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

  • 1180 –
    First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
  • 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.
  • 1683 –
    William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
  • 1757 –
    Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1887 –
    The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation’s first national park, Banff National Park.
  • 1914 –
    Mexican Revolution: Pancho 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.
  • 1926 –
    The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1958 –
    The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
  • 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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