1942 (June 23 1942) | Event | World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train load of Jews from Paris. | |
| June 23rd, 1942 (June 23 1942) | Event | World War II: Germany s latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. | |
| June 23rd, 1941 (June 23 1941) | Event | The Lithuanian Activist Front initiates independence from the Soviet Union; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis occupy Lithuania a few weeks later. | |
| June 23rd, 1940 (June 23 1940) | Event | World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| June 23rd, 1938 (June 23 1938) | Event | The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States. | |
| June 23rd, 1931 (June 23 1931) | Event | Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane. | |
| June 23rd, 1926 (June 23 1926) | Event | The College Board administers the first SAT exam. | |
| June 23rd, 1919 (June 23 1919) | Event | Estonian Liberation War: The decisive defeat of German Freikorps forces in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia. | |
| June 23rd, 1917 (June 23 1917) | Event | In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire. | Babe Ruth Quotes |
| June 23rd, 1914 (June 23 1914) | Event | Mexican Revolution: Francisco Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta. | |
| June 23rd, 1894 (June 23 1894) | Event | The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. | |
| June 23rd, 1888 (June 23 1888) | Event | Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for U.S. president. | Frederick Douglass Quotes |
| June 23rd, 1887 (June 23 1887) | Event | The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating the nation s first national park, Banff National Park. | The Rock Quotes |
| June 23rd, 1868 (June 23 1868) | Event | Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for Type-Writer. | |
| June 23rd, 1865 (June 23 1865) | Event | American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army. | |
| June 23rd, 1860 (June 23 1860) | Event | The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office. | |
| June 23rd, 1812 (June 23 1812) | Event | War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war. | |
| June 23rd, 1810 (June 23 1810) | Event | John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company. | |
| June 23rd, 1794 (June 23 1794) | Event | Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev. | |
| June 23rd, 1780 (June 23 1780) | Event | American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township. | |
| June 23rd, 1760 (June 23 1760) | Event | Seven Years War: Battle of LandeshutAustria defeats Prussia. | |
| June 23rd, 1758 (June 23 1758) | Event | Seven Years War: Battle of KrefeldBritish forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany. | |
| June 23rd, 1757 (June 23 1757) | Event | Battle of Plassey3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey. | |
| June 23rd, 1713 (June 23 1713) | Event | The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada. | |
| June 23rd, 1683 (June 23 1683) | Event | William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. | William Penn Quotes |
| June 23rd, 1661 (June 23 1661) | Event | Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza. | |
| June 23rd, 1611 (June 23 1611) | Event | The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson s fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again. | |
| June 23rd, 1565 (June 23 1565) | Event | Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman Navy, dies during the Siege of Malta. | |
| June 23rd, 1532 (June 23 1532) | Event | Henry VIII and Francois I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V. | |
| June 23rd, 1314 (June 23 1314) | Event | First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn, south of Stirling, begins. | |
| June 23rd, 1305 (June 23 1305) | Event | The Flemish-French peace treaty is signed at Athis-sur-Orge. | |
