Historical Events on June 23

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• 930 World's oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament is established, the Alþingi (anglicised as Althing or Althingi)
• 1295 Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome
• 1298 Adolf of Nassau deposed as King of Germany

• 1305 French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge

• 1565 Turgut Reis [Dragut], commander of the Ottoman Navy, dies during the Siege of Malta
• 1585 Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops
• 1645 Cretan War begins with attack by Ottoman navy on Venetian-held coast of Crete (war lasts till 1669)
• 1658 Dutch troops occupy last Portuguese Fort at Jafnapatnam in Ceylon

• 1713 The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada
• 1724 Russia and 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 river Thames, England
• 1780 American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township
• 1784 Edward Warren makes the 1st US balloon flight, aged just 13 years old

• 1821 Dutch troops conquer Palembang

• 1848 Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris
• 1854 Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use
• 1860 US Congress establishes Government Printing Office
• 1863 Tullahoma campaign, Tennessee
• 1865 At Fort Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confederate army

• 1892 Chicago's 'The Inter Ocean' launches 1st US newspaper color supplement
• 1894 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin

• 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

• 1908 Shah Mohammed Ali leads a successful counter-revolution in Persia, aided by the Russian legation and a Cossack brigade
• 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
• 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
• 1917 Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000

• 1919 Nitti government forms in Italy
• 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 The College Board administers the first SAT exam in USA

• 1928 Commencement of West Indies cricket's first ever Test match; England go on to win by an innings and 58 runs at Lord's

• 1932 St Louis Browns beat NY Yankees, 14-10; Lou Gehrig's 1,103rd consecutive game in a Yankees uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland Indians)
• 1933 Don McNeill's Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35½ year run on NBC

• 1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
• 1938 Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium

• 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, Lithuania
• 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

• 1944 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153

• 1944 Soviet offensive in central front sector
• 1945 Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)
• 1946 In South Africa, a group of white men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters
• 1947 Compton and Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v South Africa

• 1949 Dutch Constellation aircraft plunges into the sea near Bari, 33 die
• 1949 First twelve women graduate from Harvard Medical School
• 1950 Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4
• 1950 New York Yankees (6) & Detroit Tigers (5) hit record 11 HRs at Briggs Stadium; Tigers win, 10-9
• 1950 Swiss parliament refuses voting rights for women
• 1951 Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
• 1951 Treacherous British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to USSR
• 1952 US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea
• 1954 122°F (50°C), Overton, Nevada (state record until June 29, 1994)

• 1956 "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8

• 1958 Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers
• 1958 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
• 1958 US Federal judge rules race separation must end in 2½ years in Little Rock, Arkansas
• 1959 A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people

• 1960 "The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom" last airs on ABC-TV

• 1960 Japan signs security treaty with the US

• 1961 Philadelphia Phillies overcome 9 run deficit; trailing 11-2 after 7 innings, score 4 in 8th and 6 in 9th to beat Pirates, 12-11 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
• 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 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 32,830 m
• 1962 Suvanna Phuma forms government in Laos
• 1963 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Maple Bluff CC: Mickey Wright defends title by 9 shots from Kathy Whitworth for her 10th major championship
• 1963 NY Mets Jimmy Piersall hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards
• 1963 The Detroit March to Freedom occurs with 125,000 people participating, the largest civil rights demonstration in America up to that point

• 1964 General Maxwell Taylor appointed US ambassador in South Vietnam
• 1967 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA)

• 1967 US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd from Connecticut (D). 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 24 Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district, Cape Province, appear in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on charges under the Sabotage Act; alleged they had conspired or incited others to kill White people or police
• 1969 French government of Couve de Murville resigns

• 1969 Warren E. Burger sworn in as US Supreme Court Chief Justice
• 1970 "Red Skelton Show" last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV

• 1971 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Reds, and hits 2 HR's and 3 RBI in 4-0 win at Cincinnati
• 1971 WTVP TV channel 47 in Peoria, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1972 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound
• 1972 Bernice Gera becomes first female umpire in US pro baseball, Geneva Senators and Auburn Twins in Geneva, New York
• 1972 Hurricane Agnes becomes America's costliest natural disaster, affecting 15 states, with 119 deaths and $3 billion in damage

• 1972 US President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports

• 1973 World Court condemns French nuclear tests in the Pacific
• 1974 First extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space

• 1976 CN Tower, world's tallest free-standing structure (555 m/1,815.3 ft), built by Canadian National Railway, opens in downtown Toronto, Ontario (surpassed in 2007)
• 1976 The U.S. vetoes Angola’s application for membership of the United Nations Security
• 1977 Violence erupts in Soweto, South Africa, again and the police make at least 146 arrests
• 1979 "My Sharona" single released by The Knack
• 1979 Charlie Daniels Band releases "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
• 1979 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Lord's, London: West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win second straight final; Player the Match: Vivian Richards (WI) 138 no (157)
• 1979 Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" becomes No. 1 album in the US featuring "Take the Long Way Home"

• 1980 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation

• 1980 West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium)
• 1981 Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
• 1981 French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists
• 1981 Longest game in Professional Baseball: Pawtucket Red Sox finally beat Rochester Red Wings 3-2 in 33 innings (game began 18th April)
• 1981 NYC Mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
• 1982 "Cleavage" opens and 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 Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight
• 1982 US pass the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200)

• 1983 Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat
• 1983 US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions
• 1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die

• 1986 Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84)

• 1988 Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft

• 1990 A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Statue of Liberty

• 1990 Moldavia declares independence

• 1991 "Odd Couple" opens & closes at Belasco Theater NYC
• 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

• 1993 Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband's John Wayne Bobbitt's penis

• 1993 United Nations authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti
• 1994 Moshood Abiola is accused of treason and arrested after declaring himself president of Nigeria
• 1994 Opération Turquoise: 2,500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians under the mandate of the United Nations
• 1994 Replay shows Oakland Athletics's Bobby Witt beat Kansas City's Greg Gagne to 1st in 6th but umpire Gary Cedarstrom calls him safe, ruining Witt's perfect game
• 1994 South Africa reclaims its seat in United Nations

• 1996 Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan
• 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

• 2008 Félix Hernández of the Seattle Mariners hits a grand slam home run against New York Mets, 1st pitcher since Steve Dunning in 1971

• 2012 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
• 2012 A coach crashes in Croatia killing 8 Czech tourists and injuring 44
• 2012 Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
• 2013 18 Romanians are killed and 32 are injured after a bus crash in Montenegro

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