UN
Days
United
Nations Public Service Day
International
Widows' Day Events
of the day
79 – Titus succeeds his father
Vespasian as the tenth Roman Emperor.
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.
1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The
Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
1532 – Henry VIII and François I sign a secret
treaty against Emperor Charles V.
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.
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.
1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given
one year to declare allegiance to Britain or
leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
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.
1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield
fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey
(including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield,
now of Millburn Township).
1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants
Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur
Company.
1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the
restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating
one of the chief reasons for going to war.
1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in
Paris, France.
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.
1894 – The International Olympic Committee is
founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative
of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1913 – Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat
the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1959 – A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim
(Norway) kills 34 people.
1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration
declares Enovid to be the first officially approved
combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
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.
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.
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 – 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.
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.
1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England which
kills a six year old boy is passed off as an
accident; it later emerges as the first of 26
deaths by fire caused over the next seven years
by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin is beaten
to death in Highland Park, Michigan, by two
auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese
and who were angry about the success of Japanese
auto companies.
1985 – A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight
182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast
of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Æthelthryth
Marie of Oignies
June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Father's Day (Nicaragua, Poland, Uganda)
Grand Duke's Official Birthday (Luxembourg)
National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism
(Canada)
St John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer
celebrations (although this is not the real
summer solstice, see June 20) (Roman Catholic
Church, Northern Europe):
First day of Golowan Festival (Cornwall)
First night of Ivan Kupala Day
Jaaniõhtu (Estonia)
Last day of Drăgaica fair (Buzău, Romania)
Līgo (Latvia)
United Nations Public Service Day (International)
Victory Day (Estonia)
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