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Events on the 23rd of June in history

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23 Jun 1180 First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
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23 Jun 1280 The Battle of Moclín takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada. The battle resulted in a Granadian victory.
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23 Jun 1295 Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome
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23 Jun 1298 Duke Albrecht von Habsburg chosen Roman Catholic German King
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23 Jun 1305 French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge
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23 Jun 1305 A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
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23 Jun 1314 First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
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23 Jun 1532 Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
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23 Jun 1565 Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
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23 Jun 1585 Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops
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23 Jun 1611 Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1658 Dutch troops occupy last Portugese Fort Jafnapatnam Ceylon
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23 Jun 1661 Marriage contract for Charles II of England and Catharina of Portugal
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23 Jun 1661 Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
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23 Jun 1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
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23 Jun 1683 William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
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23 Jun 1713 The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
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23 Jun 1724 Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
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23 Jun 1757 Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
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23 Jun 1757 Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
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23 Jun 1758 Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
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23 Jun 1760 Battle of Landshut Silesia: Austria beats Prussia
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23 Jun 1760 Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.
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23 Jun 1760 Battle of Landshut, Silesia
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23 Jun 1775 1st regatta held on Thames, England
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23 Jun 1776 Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to US Congress
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23 Jun 1780 American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
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23 Jun 1784 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
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23 Jun 1794 Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
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23 Jun 1810 John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
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23 Jun 1810 John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon)
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23 Jun 1812 War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
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23 Jun 1821 Dutch troops conquer Palembang
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23 Jun 1848 Antoine Joseph Sax patents Saxophone
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23 Jun 1848 Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
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23 Jun 1848 Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris
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23 Jun 1854 Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use
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23 Jun 1860 The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
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23 Jun 1860 US Secret Service created
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23 Jun 1863 Tullahoma campaign, Tennessee
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23 Jun 1865 At Ft Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable Confederate army
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23 Jun 1865 American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
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23 Jun 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
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23 Jun 1868 Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
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23 Jun 1887 The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
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23 Jun 1888 Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for President
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23 Jun 1894 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
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23 Jun 1903 M Wolf discovers asteroid #512 Taurinensis
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23 Jun 1909 Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
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23 Jun 1913 Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
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23 Jun 1914 Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
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23 Jun 1915 Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag)
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23 Jun 1915 Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0
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23 Jun 1917 31st US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beat Marion Vanderhoef (46 60 62)
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23 Jun 1917 Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000
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23 Jun 1917 Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out and retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1917 Molla Bjurstedt wins the US Lawn Tennis Assn title
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23 Jun 1918 Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0
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23 Jun 1919 Nitti government forms in Italy
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1922 57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St. George
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23 Jun 1924 8 month Twenste textile strike ends
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23 Jun 1924 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1022 Olympiada
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23 Jun 1925 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
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23 Jun 1925 Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
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23 Jun 1926 8th government of Briand van France forms
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23 Jun 1926 The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
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23 Jun 1927 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox
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23 Jun 1930 Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1931 Wiley Post & Harold Catty took off for flight around world
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23 Jun 1935 Anthony Eden offers Mussolini, Somalian harbor
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23 Jun 1938 New York City Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 cops to patrol subway
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23 Jun 1938 The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
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23 Jun 1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
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23 Jun 1938 Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium
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23 Jun 1939 Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to become wrestling champ
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23 Jun 1939 France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (the Hatay) to Turkey
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23 Jun 1940 Marcel Louette seeks opposition group "White Brigade" on Antwerp
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23 Jun 1940 RAF bombs Schiphol
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23 Jun 1940 World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
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23 Jun 1941 Germany occupies Telz Lithuana
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1942 World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1943 Dutch artsens protest against Nazis
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1944 Russian offensive in central front sector
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23 Jun 1944 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
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23 Jun 1944 Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen
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23 Jun 1945 77th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot wins in 2:30.2
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23 Jun 1945 Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)
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23 Jun 1946 The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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23 Jun 1946 The National Democratic Front wins a landslide victory in the municipal elections in French India.
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23 Jun 1947 Compton and Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt vs. South Africa
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1947 Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
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23 Jun 1949 Dutch Constellation plunge at Bari in sea, 33 die
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23 Jun 1949 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
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23 Jun 1950 Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women
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23 Jun 1950 Yanks & Tigers hit record 11 HRs, Tigers win 10-9
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23 Jun 1951 Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
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23 Jun 1951 British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR
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23 Jun 1952 US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea
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23 Jun 1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament
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23 Jun 1954 122
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23 Jun 1955 Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released
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23 Jun 1956 "Jimmy Durante Show, " last airs on NBC-TV
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23 Jun 1956 "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
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23 Jun 1957 S B Nicholson discovers asteroid #1647 Menelaus
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23 Jun 1958 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
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23 Jun 1958 The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1959 A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
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23 Jun 1960 "Pat Boone Show, " last airs on ABC-TV
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23 Jun 1960 Japan signs security treaty with the US
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23 Jun 1960 The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
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23 Jun 1961 Antarctic Treaty goes into effect
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23 Jun 1961 Cubs Ernie Banks ends his 717 consecutive-games-played streak
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1961 Phillies overcome 9-0, losing 11-2 they score 4 in 8th & 6 in 9th
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23 Jun 1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m
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23 Jun 1962 "Subways Are after Sleeping" closes at St. James NYC after 205 performances
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23 Jun 1962 Laos Suvanna Phuma forms government
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23 Jun 1962 Larry Doby, retires from Cleveland Indians to play in Japan
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23 Jun 1963 63rd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 293 at The Country Club, Massachusetts
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23 Jun 1963 New York Mets Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards
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23 Jun 1963 President Kennedy tours West-Europe
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23 Jun 1963 Julius Boros wins golf's US Open
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23 Jun 1964 Gen Maxwell Taylor appointed US ambassador in South Vietnam
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23 Jun 1967 LBJ and Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1967 Jim Ryun sets mile record of 3 min, 51.1 sec (Bakersfield, CA)
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23 Jun 1967 John Entwistle of the rock group Who weds Alison Wise
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23 Jun 1967 US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds
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23 Jun 1969 French government of Couve de Murville resigns
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23 Jun 1969 Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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23 Jun 1969 Software Industry IBM announced that effective January 1970 it would price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
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23 Jun 1969 Joe Frazier beats Jerry Quarry for the heavyweight boxing title
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23 Jun 1969 Warren E Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice
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23 Jun 1970 "Red Skelton Show, " last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV
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23 Jun 1970 Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
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23 Jun 1970 Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary
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23 Jun 1971 WTVP TV channel 47 in Peoria, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Jun 1971 Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Cincinatti Reds, 4-0
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23 Jun 1972 President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 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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23 Jun 1972 Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
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23 Jun 1972 Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
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23 Jun 1973 "Cyrano" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 49 performances
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23 Jun 1973 "Sugar" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 506 performances
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1973 Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
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23 Jun 1974 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space
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23 Jun 1974 20th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
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23 Jun 1974 Sandra Haynie wins the LPGA byh 2 strokes over JoAnne Carner
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23 Jun 1975 75th US Golf Open: Lou Graham shoots a 287 at Medinah Country Club - Illinois
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23 Jun 1975 Rocker Alice Cooper falls of stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs
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23 Jun 1976 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
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23 Jun 1977 13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-4
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23 Jun 1979 Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
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23 Jun 1979 Rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"
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23 Jun 1979 The rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"
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23 Jun 1980 "David Letterman Show, " debuts on NBC-TV daytime
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23 Jun 1980 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation
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23 Jun 1980 West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium)
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23 Jun 1981 "This Was Burlesque" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 28 performances
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23 Jun 1981 Dave Koza scores Marty Barrett with bases-loaded single in bottom of 33rd inning, Pawtucket beats Rochester 3-2
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23 Jun 1981 French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists
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23 Jun 1981 New York City mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
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23 Jun 1981 33-inning game ends, Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2
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23 Jun 1981 Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
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23 Jun 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200)
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23 Jun 1982 Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight
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23 Jun 1982 Chinese American Vincent Chin dies in a coma after being beaten in Highland Park, Michigan on June 19, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
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23 Jun 1982 -117
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23 Jun 1982 Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)
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23 Jun 1983 Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat
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23 Jun 1983 US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions
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23 Jun 1985 Alice Miller wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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23 Jun 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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23 Jun 1985 Air India jet crashes near Ireland, 329 killed
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23 Jun 1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
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23 Jun 1985 Laffit Pncay Jr becomes the 2nd jockey to win $100 million
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23 Jun 1986 Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84)
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23 Jun 1986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
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23 Jun 1987 W Landgraf discovers asteroid #3683 Baumann
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23 Jun 1988 Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft
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23 Jun 1988 Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager
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23 Jun 1989 Movie "Batman" premieres
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23 Jun 1989 The movie "Batman" premiers
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23 Jun 1990 Moldavia declares independence
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23 Jun 1990 Zimbabwe beat the Netherlands by 6 wickets to win ICC Trophy
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23 Jun 1990 A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Stat of Liberty
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23 Jun 1990 TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of the year
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23 Jun 1991 "Odd Couple" opens and closes at Belasco Theater, New York City
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23 Jun 1991 "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Babalu Music"
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23 Jun 1991 Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race
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23 Jun 1991 Tony Randall & Jack Klugman star in Bdwy performance of Odd Couple
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23 Jun 1992 "Tin Bigha Day" protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh
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23 Jun 1992 Emmy 19th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 13th time
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23 Jun 1992 Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election
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23 Jun 1993 Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) files for divorce from Lawrence Mortorff
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23 Jun 1993 UN authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti
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23 Jun 1994 South Africa reclaims its seat in UN
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23 Jun 1996 "Tartuffe: Born Again" closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 29 performances
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23 Jun 1996 Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
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23 Jun 1996 Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan
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23 Jun 1997 Dow Jones drops 192.25 pts
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23 Jun 1998 Lloyd J. Old contribution to the resurrection of the cancer immunosurveillance hypothesis and to the development of the expanded model of cancer immunoediting.
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23 Jun 2012 Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
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23 Jun 2013 Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
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23 Jun 2014 The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
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