Notable Historical Events on June 23rd
June 23rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
930 |
World's oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi (anglicised as Althing or Althingi), established |
1295 |
Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome |
1298 |
Duke Albrecht von Habsburg crowned King of Germany |
1305 |
French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge |
1532 |
Henry VIII of England & Francois I of France sign secret treaty against emperor Karel V |
1565 |
Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman Navy, dies during the Siege of Malta. |
1585 |
Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops |
1658 |
Dutch troops occupy last Portugese Fort at Jafnapatnam in Ceylon |
1661 |
Marriage contract for Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal |
1683 |
William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken" |
1713 |
The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada. |
1724 |
Russia & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople |
1757 |
Robert Clive defeats army led by Suraja Dowlaat Plassey, wins control of Bengal |
1758 |
Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany. |
1760 |
Battle of Landshut Silesia: Austria beats Prussia |
1775 |
1st regatta held on Thames, England |
1776 |
Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress |
1780 |
American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township. |
1784 |
1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren) |
1794 |
Russian Empress Catherine II (Catherine the Great) grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev |
1810 |
John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon) |
1821 |
Dutch troops conquer Palembang |
1848 |
Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris |
1854 |
Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use |
1860 |
Congress establishes Government Printing Office |
1863 |
Tullahoma campaign, TN |
1865 |
At Fort Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confederate army |
1868 |
Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer" |
1888 |
Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for US President |
1890 |
In an effort to solve the 'Uitlander' grievances regarding voting rights, President Paul Kruger institutes a Second Volksraad, responsible for controlling local matters. |
1894 |
The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. |
1898 |
Emilio Aguinaldo issues a decree replacing his dictatorial government with a revolutionary government, with himself as President |
1900 |
British Governor Frederick Hodgson and some of his British supporters flee Fort Coomassie, Gold Coast, Africa, where they have been under siege since 6 April |
1900 |
The Young Turks present a manifesto to the major foreign embassies in Constantinople demanding that these foreign powers end the Ottoman Sultan's rule |
1902 |
Gioacchino Rossini's unveils monument to Santa-Croce |
1908 |
The USA suspends diplomatic relationships with Venezuela after the refusal of Cipriano Castro's government to compensate Americans for injuries suffered in the uprising of 1899 |
1908 |
Shah Mohammed Ali leads a successful counter-revolution in Persia, aided by the Russian legation and a Cossack brigade |
1909 |
Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections |
1915 |
Italians launch the first of what will become 11 battles to dislodge the Austrians from the Isonzo River, which keeps the Italians from Trieste |
1915 |
Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0 |
1915 |
Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag) |
1917 |
31st US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beat Marion Vanderhoef (4-6 6-0 6-2) |
1917 |
Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000 |
1917 |
Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out & retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game |
1918 |
Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0 |
1919 |
Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) incorporates |
1919 |
Nitti government forms in Italy |
1922 |
57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St George |
1924 |
8 month Twenste textile strike ends |
1925 |
British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers |
1925 |
Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming) |
1926 |
8th government of Briand van France forms |
1926 |
Commencement of the West Indies' 1st Test cricket match, at Lord's |
1926 |
The College Board administers the first SAT exam in USA |
1927 |
Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox |
1930 |
Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8 |
1931 |
Wiley Post & Harold Catty took off for flight around world |
1932 |
Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a NY uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland) |
1933 |
Don McNeill's Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35½ year run on NBC |
1935 |
Anthony Eden offers Benito Mussolini a Somalian harbor |
1938 |
Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established |
1938 |
Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium |
1938 |
NYC Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 cops to patrol subway |
1939 |
Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to become wrestling champ |
1939 |
France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (Hatay) to Turkey |
1939 |
US Congress establishes US Coast Guard Reserve (renamed US Coast Guard Auxiliary 1941) as uniformed volunteer units supporting the Coast Guard |
1940 |
Marcel Louette seeks opposition group "White Brigade" on Antwerp |
1940 |
RAF bombs Schiphol, Netherlands |
1941 |
Germany occupies Telz, Lithuana |
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 |
Dutch artsens protest against nazis |
1943 |
RAF discovers Werner von Braun's V1/V2-base in Peenemunde |
1944 |
4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153 |
1944 |
Russian offensive in central front sector |
1944 |
Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen |
1945 |
77th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot wins in 2:30.2 |
1945 |
Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan) |
1946 |
In South Africa, a group of white men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters |
1947 |
Compton & Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v South Africa |
1947 |
US President Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by Congress |
1949 |
First twelve women graduate from Harvard Medical School |
1949 |
Dutch Constellation plunge at Bari in sea, 33 die |
1950 |
Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women |
1950 |
Yanks & Tigers hit record 11 HRs, Tigers win 10-9 |
1950 |
Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4 |
1951 |
Treacherous British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR |
1951 |
Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas) |
1952 |
US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea |
1953 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament |
1954 |
122°F (50°C), Overton, Nevada (state record until June 29, 1994) |
1955 |
Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released |
1956 |
"Jimmy Durante Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
1956 |
"Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8 |
1956 |
Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt |
1958 |
Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers |
1958 |
US Federal judge rules race separation must end in 2½ years in Little Rock, Arkansas |
1958 |
Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established |
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. |
1960 |
"Pat Boone Show" last airs on ABC-TV |
1960 |
Japan signs security treaty with the US |
1961 |
The Antarctic Treaty, ensuring that Antarctica is used for peaceful purposes; for international cooperation in scientific research; and does not become the scene or object of international discord, comes into force |
1961 |
Cubs Ernie Banks ends his 717 consecutive-games-played streak |
1961 |
Phillies overcome 9-0, losing 11-2 they score 4 in 8th & 6 in 9th |
1961 |
USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 32,830 m |
1962 |
"Subways Are after Sleeping" closes at St James NYC after 205 perfs |
1962 |
Suvanna Phuma forms government in Laos |
1962 |
Larry Doby retires from Cleve Indians to play in Japan |
1963 |
63rd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 293 at The Country Club Mass |
1963 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
1963 |
NY Mets Jimmy Piersall hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards |
1963 |
President Kennedy tours Western Europe |
1964 |
Gen Maxwell Taylor appointed US ambassador in South Vietnam |
1967 |
Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA) |
1967 |
LBJ & Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, NJ |
1967 |
US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds |
1968 |
74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium. |
1969 |
French government of Couve de Murville resigns |
1969 |
Joe Frazier TKOs Jerry Quarry in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
1969 |
Warren E Burger sworn in as US Supreme Court Chief Justice |
1969 |
Twenty-four Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district appeared in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on charges under the Sabotage Act; it is alleged that they had conspired or incited others to kill White people or police in the Graaff-Reinet district in the Cape Province |
1970 |
"Red Skelton Show" last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV |
1970 |
Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary |
1970 |
Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession |
1971 |
Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 4-0 |
1971 |
WTVP TV channel 47 in Peoria, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1972 |
Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history |
1972 |
Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate |
1972 |
Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports |
1972 |
45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound. |
1973 |
"Cyrano" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 49 performances |
1973 |
"Sugar" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 506 performances |
1973 |
Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched |
1973 |
World Court condemns French nuclear tests in the Pacific |
1974 |
1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space |
1974 |
20th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
1975 |
75th US Golf Open: Lou Graham shoots a 287 at Medinah CC ILL |
1975 |
Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs |
1976 |
CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens |
1976 |
The U.S. vetoes Angola's application for membership of the United Nations Security |
1977 |
13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-4 |
1977 |
Violence erupts in Soweto, South Africa, again and the police make at least 146 arrests |
1978 |
33rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
1979 |
Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia" |
1979 |
Rock group the Knack releases "My Sharona" |
1979 |
West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
1980 |
"David Letterman Show" debuts on NBC-TV daytime |
1980 |
1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation |
1980 |
West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium) |
1980 |
South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails; the Council was part of Botha's plan to effect broad ranging constitutional changes which would allow for a role for both Indian and Coloured people in parliament but which still excluded direct political representation for African people. |
1981 |
"This Was Burlesque" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 28 performances |
1981 |
33 inning game ends, Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2 |
1981 |
Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition |
1981 |
French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists |
1981 |
NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy |
1981 |
Dave Koza scores Marty Barrett with bases-loaded single in bottom of 33rd inning, Pawtucket beats Rochester 3-2 |
1982 |
"Cleavage" opens & closes at Playhouse Theater NYC |
1982 |
-117°F; All time low at South Pole |
1982 |
Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb) |
1982 |
Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200) |
1982 |
Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight |
1983 |
Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat |
1983 |
US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions |
1985 |
Alice Miller wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
1985 |
Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die |
1985 |
Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million |
1986 |
Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84) |
1986 |
Tip O'Neill refuses to let President Reagan address House |
1988 |
Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft |
1988 |
Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager |
1989 |
Movie "Batman" premieres |
1990 |
A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Statue of Liberty |
1990 |
Moldavia declares independence |
1990 |
Police find marijuana at Chuck Berry's home |
1990 |
TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of year |
1990 |
Zimbabwe beat the Netherlands by 6 wickets to win ICC Trophy |
1990 |
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, on a US tour, receives a tumultuous welcome in Boston. |
1991 |
"Odd Couple" opens & closes at Belasco Theater NYC |
1991 |
"Weird Al" Yankovic records "Babalu Music" |
1991 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
1991 |
Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race |
1991 |
A peace summit, brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by the Conservative Party, is held to end the violence in South Africa |
1992 |
"Tin Bigha Day" protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh |
1992 |
Emmy 19th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 13th time |
1992 |
Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election |
1993 |
Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband's John Wayne Bobbitt's penis |
1993 |
UN authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti |
1993 |
Nigeria's military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, annuls results of presidential elections and halts a return to democracy |
1994 |
South Africa reclaims its seat in UN |
1994 |
Replay shows A's Bobby Witt beat KC's Gagne to 1st in 6th but ump Gary Cedarstrom calls him safe, runing Witt's perfect game |
1994 |
South Africa is readmitted to the United Nations Organisations (UNO) |
1994 |
Some 2,500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians, the first outside forces sent there since UN |
1996 |
"Tartuffe: Born Again" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 29 perfs |
1996 |
Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament |
1996 |
Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan |
1996 |
Archbishop Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in South Africa |
1997 |
Dow Jones drops 192.25 pts |
1997 |
In the Central African Republic, soldiers fire on foreign peacekeepers in the third major rebellion since May |
2000 |
The bulk ore carrier MV Treasure sinks off the western coast of South Africa, soiling more than 19 000 penguins; this resulted in the world's largest ever rescue of birds from an oiling event |
2000 |
The Cotonou Agreement, a trade and aid framework, is signed in Cotonou, Benin |
2003 |
Barry Bonds steals second base against the Los Angeles Dodgers, becoming the first player in MLB history to have 500 career home runs and 500 career steals |
2004 |
Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctor of music degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university |
2005 |
San Antonio Spurs beat Detroit Pistons 4-3 in NBA finals MVP: Tim Duncan (his third), San Antonio |
2005 |
59th NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3 |
2012 |
Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years |
2012 |
A bus carrying Czech tourists crashes in Croatia killing 8 and injuring 44 |
2012 |
76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees |
2013 |
9 tourists and 1 tour guide are killed after gunmen storm a hotel near Nanga Parbat, Pakistan |
2013 |
18 Romanians are killed and 32 are injured after a bus crash in Montenegro |
2013 |
India defeats England to win the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy in cricket |
2014 |
Claude Monet's Water Lilies is sold at auction for US$54 million |
2014 |
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is re-elected President of Mauritania |
2016 |
Britain votes on EU membership after tight and bitter campaign |
2016 |
Copa America semi seen by total of 8.1 million viewers in US |
2016 |
House Democrats stage sit-in to demand vote on gun control laws |
2016 |
Kim Jong-un says North Korea missiles can reach US in Pacific |
2017 |
Sixers take Washington PG Markelle Fultz with No. 1 pick |
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