WillDekkard
06-23-2010, 05:01 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 23rd
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* 79 Titus Caesar Vespasianus succeeds his father Vespasianus as tenth Roman Emperor.
* 1180 First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
* 1305 The Flemish-French peace treaty is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
* 1314 First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn, south of Stirling, begins.
* 1532 Henry VIII and Franηois I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
* 1565 Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
* 1611 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.
* 1661 Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
* 1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
* 1713 The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
* 1757 Battle of Plassey 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
* 1758 Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
* 1760 Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut Austria defeats Prussia.
* 1780 American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township.
* 1794 Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
* 1810 John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
* 1812 War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
* 1812 Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon I of France invades Russia.
* 1860 The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
* 1865 American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
* 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for Type-Writer.
* 1887 The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
* 1894 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
* 1914 Mexican Revolution: Francisco Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
* 1917 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.
* 1919 Estonian Liberation War: The decisive defeat of German Freikorps (Baltische Landeswehr) forces in the Battle of Cesis (Vυnnu lahing). This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
* 1926 The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
* 1931 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
* 1938 The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
* 1940 World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
* 1941 The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
* 1942 World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train load of Jews from Paris.
* 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 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.
* 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when organised resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
* 1946 The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
* 1947 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.
* 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser is 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.
* 1961 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.
* 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 football 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 justice 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.
* 1972 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
* 1973 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.
* 1985 A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
* 1988 James E. Hansen testifies to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it is 99% probable that global warming had begun.
* 1989 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a law passed by the U.S. Congress banning all sexually oriented phone message services is unconstitutional.
* 1991 Moldova declares independence.
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- June 23rd
c/p from Wikipedia
* 79 Titus Caesar Vespasianus succeeds his father Vespasianus as tenth Roman Emperor.
* 1180 First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
* 1305 The Flemish-French peace treaty is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
* 1314 First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn, south of Stirling, begins.
* 1532 Henry VIII and Franηois I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
* 1565 Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
* 1611 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.
* 1661 Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
* 1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
* 1713 The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
* 1757 Battle of Plassey 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
* 1758 Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
* 1760 Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut Austria defeats Prussia.
* 1780 American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township.
* 1794 Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
* 1810 John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
* 1812 War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
* 1812 Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon I of France invades Russia.
* 1860 The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
* 1865 American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
* 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for Type-Writer.
* 1887 The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
* 1894 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
* 1914 Mexican Revolution: Francisco Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
* 1917 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.
* 1919 Estonian Liberation War: The decisive defeat of German Freikorps (Baltische Landeswehr) forces in the Battle of Cesis (Vυnnu lahing). This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
* 1926 The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
* 1931 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
* 1938 The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
* 1940 World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
* 1941 The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
* 1942 World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train load of Jews from Paris.
* 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 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.
* 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when organised resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
* 1946 The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
* 1947 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.
* 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser is 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.
* 1961 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.
* 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 football 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 justice 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.
* 1972 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
* 1973 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.
* 1985 A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
* 1988 James E. Hansen testifies to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it is 99% probable that global warming had begun.
* 1989 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a law passed by the U.S. Congress banning all sexually oriented phone message services is unconstitutional.
* 1991 Moldova declares independence.
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