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June 23
is the 174th day of the year (175th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 191 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 1913
?
Second Balkan War
: The
Greeks
defeat the
Bulgarians
in the
Battle of Doiran
.
- 1914
?
Mexican Revolution
:
Pancho Villa
takes
Zacatecas
from
Victoriano Huerta
- 1915
? First wholesale slaughter of Armenian men in Harput (Kharpert),
Turkey
.
- 1919
?
Estonian War of Independence
: Decisive defeat of the "Baltische Landswehr" in the
Battle of Cesis
.
- 1924
? German
serial killer
Fritz Haarmann
is captured.
- 1925
?
Mount Logan
,
Canada
's highest peak at 5959 metres above sea level, in the
Yukon
, is climbed for the first time, by a team of 6 climbers, led by
Albert MacCarthy
.
- 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.
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- 1938
? The
Civil Aeronautics Act
is signed into law, forming the
Civil Aeronautics Authority
in the
United States
.
- 1938
?
Marineland
opens near
St. Augustine, Florida
.
- 1940
?
World War II
:
German
leader
Adolf Hitler
surveys newly defeated
Paris
in now-occupied
France
.
- 1941
?
Lithuanian Activist Front
declares independence (
June independence
) of Lithuania from Soviet Union; it was only brief however as Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.
- 1942
?
Holocaust
: The first selections for the gas chamber at
Auschwitz
take place, on a
train
full of
Jews
from
Paris
.
- 1943
?
World War II
: British destroyers HMS
Eclipse
and HMS
Laforey
sink the Italian
submarine
Asciangihi
in the
Mediterranean Sea
, after she
torpedoes
the cruiser HMS
Newfoundland
.
- 1944
?
Thomas Mann
becomes a US
citizen
.
- 1946
? An
earthquake
strikes
Vancouver Island
.
- 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
.
- 1956
?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
elected president of Egypt.
- 1958
? The
Dutch Reformed Church
accepts women ministers.
- 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
? Japan signs security treaty with the U.S.
- 1961
? Having been signed on
December 1
,
1959
, the
Antarctic Treaty
goes into effect.
- 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
.
- 1968
? 74 are killed and 150 injured in a
soccer
stampede towards a closed exit in a
Buenos Aires
stadium.
- 1969
?
Warren E. Burger
is sworn in as chief justice of the
United States Supreme Court
by retiring chief
Earl Warren
.
- 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.
- 1974
? In
Switzerland
, the
Canton of Jura
separates from the
Canton of Bern
.
- 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
.
- 1983
?
Pope John Paul II
meets imprisoned
Solidarity
leader
Lech Walesa
in
Poland
.
- 1985
? A
Boeing 747
carrying
Air India Flight 182
blew up at 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the
Atlantic Ocean
, South of
Ireland
, killing all 329 aboard.
- 1989
? The movie
Batman
is released in the
United States
.
- 1990
?
Moldova
declares independence.
- 1992
?
Mafia
boss
John Gotti
is sentenced to life in
prison
after being found guilty of
conspiracy
to commit
murder
and
racketeering
on
April 2
.
- 1992
?
Yitzhak Rabin
wins the
Israeli
parliamentary elections.
- 2000
? A ferry sinks on the
Yangtze
river, near Luzhou, in
China
's
Sichuan
province, killing 131 people.
- 47 BC
? Ptolemy
Caesarion
of
Egypt
(d.
30 BC
)
- 1373
? Queen
Joan II of Naples
(d.
1435
)
- 1435
?
Francis II, Duke of Brittany
(d.
1488
)
- 1456
?
Margaret of Denmark
, Queen Consort of
Scotland
(d.
1486
)
- 1534
?
Oda Nobunaga
, Japanese warlord (d.
1582
)
- 1612
?
Andre Tacquet
,
Flemish
mathematician
(d.
1660
)
- 1668
?
Giambattista Vico
, Italian
philosopher
and
historian
(d.
1744
)
- 1703
?
Marie Leszczynska
, Queen Consort of
France
(d.
1768
)
- 1711
?
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
, Italian instrument maker (d.
1786
)
- 1763
?
Josephine de Beauharnais
, Empress of
France
(d.
1814
)
- 1772
?
Cristobal Mendoza
, 1st
President
of
Venezuela
(d.
1829
)
- 1800
?
Karol Marcinkowski
, Polish physician and social activist (d.
1846
)
- 1815
?
Robert Milligan McLane
, American politician and diplomat (d.
1898
)
- 1824
?
Carl Reinecke
, German musician and composer (d.
1910
)
- 1863
?
Sandor Brody
, Hungarian
author
and
journalist
(d.
1924
)
- 1875
?
Carl Milles
, Swedish
sculptor
(d.
1955
)
- 1875
?
Norman Pritchard
, Indian athlete (d.
1929
)
- 1884
?
Cyclone Taylor
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (d.
1979
)
- 1887
?
Ernst Rowohlt
, German publisher (d.
1960
)
- 1888
?
Bronson M. Cutting
, American politician (d.
1935
)
- 1888
?
Lee Moran
, American actor (d.
1961
)
- 1889
?
Anna Akhmatova
, Russian poet (d.
1966
)
- 1894
? King
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
(d.
1972
)
- 1894
?
Alfred Kinsey
, American entomologist and
sexologist
(d.
1956
)
- 1897
?
Alexandru Giugaru
, Romanian actor (d.
1986
)
- 1906
? King
Tribhuvan
of
Nepal
(d.
1955
)
- 1907
?
James Meade
, English
economist
(d.
1995
)
- 1909
?
Georges Rouquier
, French
actor
,
movie director
and
screenwriter
(d.
1989
)
- 1910
?
Milt Hinton
, American
jazz
musician (d.
1990
)
- 1910
?
Jean Anouilh
, French dramatist (d.
1987
)
- 1910
?
Gordon B. Hinckley
, American
Mormon
leader (d.
2008
)
- 1912
?
Alan Turing
, British
mathematician
(d.
1954
)
- 1913
?
William P. Rogers
, American politician (d.
2001
)
- 1916
?
Ernst Willimowski
, Polish
footballer
(d.
1987
)
- 1919
?
Hermann Gmeiner
, founder of
SOS Children's Villages
(d.
1986
)
- 1919
?
Mohamed Boudiaf
,
Algerian
political leader (d.
1992
)
- 1923
?
Johnny Barnes
,
Bermudian
entertainer (d.
2016
)
- 1923
?
Giuseppina Tuissi
, Italian Resistance activist (d.
1945
)
- 1923
?
Walter Wolfgang
, German-British socialist and peace activist (d.
2019
)
- 1925
?
John Shepherd-Barron
, Scottish
inventor
(d.
2010
)
- 1925
?
Art Modell
, American
businessman
(d.
2012
)
- 1925
?
Oliver Smithies
, British-American
geneticist
(d.
2017
)
- 1926
?
Arnaldo Pomodoro
, Italian
sculptor
- 1927
?
Bob Fosse
, American
choreographer
(d.
1987
)
- 1928
?
Klaus von Dohnanyi
, former
Mayor of Hamburg
- 1929
?
June Carter Cash
, American singer (d.
2003
)
- 1930
?
Donn F. Eisele
, American
colonel
,
pilot
and
astronaut
(d.
1987
)
- 1931
?
Ola Ullsten
, former
Prime Minister
of
Sweden
(d.
2018
)
- 1931
?
Gunnar Uusi
,
Estonian
chess
player (d.
1981
)
- 1935
?
Maurice Ferre
, 32nd
Mayor
of
Miami
,
Florida
- 1936
?
Richard Bach
, American writer and pilot
- 1936
?
Jan Hoet
, Belgian art historian (d.
2014
)
- 1936
?
Costas Simitis
, former
Prime Minister
of
Greece
- 1937
?
Martti Ahtisaari
, former
President
of
Finland
- 1940
?
Stuart Sutcliffe
, British musician (d.
1962
)
- 1940
?
Wilma Rudolph
, American runner (d.
1994
)
- 1940
?
Adam Faith
, English singer and actor (d.
2003
)
- 1940
?
Derry Irvine
, Scottish
lawyer
,
judge
and
politician
- 1940
?
Willie Wallace
, Scottish
footballer
- 1942
?
Martin Rees
, English
cosmologist
and astrophysicist
- 1943
?
Albert Pintat
, former
Prime Minister of Andorra
- 1943
?
James Levine
, American conductor
- 1943
?
Vint Cerf
, American
computer scientist
and
author
- 1945
?
John Garang
,
South Sudanese
politician (d.
2005
)
- 1948
?
Clarence Thomas
, American jurist
- 1948
?
Nabarun Bhattacharya
, Indian author (d.
2015
)
- 1950
?
Orani Joao Tempesta
,
Brazilian
cardinal
- 1951
?
Michele Mouton
, French rally driver
- 1951
?
Sergei Skripal
, Russian double-agent
- 1953
?
Armen Sarkissian
, former
Prime Minister
and current
President of Armenia
- 1955
?
Maggie Philbin
, English
television
and
radio
presenter
- 1955
?
Jean Tigana
, French
footballer
- 1956
?
Randy Jackson
, American music producer
- 1957
?
Frances McDormand
, American actress
- 1957
?
Jochen Schweizer
, German
entrepreneur
- 1960
?
Tatsuya Uemura
, Japanese musician and programmer
- 1960
?
Donald Harrison
, American saxophonist, composer and producer
- 1960
?
Fadil Vokrri
, Kosovar footballer (d.
2018
)
- 1961
?
Andrea Borella
, Italian fencer
- 1961
?
John Nicolson
, Scottish politician
- 1963
?
Colin Montgomery
, Scottish
golfer
- 1964
?
Joss Whedon
,
American
television director
and
movie director
- 1964
?
Kenji Honnami
, Japanese
footballer
- 1965
?
Paul Arthurs
, British
guitarist
(
Oasis
)
- 1969
?
Fernanda Ribeiro
, Portuguese athlete
- 1970
?
Yann Tiersen
, French musician and
songwriter
- 1972
?
Zinedine Zidane
, French
footballer
- 1972
?
Go Oiwa
, Japanese
footballer
- 1972
?
Selma Blair
, American actress
- 1973
?
Marie N
, Latvian singer
- 1973
?
Eisuke Nakanishi
, Japanese
footballer
- 1975
?
KT Tunstall
, Scottish singer
- 1975
?
Shuhei Terada
, Japanese
footballer
- 1976
?
Patrick Vieira
, French
footballer
- 1976
?
Emmanuelle Vaugier
, Canadian actress, singer, songwriter and model
- 1977
?
Hayden Foxe
, Australian
footballer
- 1977
?
Miguel Angel Angulo
, Spanish
footballer
- 1977
?
Jason Mraz
, American singer
- 1978
?
Memphis Bleek
, American
rapper
- 1978
?
Frederic Leclercq
, French
singer-songwriter
and
musician
- 1980
?
Francesca Schiavone
, Italian
tennis
player
- 1980
?
Melissa Rauch
, American actress
- 1981
?
Antony Costa
, British singer (
Blue
)
- 1982
?
Derek Boogaard
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (d.
2011
)
- 1983
?
Jose Manuel Rojas
,
Chilean
footballer
- 1984
?
Takeshi Matsuda
, Japanese swimmer
- 1984
?
Duffy
, Welsh singer
- 1987
?
Alessia Filippi
, Italian swimmer
- 1988
?
Chellsie Memmel
, American
gymnast
- 1989
?
Jordan Nolan
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1989
?
Ayana Taketatsu
, Japanese
voice actress
- 1989
?
Lauren Bennett
, British dancer,
singer
and
model
- 1989
?
Billie Kay
, American
professional wrestler
- 1991
?
Katie Armiger
, American singer
- 1992
?
Luiza Galiulina
, Uzbek gymnast
- 1995
?
Hao Yun
, Chinese swimmer
- 1995
?
Danna Paola
, Mexican singer and actress
- 2004
?
Mana Ashida
, Japanese actress and singer
- 79
?
Vespasian
, Roman Emperor (b.
9
)
- 679
?
Aethelthryth
,
Queen
of
Northumbria
- 1018
?
Henry I, Margrave of Austria
- 1222
?
Constance of Aragon
, Holy Roman Empress (b.
1179
)
- 1516
?
Ferdinand II of Aragon
(b.
1452
)
- 1555
?
Pedro Mascarenhas
, Portuguese explorer (b.
1470
)
- 1565
?
Dragut
, Ottoman general (b.
1485
)
- 1582
?
Shimizu Muneharu
, Japanese military leader (b.
1537
)
- 1615
?
Mashita Nagamori
, Japanese warlord (b.
1545
)
- 1677
?
William Louis, Duke of Wurttemberg
(b.
1647
)
- 1686
?
William Coventry
, English
statesman
(b.
1628
)
- 1691
?
Suleiman II
, Ottoman Sultan (b.
1642
)
- 1707
?
John Mill
, English
theologian
(b.
1645
)
- 1779
?
Mikael Sehul
,
Ethiopian
warlord (b.
1691
)
- 1806
?
Mathurin Jacques Brisson
, French
zoologist
and
philosopher
(b.
1723
)
- 1832
?
James Hall
, Scottish geologist (b.
1761
)
- 1836
?
James Mill
, Scottish
philosopher
and historian (b.
1773
)
- 1856
?
Ivan Kireevsky
, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b.
1806
)
- 1881
?
Matthias Jakob Scheiden
, German
botanist
(b.
1804
)
- 1891
?
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
, German
physicist
(b.
1804
)
- 1893
?
William Fox
, four-times
Prime Minister of New Zealand
(b.
1812
)
- 1893
?
Theophilus Shepstone
, British-South African politician (b.
1817
)
- 1914
?
Bhaktivinoda Thakur
, Indian
philosopher
and spiritual reformist (b.
1838
)
- 1926
?
Jon Magnusson
,
Prime Minister
of
Iceland
(b.
1859
)
- 1945
?
Giuseppina Tuissi
, Italian Resistance activist (b.
1923
)
- 1959
?
Boris Vian
, French
polymath
(b.
1920
)
- 1970
?
Roscoe Turner
, American aviator (b.
1895
)
- 1980
?
Varahagiri Venkata Giri
, 4th
President of India
(b.
1894
)
- 1980
?
Sanjay Gandhi
, son of
Indira Gandhi
(b.
1946
)
- 1981
?
Zarah Leander
, Swedish actress and singer (b.
1907
)
- 1986
?
Moses I. Finley
, British historian (b.
1912
)
- 1991
?
Lea Padovani
, Italian
movie
actress
(b.
1920
)
- 1995
?
Anatoly Tarasov
, Russian
ice hockey
coach
(b.
1918
)
- 1995
?
Jonas Salk
, American
biologist
and
physician
(b.
1914
)
- 1996
?
Andreas Papandreou
, former
Prime Minister
of
Greece
(b.
1919
)
- 1997
?
Betty Shabazz
, American activist (b.
1934
)
- 1998
?
Maureen O'Sullivan
, Irish actress (b.
1911
)
- 1999
?
Buster Merryfield
, English actor (b.
1920
)
- 2000
?
Peter Dubovsky
,
Slovakian
footballer
(b.
1972
)
- 2001
?
Yvonne Dionne
, one of the
Dionne Quintuplets
(b.
1934
)
- 2001
?
Corinne Calvet
, French actress (b.
1925
)
- 2006
?
Aaron Spelling
, American TV producer (b.
1923
)
- 2006
?
Harriet
, Galapagos
Tortoise
(b.
1830
)
- 2008
?
Arthur Chung
, former
President
of
Guyana
(b.
1918
)
- 2009
?
Hanne Hiob
, German actress (b.
1923
)
- 2009
?
Ed McMahon
, American
television personality
(b.
1923
)
- 2010
?
Mohammed Mzali
,
Prime Minister
of
Tunisia
(b.
1925
)
- 2011
?
Gene Colan
, American comic book artist (b.
1926
)
- 2011
?
Dennis Marshall
,
Costa Rican
footballer
(b.
1985
)
- 2011
?
Peter Falk
, American actor (b.
1927
)
- 2012
?
Alan McDonald
, Northern Irish
footballer
(b.
1963
)
- 2012
?
Brigitte Engerer
, French
pianist
(b.
1952
)
- 2013
?
Bobby Bland
, American
singer-songwriter
(b.
1930
)
- 2013
?
Richard Matheson
, American
author
(b.
1926
)
- 2014
?
Steve Viksten
, American
television
writer
and
voice actor
(b.
1960
)
- 2015
?
Chris Woodhead
, English educationist (b.
1946
)
- 2015
?
Helmuth Lohner
, Austrian actor and theatre director (b.
1933
)
- 2015
?
Dick Van Patten
, American actor (b.
1928
)
- 2015
?
Harvey Pollack
, American sport statistician (b.
1922
)
- 2015
?
The Lau
, Dutch
singer
and
guitarist
(b.
1952
)
- 2015
?
Magali Noel
, French actress and singer (b.
1931
)
- 2016
?
James Green
, American historian (b.
1944
)
- 2016
?
Stanley Mandelstam
, American theoretical
physicist
(b.
1928
)
- 2016
?
Ralph Stanley
, American musician (b.
1927
)
- 2017
?
Saman Kelegama
, Sri Lankan economist (b.
1959
)
- 2017
?
Tonny van der Linden
, Dutch
footballer
(b.
1932
)
- 2017
?
Mr. Pogo
, Japanese
professional wrestler
(b.
1951
)
- 2017
?
Gabe Pressman
, American journalist (b.
1924
)
- 2017
?
Betty Metcalf
, American politician (b.
1921
)
- 2018
?
Alberto Fouilloux
, Chilean
footballer
(b.
1940
)
- 2018
?
Donald Hall
, American
poet
(b.
1928
)
- 2018
?
Kim Jong-pil
,
Prime minister
of
South Korea
(b.
1926
)
- 2018
?
Violeta Rivas
, Argentine singer and actress (b.
1937
)
- 2019
?
Peter Ball
, English
bishop
and convicted sex offender (b.
1932
)
- 2019
?
Dave Bartholomew
, American musician, bandleader and songwriter (b.
1918
)
- 2019
?
Andrey Kharitonov
, Russian actor (b.
1959
)
- 2019
?
Fernando Roldan
, Chilean
footballer
(b.
1920
)
- 2019
?
George Rosenkranz
, Hungarian-Mexican chemist (b.
1916
)
- 2019
?
Abdul Sattar
, Pakistani political scientist and diplomat (b.
1931
)