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.
- 1565 –Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
- 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.
- 1758 –Seven Years’ War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
- 1794 –Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
- 1860 –The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
- 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.
- 1919 –Estonian War of Independence: the decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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