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.
  • 1180 –
    First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
  • 1314 –
    First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
  • 1661 –
    Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
  • 1713 –
    The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • 1760 –
    Seven Years’ War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.
  • 1810 –
    John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
  • 1894 –
    The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
  • 1926 –
    The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
  • 1938 –
    The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
  • 1940 –
    World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1968 –
    74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
  • 1969 –
    Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
  • 1972 –
    Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.

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