About June 23

June 23, 2024 is the 175th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 220 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 23

  • 1180 –
    First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
  • 1305 –
    A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
  • 1661 –
    Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
  • 1683 –
    William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
  • 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.
  • 1794 –
    Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
  • 1860 –
    The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
  • 1894 –
    The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1958 –
    The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
  • 1959 –
    A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
  • 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.
  • 1967 –
    Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
  • 1985 –
    A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.

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