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
- 79 –Titus succeeds his father Vespasian as the tenth Roman Emperor.
- 1305 –A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1914 –Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
- 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.
- 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: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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