23rd
June, on this day
1305 Flemish-French
peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
1314 Start of the Battle
of Bannockburn south of Stirling, Edward II of England & Robert
I of Scotland met in battle. Scotland won and Edward fled the field
and Scotland.
1532 Henry VIII and François I sign 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 Catharina
of Portugal.
1683 William
Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians
in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1713 French residents of Acadia
given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova
Scotia Canada.
1757 British troops, commanded by Robert Clive, win the Battle
of Plassey in Bengal - laying the foundations of the British Empire
in India
1758 Battle
of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in
Germany.
1760 Battle
of Landshut, Silesia
1775 1st regatta held on Thames, England
1784 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
1794 Empress of Russia Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle
in Kiev.
1810 John
Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon)
1812 War
of 1812: Great Britain had revoked the restrictions on American
commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
1848 Bloody
insurrection of workers in Paris
1848 Adolphe
Sax patents the saxophone
1860 US Secret Service created
1865 At Fort Towson, Gen
Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable army
1868 The world's first practical typewriter is patented by Christopher
Sholes in Milwaukee, USA with keys laid out in alphabetical order
1888 Frederick
Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.
1894 International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris,
at the initiative of Baron Pierre
de Coubertin.
1919 Defeat of German forces at Cesis in northern Latvia during Estonian
Liberation War, now celebrated annually as Estonian Victory Day.
1925 Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre,
Wyoming)
1931 Wiley
Post and Harold Catty took off for flight around world
1938 Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium
1939 Government of Eire declares membership of the IRA (Irish Republican
Army) to be illegal
1939 France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (the Hatay) to Turkey
1940 German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now
occupied France.
1941 Lithuanian Activist Front initiates Lithuanian
1941 independence from the Soviet Union; it lasted only briefly
as the Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.
1942 The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place
on a trainload of Jews from Paris.
1942 Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf
FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands in Wales.
1944 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
1944 Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen
1945 The Imperial Japanese armed forces ended organized resistance
to the U.S. armed forces in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of
the main island of Okinawa.
1947 Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley
Act overridden by congress
1949 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
1951 British diplomats Guy
Burgess and Donald
Maclean flee to the USSR before the British authorities have the
opportunity to arrest them for spying
1955 Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" released
1956 Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser
becomes President of Egypt after an election in which voting is compulsory
and he is the only candidate
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
1967 John
Entwistle of the rock group Who weds Alison Wise
1967 LBJ and 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 Joe Frazier beats Jerry Quarry for the heavyweight boxing title
1970 Rocker Chubby
Checker arrest for marijuana pocession
1972 Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
1972 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies
to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
1972 Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1972 President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college
sports
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.
1976 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m)
opens
1979 The rock group, the Knack
releases "My Sharona"
1981 Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
1981 NYC mayor Koch
turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
1985 An
Air India jumbo jet explodes (terrorist bomb) off the coast of Ireland
killing all 329 on board
1986 Tip
O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
1986 Brighton bomber Patrick
Magee, found guilty of planting the bomb at the Grand Hotel, Brighton
during the Conservative Party Conference in 1983, is jailed for a
minimum of 35 years
1988 James
Hansen testifies to U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources that it was 99% probable that global warming had begun.
1989 The movie "Batman"
premiers
1990 Moldavia declares
independence.
1990 A rally to save Alien
Nation from cancellation held at Stat of Liberty
1991
Tony Randall and Jack
Klugman star in Bdwy performance of Odd
Couple
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales apologises for taking her two sons,
Princes William and Harry, to see the 15 certificated film The Devil's
Own about an IRA assassin
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Birthdates which
occurred on 23rd June :
1763 Jos‚phine
Martinique, empress of France
1846 George Sax inventor (the saxophone)
1848 Antoine Joseph Sax inventor (the saxophone)
1875 Carl Milles Uppsala Sweden, fountain sculptor (Wedding of Rivers)
1876 Irvin S Cobb Ky, writer/humorist (Old Judge Priest)
1887 John Finley Williamson Canton Ohio, conductor (Westminster Choir)
1894 Alfred Kinsey entomologist/sexologist (Kinsey Report)
1894 Duke of Windsor [King Edward VIII of England] (briefly in 1936)
19-- Chuck Billy rocker (Testament-Souls of Black)
19-- Jim Metzler Newburgh NY, actor (Best Times, North & South)
19-- Joseph Roman South Phila, actor (Sgt Brill-Quincy ME)
19-- Lela Ivey actress (Edge of Night)
19-- Lizzy Borden rocker (Red Rum, Norturios)
1902 Dr Howard T Engstrom Boston, a designer of Univac computer
1904 Dr Carleton Coon prof of anthropology (What in the World)
1910 Jean Anouilh France, dramatist (Thieves' Carnival)
1911 David Ogilvy advertising whiz (Ogilvy & Mathers)
1912 Alan Turing mathematician pioneer in computer theory (Turing
Machine)
1913 William P Rogers US secretary of state (1969-73)
1916 Irene Worth Nebraska, actress (Deathtrap, Nicolas & Alexandra)
1922 Francis Thorne Bay Shore NY, composer (Burlesque Overture)
1927 Bob Fosse Chicago Ill, choreographer/director (Cabaret, Damn
Yankees)
1929 Dave King Twickenham England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall)
1929 Henri Pousseur Malm‚dy Belgium, composer (Homo Habitis)
1929 June Carter Cash Maces Spring Va, country singer (Johnny Cash
Show)
1930 Donn F Eisele Columbus Ohio, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1933 Bert Convy game show host (Win, Lose or Draw)
1935 Gy”rgy K rp ti Hungary, water polo (Olympic-gold-1952,
56, 64)
1940 Adam Faith England, singer (Poor Me, What Do You Want?)
1940 Diana Trask Australia, singer (Sing Along With Mitch)
1940 Wilma Rudolph US, 100m/200m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1960)
1943 James Levine musical conductor (Tosca)
1946 Russ Thacker Wash DC, producer (Golden Seal)
1946 Ted Shackelford Okla City Okla, actor (Dallas, Knots Landing)
1950 Sally Geeson Sussex England, actress (Bless This House)
1953 Filbert Bayi Tanzania, 3,000m runner (Olympic-silver-1980)
1962 Paul LaGreca Bronx NY, actor
1964 Joey Allen Ft Wayne Indiana, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1964 Trent Bushey Haverhill Mass, actor (David Rampal-All My Children)
1967 Laurie Wood Orange Calif, playmate (March, 1989)
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Deaths which occurred on June 23rd:
1969 Stanley Andrews actor (Old Ranger-Death Valley Days), dies at
78
1972 Elton Britt country singer (Sat Night Jamboree), dies at 54
1973 Fay Holden actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77
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