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23rd of June 0079 EVENT Titus succeeds his father Vespasian as the tenth Roman Emperor.
23rd of June 1180 EVENT First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
23rd of June 1305 EVENT A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
23rd of June 1314 EVENT First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
23rd of June 1532 EVENT Henry VIII and Francois I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
23rd of June 1565 EVENT Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
23rd of June 1611 EVENT 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.
23rd of June 1661 EVENT Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
23rd of June 1683 EVENT William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
23rd of June 1713 EVENT The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
23rd of June 1757 EVENT Battle of Plassey : 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
23rd of June 1758 EVENT Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld : British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
23rd of June 1760 EVENT Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut : Austria defeats Prussia.
23rd of June 1780 EVENT American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
23rd of June 1794 EVENT Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
23rd of June 1810 EVENT John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
23rd of June 1812 EVENT War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
23rd of June 1812 EVENT Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon I of France invades Russia.
23rd of June 1860 EVENT The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
23rd of June 1865 EVENT American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
23rd of June 1868 EVENT Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for the Typewriter.
23rd of June 1887 EVENT The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
23rd of June 1894 EVENT The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
23rd of June 1913 EVENT Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
23rd of June 1914 EVENT Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
23rd of June 1917 EVENT 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.
23rd of June 1919 EVENT Estonian War of Independence: the decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
23rd of June 1926 EVENT The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
23rd of June 1931 EVENT Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
23rd of June 1938 EVENT The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
23rd of June 1940 EVENT World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
23rd of June 1941 EVENT 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.
23rd of June 1942 EVENT World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
23rd of June 1942 EVENT World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
23rd of June 1943 EVENT World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
23rd of June 1946 EVENT The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
23rd of June 1947 EVENT 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.
23rd of June 1958 EVENT The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
23rd of June 1959 EVENT 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.
23rd of June 1959 EVENT A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
23rd of June 1961 EVENT 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.
23rd of June 1967 EVENT 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.
23rd of June 1968 EVENT 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
23rd of June 1969 EVENT Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
23rd of June 1972 EVENT 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.
23rd of June 1972 EVENT 45 countries leave the Sterling Area allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
23rd of June 1973 EVENT 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.
23rd of June 1982 EVENT Chinese American Vincent Chin is beaten to death in Highland Park, Michigan, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
23rd of June 1985 EVENT A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
23rd of June 1989 EVENT The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a law passed by the U.S. Congress banning all sexually oriented phone message services is unconstitutional.
23rd of June 1991 EVENT Moldova declares its independence.
23rd of June 1998 EVENT Paul Reitsma resigns his seat in the British Columbia legislature; the first elected politician in the British Commonwealth to be removed from office by legally-binding petition.
23rd of June 1373 BIRTHDAY Queen Joan II of Naples (d. 1435)
23rd of June 1433 BIRTHDAY Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
23rd of June 1456 BIRTHDAY Margaret of Denmark, wife of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)
23rd of June 1534 BIRTHDAY Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
23rd of June 1596 BIRTHDAY Johan Baner, Swedish soldier (d. 1641)
23rd of June 1612 BIRTHDAY Andre Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (d. 1660)
23rd of June 1668 BIRTHDAY Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
23rd of June 1683 BIRTHDAY Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
23rd of June 1703 BIRTHDAY Queen Marie Leszczynska, Polish-born wife of Louis XV of France (d. 1768)
23rd of June 1716 BIRTHDAY Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789)
23rd of June 1750 BIRTHDAY Deodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801)
23rd of June 1763 BIRTHDAY Josephine de Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon I Bonaparte (d. 1814)
23rd of June 1799 BIRTHDAY John Milton Bernhisel, American physician (d. 1881)
23rd of June 1800 BIRTHDAY Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
23rd of June 1824 BIRTHDAY Carl Reinecke, German musician and composer (d. 1910)
23rd of June 1863 BIRTHDAY Sandor Brody, Hungarian writer (d. 1924)
23rd of June 1884 BIRTHDAY Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1979)
23rd of June 1888 BIRTHDAY Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
23rd of June 1889 BIRTHDAY Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966)
23rd of June 1894 BIRTHDAY King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
23rd of June 1894 BIRTHDAY Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
23rd of June 1902 BIRTHDAY Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969)
23rd of June 1903 BIRTHDAY Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (d. 1992)
23rd of June 1905 BIRTHDAY Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
23rd of June 1907 BIRTHDAY Dercy Goncalves, Brazilian comedienne (d. 2008)
23rd of June 1907 BIRTHDAY James Meade, English economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
23rd of June 1909 BIRTHDAY David Lewis, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1981)
23rd of June 1910 BIRTHDAY Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious figure (d. 2008)
23rd of June 1910 BIRTHDAY Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
23rd of June 1910 BIRTHDAY Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000)
23rd of June 1912 BIRTHDAY Alan Turing, English mathematician (d. 1954)
23rd of June 1916 BIRTHDAY Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
23rd of June 1919 BIRTHDAY Muhammad Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992)
23rd of June 1922 BIRTHDAY Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
23rd of June 1925 BIRTHDAY Miriam Karlin, English actress
23rd of June 1927 BIRTHDAY Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d. 1987)
23rd of June 1928 BIRTHDAY Jean Cione, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (d. 2010)
23rd of June 1929 BIRTHDAY June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
23rd of June 1929 BIRTHDAY Donn F. Eisele, American astronaut (d. 1987)
23rd of June 1935 BIRTHDAY Maurice Ferre, American politician
23rd of June 1936 BIRTHDAY Costas Simitis, Greek politician
23rd of June 1937 BIRTHDAY Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish statesman, Nobel laureate
23rd of June 1937 BIRTHDAY Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (d. 2004)
23rd of June 1940 BIRTHDAY Lord Irvine of Lairg, Scottish Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
23rd of June 1940 BIRTHDAY Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
23rd of June 1940 BIRTHDAY Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
23rd of June 1940 BIRTHDAY Stuart Sutcliffe, English painter and bassist (The Beatles) (d. 1962)
23rd of June 1941 BIRTHDAY Robert Hunter, American lyricist and poet (The Grateful Dead)
23rd of June 1941 BIRTHDAY Richard M. Roberts, American attorney
23rd of June 1941 BIRTHDAY Roger McDonald, Australian writer
23rd of June 1943 BIRTHDAY James Levine, American conductor
23rd of June 1943 BIRTHDAY Vint Cerf, American computer scientist
23rd of June 1945 BIRTHDAY Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and writer
23rd of June 1945 BIRTHDAY John Garang, Sudanese politician (d. 2005)
23rd of June 1946 BIRTHDAY Ted Shackelford, American actor
23rd of June 1947 BIRTHDAY Bryan Brown, Australian actor
23rd of June 1948 BIRTHDAY Myles Goodwyn, Canadian guitarist and vocalist (April Wine)
23rd of June 1948 BIRTHDAY Luther Kent, American blues singer
23rd of June 1948 BIRTHDAY Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
23rd of June 1948 BIRTHDAY Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author
23rd of June 1949 BIRTHDAY Gordon Bray, Australian sports broadcaster
23rd of June 1951 BIRTHDAY Michele Mouton, French racecar driver
23rd of June 1951 BIRTHDAY Angelo Falcon, American political scientist, Latino community advocate
23rd of June 1951 BIRTHDAY Jim Metzler, American actor
23rd of June 1955 BIRTHDAY Glenn Danzig, American musician
23rd of June 1955 BIRTHDAY Pierre Corbeil, Canadian politician
23rd of June 1955 BIRTHDAY Jordan, British actress and model
23rd of June 1955 BIRTHDAY Maggie Greenwald, American film director and writer
23rd of June 1955 BIRTHDAY Jean Tigana, French footballer
23rd of June 1956 BIRTHDAY Tony Hill, American football player
23rd of June 1956 BIRTHDAY Randy Jackson, American music producer
23rd of June 1957 BIRTHDAY Frances McDormand, American actress
23rd of June 1960 BIRTHDAY Donald Harrison, American jazz saxophonist
23rd of June 1960 BIRTHDAY Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese arcade game programmer
23rd of June 1961 BIRTHDAY Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist
23rd of June 1961 BIRTHDAY LaSalle Thompson, American basketball player
23rd of June 1962 BIRTHDAY Steve Shelley, American drummer (The Crucifucks, Sonic Youth)
23rd of June 1962 BIRTHDAY Chuck Billy, American singer (Testament)
23rd of June 1962 BIRTHDAY Kari Takko, Finnish ice hockey player
23rd of June 1962 BIRTHDAY Kevin Yagher, American special effects technician
23rd of June 1963 BIRTHDAY Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
23rd of June 1964 BIRTHDAY Yun Lou, Chinese gymnast
23rd of June 1964 BIRTHDAY Joss Whedon, American producer, director, and screenwriter
23rd of June 1965 BIRTHDAY Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis)
23rd of June 1965 BIRTHDAY Mitch Longley American actor
23rd of June 1965 BIRTHDAY Natalia Germanou Greek lyricist, television hostess, radio producer, DJ and journalist
23rd of June 1966 BIRTHDAY Chico DeBarge, American R&B singer (DeBarge)
23rd of June 1966 BIRTHDAY Richie Ren, Taiwanese singer and actor
23rd of June 1967 BIRTHDAY Helen Geake, British archaeologist
23rd of June 1968 BIRTHDAY Vaios Karagiannis, Greek footballer
23rd of June 1969 BIRTHDAY Martin Klebba, American actor
23rd of June 1970 BIRTHDAY Robert Brooks, American football player
23rd of June 1970 BIRTHDAY Martin Deschamps, Canadian singer (Offenbach)
23rd of June 1970 BIRTHDAY Yann Tiersen, French composer
23rd of June 1971 BIRTHDAY Fred Ewanuick, Canadian actor
23rd of June 1971 BIRTHDAY Felix Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player
23rd of June 1972 BIRTHDAY Selma Blair, American actress
23rd of June 1972 BIRTHDAY Ron Corning, American television anchor
23rd of June 1972 BIRTHDAY Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
23rd of June 1973 BIRTHDAY Marija Naumova, Latvian singer
23rd of June 1974 BIRTHDAY Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
23rd of June 1974 BIRTHDAY Mark Hendrickson, American baseball player
23rd of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Kevin Dyson, American football player
23rd of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Mik Kersten, Canadian computer scientist
23rd of June 1975 BIRTHDAY KT Tunstall, Scottish singer and songwriter
23rd of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Mike James, American basketball player
23rd of June 1976 BIRTHDAY Wade Barrett, American soccer player
23rd of June 1976 BIRTHDAY Joe Becker, American guitarist
23rd of June 1976 BIRTHDAY Brandon Stokley, American football player
23rd of June 1976 BIRTHDAY Savvas Poursaitidis, Greek-Cypriot footballer
23rd of June 1976 BIRTHDAY Patrick Monahan, British comedian
23rd of June 1976 BIRTHDAY Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress
23rd of June 1976 BIRTHDAY Patrick Vieira, French footballer
23rd of June 1977 BIRTHDAY Miguel Angel Angulo, Spanish footballer
23rd of June 1977 BIRTHDAY Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer
23rd of June 1977 BIRTHDAY Shaun O'Hara, American football player
23rd of June 1977 BIRTHDAY Jason Mraz, American singer and songwriter
23rd of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Memphis Bleek, American rapper
23rd of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Matt Light, American football player
23rd of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Frederic Leclercq, French bassist (DragonForce)
23rd of June 1979 BIRTHDAY LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
23rd of June 1980 BIRTHDAY Becky Cloonan, American comic book artist
23rd of June 1980 BIRTHDAY Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
23rd of June 1980 BIRTHDAY Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
23rd of June 1981 BIRTHDAY Rolf Wacha, German rugby player
23rd of June 1981 BIRTHDAY Antony Costa, British singer and songwriter (Blue)
23rd of June 1983 BIRTHDAY Jason Berrent, American actor and performer
23rd of June 1983 BIRTHDAY Brooks Laich, Canadian ice hockey player
23rd of June 1984 BIRTHDAY Duffy, Welsh singer and songwriter
23rd of June 1984 BIRTHDAY Takeshi Matsuda, Japanese swimmer
23rd of June 1984 BIRTHDAY Dave Walsh, American professional gamer
23rd of June 1984 BIRTHDAY James Thomas, Jr., American reality show contestant
23rd of June 1987 BIRTHDAY Alessia Filippi, Italian swimmer
23rd of June 1988 BIRTHDAY Isabella Leong, Macau-born Hong Kong singer, actress and model
23rd of June 1988 BIRTHDAY Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
23rd of June 1989 BIRTHDAY Marielle Jaffe, American model and actress
23rd of June 1996 BIRTHDAY Charlie Jones, British actor
23rd of June 0079 DEATH Emperor Vespasian of Rome (Born 9)
23rd of June 1018 DEATH Henry I, Margrave of Austria (birth year unknown)
23rd of June 1222 DEATH Constance of Aragon, consort of Ladislaus III of Hungary and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born c. 1179)
23rd of June 1555 DEATH Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (Born 1470)
23rd of June 1582 DEATH Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (Born 1537)
23rd of June 1615 DEATH Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (Born 1545)
23rd of June 1677 DEATH Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Wurttemberg (Born 1647)
23rd of June 1686 DEATH William Coventry, English statesman (Born c. 1628)
23rd of June 1707 DEATH John Mill, English theologian (Born c. 1645)
23rd of June 1733 DEATH Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (Born 1672)
23rd of June 1770 DEATH Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (Born 1721)
23rd of June 1775 DEATH Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pollnitz, German adventurer and writer (Born 1692)
23rd of June 1779 DEATH Mikael Sehul, Ethiopian warlord (Born c. 1691)
23rd of June 1806 DEATH Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (Born 1723)
23rd of June 1811 DEATH Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, Portuguese poet and satirist (Born 1740)
23rd of June 1832 DEATH James Hall, Scottish geologist (Born 1761)
23rd of June 1836 DEATH James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian, (Born 1773)
23rd of June 1856 DEATH Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (Born 1806)
23rd of June 1891 DEATH Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (Born 1804)
23rd of June 1893 DEATH Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (Born 1817)
23rd of June 1926 DEATH Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (Born 1848)
23rd of June 1949 DEATH Aristidis Stergiadis, Greek governor-general of Smyrna, (Born 1861)
23rd of June 1956 DEATH Reinhold Gliere, Russian composer (Born 1875)
23rd of June 1959 DEATH Boris Vian, French writer and musician (Born 1920)
23rd of June 1969 DEATH Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (Born 1907)
23rd of June 1970 DEATH Roscoe Turner, American aviator (Born 1895)
23rd of June 1980 DEATH Clyfford Still, American painter (Born 1904)
23rd of June 1980 DEATH Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician; son of Indira Gandhi (Born 1946)
23rd of June 1980 DEATH Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Indian politician (Born 1894)
23rd of June 1981 DEATH Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (Born 1907)
23rd of June 1982 DEATH Vincent Chin, Chinese-born American murder victim (Born 1955)
23rd of June 1989 DEATH Werner Best, German jurist and Nazi party leader (Born 1903)
23rd of June 1992 DEATH Eric Andolsek, American football player (Born 1966)
23rd of June 1995 DEATH Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (Born 1914)
23rd of June 1995 DEATH Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (Born 1918)
23rd of June 1996 DEATH Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (Born 1919)
23rd of June 1997 DEATH Betty Shabazz, American educator and widow of Malcolm X (Born 1936)
23rd of June 1998 DEATH Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (Born 1911)
23rd of June 1999 DEATH Buster Merryfield, British actor (Born 1920)
23rd of June 2000 DEATH Peter Dubovsky, Slovak footballer (Born 1972)
23rd of June 2000 DEATH Peter L. Pond, American activist and philanthropist (Born 1933)
23rd of June 2001 DEATH Yvonne Dionne, Canadian quintuplet (Born 1934)
23rd of June 2002 DEATH Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (Born 1975)
23rd of June 2005 DEATH Shana Alexander, American journalist (Born 1926)
23rd of June 2005 DEATH Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (Born 1925)
23rd of June 2006 DEATH Aaron Spelling, American television producer (Born 1923)
23rd of June 2006 DEATH Luke Graham, American wrestler (Born 1940)
23rd of June 2007 DEATH Rod Beck, American baseball player (Born 1968)
23rd of June 2008 DEATH Marian Glinka, Polish actor (Born 1943)
23rd of June 2008 DEATH Arthur Chung, Guyanan politician (Born 1918)
23rd of June 2008 DEATH Judith Holzmeister, Austrian actress (Born 1920)
23rd of June 2008 DEATH Claudio Capone, Italian-born Scottish voice actor (Born 1952)
23rd of June 2009 DEATH John Callaway, American journalist (Born 1936)
23rd of June 2009 DEATH Hanne Hiob, German actress (Born 1923)
23rd of June 2009 DEATH Ed McMahon, American television personality (Born 1923)
23rd of June 2009 DEATH Jerri Nielsen, American physician (Born 1952)
23rd of June 2009 DEATH Manuel Saval, Mexican actor (Born 1956)