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On June 23, 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
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On June 23, 1894, Edward VIII, the British monarch who abdicated in 1936 in order to marry American Wallis Simpson, was born. Following his death on May 28, 1972, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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| 1868
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Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
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| 1892
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The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.
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| 1923
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Choreographer-director Bob Fosse was born in Chicago.
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| 1931
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Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
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| 1947
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The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.
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| 1956
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Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
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| 1969
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Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.
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| 1992
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John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.
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| 1993
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Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
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| 2005
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Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
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Historic Birthdays
Edward VIII
6/23/1894 - 5/28/1972
King of England (1936); abdicated his throne.
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John Fell 6/23/1625 - 7/10/1686
English Anglican priest, author and typographer
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| 75
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Giambattista Vico 6/23/1668 - 1/23/1744
Italian philosopher
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Josephine 6/23/1763 - 5/29/1814
French consort of Napoleon and empress of France (1804-10)
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| 85
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Carl Reinecke 6/23/1824 - 3/10/1910
German pianist, composer, conductor and teacher
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Irvin S. Cobb 6/23/1876 - 3/10/1944
American journalist and humorist
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Alfred Charles Kinsey 6/23/1894 - 8/25/1956
American zoologist; headed Indiana University's Institute for Sexual Research
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| 89
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Paul Joseph Martin 6/23/1903 - 9/14/1992
Canadian politician and diplomat
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James Edward Meade 6/23/1907 - 12/22/1995
English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1977)
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Jean Anouilh 6/23/1910 - 10/3/1987
French playwright
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Bob Fosse 6/23/1927 - 9/23/1987
American theatre and film choreographer
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