June 23

Thursday 23, 2005:

The IWW Centennial in Chicago, Illinois

Sunday 23, 1996:

Clan Knightmare, a Quake gaming clan was formed

Tuesday 23, 1992:

Yitzhak Rabin wins the Israeli parlamentary elections..

Sunday 23, 1991:

Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Genesis in North America.

Saturday 23, 1990:

Moldavia declares independence.

Friday 23, 1989:

The movie Batman is released in the United States.

Sunday 23, 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.

Saturday 23, 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.

Friday 23, 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.

Monday 23, 1969:

Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren.

Sunday 23, 1968:

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

Friday 23, 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.

Saturday 23, 1962:

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

Thursday 23, 1960:

1960 - Japan signs security treaty with the U.S.

Tuesday 23, 1959:

A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.

Monday 23, 1958:

The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.

Saturday 23, 1956:

Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.

Monday 23, 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.

Friday 23, 1944:

Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen.

Monday 23, 1941:

Lithuanian Activist Front initiates Lithuanian 1941 independence from the Soviet Union; it lasted only briefly as the Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.

Sunday 23, 1940:

World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.

Thursday 23, 1938:

Marineland opens near St. Augustine, Florida.

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

Saturday 23, 1894:

International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

Saturday 23, 1888:

Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.

Thursday 23, 1887:

The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park. http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/archives2_E.asp?id=25

Friday 23, 1865:

American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.

Saturday 23, 1860:

The US Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.

Wednesday 23, 1858:

Six-year-old Edgardo Mortara is seized by Papal authorities.

Saturday 23, 1810:

John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.

Monday 23, 1794:

Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.

Monday 23, 1760:

Austria beats Prussia.

Friday 23, 1758:

British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.

Thursday 23, 1757:

3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj-ud-Dawlah at Plassey.

Friday 23, 1724:

Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople.

Friday 23, 1713:

French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada. http://www.acadian-cajun.com/acadia5.htm

Wednesday 23, 1683:

William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.

Thursday 23, 1661:

Marriage contract between Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal.

Thursday 23, 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.

Thursday 23, 1532:

Henry VIII & François I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.

Saturday 23, 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.

Tuesday 23, 1305:

Flemish-French peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge.

Thursday 23, 1295:

Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome.

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