June 23

Sunday 23, 1968:

74 are killed and 150 injured in a soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.

Saturday 23, 1962:

Larry Doby retires from the Cleveland Indians to play in Japan.

Tuesday 23, 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. http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Wiley_Post/EX27.htm

Monday 23, 1794:

Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.

Monday 23, 1760:

Austria beats Prussia.