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June 23

June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining.

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]
(http://www.acadian-cajun.com/acadia5.htm)
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]
(http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/archives2_E.asp?id=25)
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
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]
(http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and
_Daredevils/Wiley_Post/EX27.htm)
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.
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.
1992 - Yitzhak Rabin wins the Israeli parlamentary elections..
2005 - The IWW Centennial in Chicago,Illinois

Births

47 BC - Prince Caesarion of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XV.
1433 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
1534 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (daimyo) (d. 1582)
1749 - Konrad Beck, composer
1763 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (d. 1814).
1800 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d.
1846)
1887 - Ernst Rowohlt, publisher (d. 1960).
1894 - Alfred Kinsey, entomologist, sexologist (d. 1956).
1894 - Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, Duke of Windsor (d. 1972)
1905 - Mary Livingstone, actress and wife of Jack Benny, (d. 1983)
1906 - Wolfgang Koeppen, author (d. 1996)
1910 - Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
1910 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints
1912 - Alan Turing, mathematician (d. 1954)
1916 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
1916 - Hermann Gmeiner, pedagogue (d. 1986)
1916 - Irene Worth, actress (d. 2002)
1927 - Bob Fosse, choreographer (d. 1987)
1929 - June Carter Cash, country music singer (d. 2003)
1936 - Costas Simitis, Greek Prime Minister
1940 - Adam Faith, singer and actor (d. 2003)
1940 - Lord Irvine of Lairg, British lawyer and Lord Chancellor
1940 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
1943 - James Levine, American conductor
1943 - Vint Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and a Father
of the Internet
1946 - Ted Shackleford, American actor
1948 - Clarence Thomas, United States Supreme Court Justice
1948 - Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author and professor of music
education.
1956 - Glenn Danzig, rock and roll performer
1957 - Frances McDormand, actress
1963 - Colin Montgomerie, golfer
1964 - Joss Whedon, producer, director, screenwriter
1972 - Selma Blair, actress
1972 - Zinedine Zidane, French football player
1973 - Marie N, Latvian singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
1975 - Kevin Dyson, American football player
1976 - Brandon Stokley, American football player
1976 - Patrick Vieira, French footballer
1977 - Jason Mraz, singer/songwriter
1979 - LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer

Deaths

79 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. AD 9)
1018 - Henry I of Austria
1516 - Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
1832 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
1956 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
1959 - Boris Vian, writer and musician (b. 1920)
1980 - Clyfford Still, painter
1995 - Jonas Salk, American medical researcher
1996 - Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
1997 - Dr. Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X
1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress
2002 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer
2003 - Vasil Bykau, Belarusian writer

Holidays and observances

Ancient Latvia - Jani 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