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Day of the year
June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 191 days remain until the end of the year.
Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji , starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish -French peace treaty is signed at Athis-sur-Orge .1314 - First War of Scottish Independence : The Battle of Bannockburn , south of Stirling , begins.1532 - Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V .1565 - Turgut Reis (Dragut ), commander of the Ottoman Navy , dies during the Siege of Malta .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 what is now Hudson Bay ; they are never heard from again.1661 - Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza .1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania .1713 - The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia , Canada .1757 - Battle of Plassey - 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey .1758 - Seven Years' War : Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany .1760 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut - Austria defeats Prussia .1780 - American Revolution : Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills , formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township.1794 - Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev .1810 - John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company .1812 - War of 1812 : Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.1860 - The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office .1865 - American Civil War : At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory , Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for Type-Writer .1887 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada , creating the nation's first national park , Banff National Park .1888 - Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for U.S. president .1894 - The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne , Paris , at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin .1914 - Mexican Revolution : Francisco Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta .1917 - 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.1919 - Estonian Liberation War : The decisive defeat of German Freikorps forces in the Battle of Cesis . This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia .1926 - The College Board administers the first SAT exam.1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States .1940 - World War II : German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.1941 - The Lithuanian Activist Front initiates independence from the Soviet Union ; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.1942 - World War II : The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train load of Jews from Paris.1942 - World War II: Germany's latest fighter , a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales .
1943 - World War II: The British destroyers Eclipse Laforey Italian submarine Ascianghi Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland .1945 - 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.1947 - 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 .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.
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 football 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.1972 - 45 countries leave the Sterling Area , allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
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 .1985 - A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland , killing all 329 aboard.1988 - James Hansen testifies to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it was 99% probable that global warming had begun.1990 - Moldavia declares independence.Births 47 BC - Pharaoh Ptolemy XV of Egypt1373 - Queen Joan II of Naples (d. 1435 )1433 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488 )1456 - Margaret of Denmark , wife 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 )1703 - Maria Leszczyńska , queen of Louis XV of France (d. 1768 )1716 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley , English politician (d. 1789 )1750 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu , French geologist (d. 1801 )1763 - Josephine de Beauharnais , Empress of France (d. 1814 )1799 - John Milton Bernhisel , American physician (d. 1881 )1800 - Karol Marcinkowski , Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846 )1824 - Carl Reinecke , German musician and composer (d. 1910 )1884 - Cyclone Taylor , ice hockey player (d. 1979 )1888 - Bronson M. Cutting , American politician (d. 1935 )1889 - Anna Akhmatova , Russian poet (d. 1966 )1894 - Alfred Kinsey , American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956 )1894 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972 )
1902 - Mathias Wieman , German actor (d. 1969 )1903 - Paul Joseph James Martin , Canadian politician (d. 1992 )1905 - Jack Pickersgill , Canadian politician (d. 1997 )1907 - James Meade , English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )1907 - Dercy Gonçalves , Brazilian comedienne (d. 2008 )
1909 - David Lewis , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1981 )1910 - Jean Anouilh , French dramatist (d. 1987 )1910 - Gordon B. Hinckley , President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2008 )
1910 - Milt Hinton , American jazz bassist (d. 2000 )
1912 - Alan Turing , English mathematician, often considered to be the father of modern computer science (d. 1954 )1916 - Len Hutton , English cricketer (d. 1990 )1919 - Muhammad Boudiaf , Algerian political leader (d. 1992 )1922 - Hal Laycoe , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998 )1925 - Miriam Karlin , English actress1927 - Bob Fosse , American choreographer (d. 1987 )1929 - June Carter Cash , American singer (d. 2003 )1935 - Maurice Ferre , former mayor of Miami 1936 - Costas Simitis , Prime Minister of Greece 1937 - Martti Ahtisaari , President of Finland 1937 - Niki Sullivan , American guitarist (The Crickets )
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 , English musician (The Beatles ) (d. 1962 )
1941 - Robert Hunter , American lyricist and poet (The Grateful Dead )1941 - Roger McDonald , Australian author
1941 - Richard M. Richie Roberts , former Marine and New Jersey Police Detective, Criminal Defense Attorney
1943 - Vint Cerf , American Internet pioneer, Turing Award laureate1943 - James Levine , American conductor
1945 - John Garang , Sudanese leader and politician (d. 2005 )1945 - Kjell Albin Abrahamson , Swedish journalist and writer.1946 - Ted Shackleford , American actor1947 - Bryan Brown , Australian actor1948 - Myles Goodwyn , Canadian guitarist and vocalist (April Wine )1948 - Darhyl S. Ramsey , American author
1948 - Clarence Thomas , U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1949 - Gordon Bray , Australian sports broadcaster1950 - Douglas C. Lord , Canadian businessman1951 - Michèle Mouton , French race car driver1955 - Pierre Corbeil , Canadian politician1955 - Glenn Danzig , American musician (The Misfits and Danzig )
1955 - Maggie Greenwald , American film director and writer
1955 - Jordan , British actress and model
1955 - Jean Tigana , French footballer
1956 - Tony Hill , American football player1956 - Randy Jackson , American music producer
1957 - Frances McDormand , American actress1960 - Donald Harrison , American musician1960 - Tatsuya Uemura , Japanese musician and programmer
1961 - Zoran Janjetov , Serbian comic artist1962 - Chuck Billy , American singer (Testament )1962 - Kari Takko , Finnish ice hockey player
1962 - Kevin Yagher , TV/film special effects technician
1963 - Colin Montgomerie , Scottish golfer1963 - Steve Shelley , American musician (Crucifucks and Sonic Youth )
1964 - Yun Lou , Chinese gymnast1964 - Joss Whedon , American producer, director, and screenwriter
1965 - Paul Arthurs , British guitarist (Oasis )1966 - Chico DeBarge , American musician (DeBarge )1966 - Richie Ren , Taiwanese musician
1967 - Helen Geake , British archaeologist1967 - Paul King , New Zealand politician
1969 - Martin Klebba , American actor1970 - Robert Brooks , American football player1970 - Martin Deschamps , Quebec rock singer
1970 - Yann Tiersen , French musician
1971 - Félix Potvin , Canadian hockey player1972 - Selma Blair , American actress1972 - Ron Corning , American television anchor
1972 - Zinedine Zidane , French footballer
1973 - Marie N , Latvian singer1974 - Joel Edgerton , Australian actor1975 - Kevin Dyson , American football player1975 - KT Tunstall , Scottish singer and songwriter
1976 - Wade Barrett , American soccer player1976 - Joe Becker , American musician
1976 - Patrick Monahan , British comedian
1976 - Brandon Stokley , American football player
1976 - Emmanuelle Vaugier , Canadian actress
1976 - Patrick Vieira , French footballer
1977 - Miguel Ángel Angulo , Spanish footballer1977 - Hayden Foxe , Australian footballer
1977 - Jason Mraz , American singer and songwriter
1978 - Memphis Bleek , American rapper1978 - Frédéric Leclercq , French bassist (DragonForce )
1978 - Matt Light , American football player
1979 - LaDainian Tomlinson , American football player
1980 - Becky Cloonan , American comic book artist1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan , Guyanese cricketer1983 - Jason Berrent , American performer1983 - Brooks Laich , Canadian ice hockey player1984 - Duffy , Welsh Singer1988 - Isabella Leong Lok-Sze , Hong Kong singer, actress and model1988 - Chellsie Memmel , American gymnast
1990 - Samuel Lee , FIFA 08 World Champion1992 - Bridget Sloan , American gymnast1996 - Charlie Jones , British actor1998 - Spiky (future footballer) (name must not be reaveled to protect identity)Deaths 79 - Vespasian , Roman Emperor (b. 9 )1018 - Henry I of Austria 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 statesman1707 - John Mill , English theologian1733 - 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 )1779 - Ras Mikael Sehul , warlord of Ethiopia (b. about 1691 )1806 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson , French naturalist (b. 1723 )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 )1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber , German physicist (b. 1804 )1893 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone , British-born South African statesman (b. 1817 )1926 - Viktor Vasnetsov , Russian painter (b. 1848 )1956 - Reinhold Glière , Russian composer (b. 1875 )1959 - Boris Vian , French writer and musician (b. 1920 )1969 - Volmari Iso-Hollo , Finnish athlete (b. 1907 )1970 - Roscoe Turner , American aviator and racer (b. 1895 )1980 - Clyfford Still , American painter (b. 1904 )1980 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri , Fourth President of India (b. 1894 )1980 - Sanjay Gandhi , Son of Indira Gandhi died in a plane crash. (b.1946 )1981 - Zarah Leander , Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907 )1982 - Vincent Chin , Chinese-American hate crime victim (b. 1955 )1989 - Werner Best , German jurist and nazi leader (b. 1903 )1992 - Eric Andolsek , American football player (b. 1966 )1995 - Jonas Salk , American medical researcher (b. 1914 )1995 - Anatoly Tarasov , Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918 )
1996 - Andreas Papandreou , Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919 )1997 - Betty Shabazz , wife of Malcolm X (b. 1936 )1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan , Irish actress (b. 1911 )1999 - Buster Merryfield , British actor (b. 1920 )2001 - Yvonne Dionne , one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934 )2002 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar , Panamanian boxer (b. 1975 )2003 - Maynard Jackson , Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938 )2005 - Shana Alexander , American columnist (b. 1926 )2005 - Manolis Anagnostakis , Greek poet (b. 1925 )
2006 - Aaron Spelling , American television producer (b. 1923 )2006 - Luke Graham , American wrestler (b. 1940 )
2006 - Harriet , Galápagos tortoise (b. 1830 )
2007 - Rod Beck , American baseball player (b. 1968 )Holidays and observances External links
