About June 23
June 23, 2025 is the 174th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 239 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 23
- 79 –Titus succeeds his father Vespasian as the tenth Roman Emperor.
- 1565 –Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
- 1661 –Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
- 1760 –Seven Years’ War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.
- 1794 –Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
- 1812 –War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
- 1865 –American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
- 1913 –Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
- 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 will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
- 1942 –World War II: Germany’s latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
- 1942 –World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
- 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 –The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.
- 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 resumes a scientific career.
- 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.
- 1968 –74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
- 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.
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