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June 23 in History
Historical Events on June 23
229
Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
1180
First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
1280
The Battle of Moclín takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada. The battle resulted in a Granadian victory.
1305
A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
1314
First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
1532
Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
1565
Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta.
1594
The Action of Faial, Azores. The Portuguese carrack "Chagas", loaded with slaves and treasure, is attacked and sunk by English ships with only 13 survivors out of over 1000 on board.
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.
1683
William Penn signs a 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: Three thousand 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: Allied (British, Hanoverian, and Prussian) 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, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
1868
Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
1887
The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
1894
The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1913
Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
1914
Mexican Revolution: Pancho 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 War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date 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
Adolf Hitler goes on a three-hour tour of the architecture of Paris with architect Albert Speer and sculptor Arno Breker in his only visit to the city.
1941
The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
1942
World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
1946
The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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.
1951
The ocean liner, SS United States, is christened and launched.
1956
The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.
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 resumes a scientific career.
1960
The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
1961
Cold War: The Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.
1967
Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
1969
Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
1969
IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
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
Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
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.
2001
The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
2012
Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
2013
Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
2013
Militants stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan and killed ten climbers, as well as a local guide.
2014
The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
2016
The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
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