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What happened on June 23
On June 23 history recorded 61 notable events. 160 people who left a mark were born on this day, and 97 died. Here is the full almanac.
- 61events
- 160births
- 97deaths
- 21observances
Highlights
Highlights
1266War of Saint Sabas: In an action off Trapani, Sicily, a Venetian fleet captured all 27 opposing Genoese vessels.
The War of Saint Sabas was a conflict between the rival Italian maritime republics of Genoa and Venice over control of Acre, in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1280Reconquista: Troops of the Emirate of Granada defeated those of the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of León in the Battle of Moclín.
The Reconquista or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military campaigns by northern Iberian Christian polities against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, which had previously been part of the Visigothic Kingdom before the Muslim Conquest of 711. The Reconquista con
1594Anglo-Spanish War: During the Action of Faial, an English attempt to capture a Portuguese carrack, reputedly one of the richest ever to set sail from the Indies, caused it to explode with all the treasure lost.
The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between Habsburg Spain and the Kingdom of England that was never formally declared. It began with England's military expedition in 1585 to what was then the Spanish Netherlands under the command of
June 23
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III century
- 229
229Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
XIII century
- 1266
1266War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships. - 1280
1280The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of Castile. - 1287
1287The Aragonese fleet under Roger of Lauria defeats a Angevin fleet in the Battle of the Counts close to Naples.
XIV century
XVI century
- 1532
1532Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the "Treaty of Closer Amity With France" (also known as the Pommeraye treaty), pledging mutual aid against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. - 1565
1565Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta. - 1594
1594The Action of Faial, Azores. The Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas, loaded with slaves and treasure, is attacked and sunk by English ships with only 13 survivors out of over 700 on board.
XVII century
XVIII century
- 1713
1713The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada. - 1757
1757Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey. - 1758
1758Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld: British, Hanoverian, and Prussian forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany. - 1760
1760Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia. - 1780
1780American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township). - 1794
1794Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kyiv.
XIX century
- 1810
1810John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company. - 1812
1812War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war. - 1860
1860The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office. - 1865
1865American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army. - 1868
1868Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer". - 1887
1887The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park. - 1894
1894The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
XX century
- 1908
1908The Persian Cossack Brigade bombards the building of the National Consultative Assembly of Iran (Majles), killing hundreds of civilians. - 1913
1913Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran. - 1914
1914Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta. - 1919
1919Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia. - 1925
1925Shameen Incident: British Army and French Army soldiers stationed in the concession of Shameen open fire on Chinese protesters, resulting in at least 52 deaths. - 1926
1926The College Board administers the first SAT exam. - 1931
1931Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane. - 1938
1938The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States. - 1940
1940Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. - 1941
1941The 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
1942World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. - 1944
1944An F4 tornado tears through the Appalachian Mountains, killing over 100 people in West Virginia, particularly in the town of Shinnston. - 1946
1946The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. - 1947
1947The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act. - 1951
1951The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched. - 1956
1956The 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
1959Convicted 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. - 1960
1960The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world. - 1961
1961The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force. - 1967
1967Cold 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
1968Seventy-four people were killed and 150 others injured in a stampede at a football match between Boca Juniors and Club Atlético River Plate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. - 1969
1969Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren. - 1969
1969IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry. - 1972
1972Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins. - 1972
1972Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds. - 1973
1973A 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 serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale. - 1985
1985A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo, killing two and injuring four. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard. - 1991
1991Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise. - 1994
1994NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
XXI century
- 2001
2001The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured. - 2005
2005American social news and discussion site Reddit is founded in Medford, Massachusetts by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. - 2012
2012Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials. - 2013
2013Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope. - 2013
2013Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide. - 2014
2014The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction. - 2016
2016Brexit: The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%. - 2017
2017A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others. - 2018
2018Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.
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Holidays and observances
- Christian feast day: Æthelthryth
- Christian feast day: Joseph Cafasso
- Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Raffaella Cimatti
- Christian feast day: Marie of Oignies
- Christian feast day: Thomas Garnet
- Christian feast day: June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Father's Day (Nicaragua, Poland)
- Grand Duke's Official Birthday (Luxembourg)
- International Women in Engineering Day
- International Widows Day (international)
- National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)
- Okinawa Memorial Day (Okinawa Prefecture)
- Saint 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, Europe): Bonfires of Saint John (Spain)
- Saint 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, Europe): First night of Festa de São João do Porto (Porto)
Frequently asked questions
What happened on June 23?
61 documented historical events happened on June 23, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: War of Saint Sabas: In an action off Trapani, Sicily, a Venetian fleet captured all 27 opposing Genoese vessels. On the same day, in another year: Reconquista: Troops of the Emirate of Granada defeated those of the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of León in the Battle of Moclín. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
Who was born on June 23?
160 people with a Wikipedia article were born on June 23, including Len Hutton, Mohamed Boudiaf, Paul Findley. The list spans every era and every field — art, science, politics, sport, entertainment — ordered by year of birth, from the earliest to the most recent. The six featured people are those most has been written about: the ordering uses the length of their Wikipedia article as an indicator of prominence. For each one you find their occupation, year of birth and a link to the full biography.
Who died on June 23?
97 people with a Wikipedia article died on June 23, including AD 79, Henry I of Austria, Adalbert I of Mainz. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What is celebrated on June 23?
21 observances are celebrated on June 23 around the world: Christian feast day: Æthelthryth, Christian feast day: Joseph Cafasso, Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Raffaella Cimatti, Christian feast day: Marie of Oignies, Christian feast day: Thomas Garnet, Christian feast day: June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics). The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
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