June 23
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer."
1888 - Abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, effectively making him the first Black candidate to have his name placed in nomination for U.S. president. (The nomination went to Benjamin Harrison.)
1892 - The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.
1904 - President Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for a second term of office at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1931 - Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane that lasted eight days and 15 hours.
1947 - The U.S. Senate overrode President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allowed the president to intervene in labor disputes.
1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1969 - Warren Burger was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1972 - President Richard Nixon and H.R. Haldeman discussed ways to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. Revelation of this conversation spurred on Nixon's 1974 resignation.
1985 - All 329 people aboard an Air India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland because of a bomb authorities believe was planted by Sikh separatists.
1988 - James E. Hansen, a climatologist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told a Senate panel that global warming of the earth caused by the “greenhouse effect” was a reality.
1992 - John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.
1993 - Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Virginia, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her. (John Bobbitt was later acquitted of marital sexual assault; Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding by reason of insanity.)
1995 - Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first polio vaccine, died at age 80.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan's School of Law affirmative action policy.
2005 - Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
2009 - Longtime "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon died in Los Angeles at age 86.
2011 - Republicans pulled out of debt-reduction talks led by Vice President Joe Biden, blaming Democrats for demanding tax increases as part of a deal rather than accepting more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicare and other government programs.
2016 - Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling Prime Minister David Cameron, who had led the campaign to keep Britain in the EU.
2016 - A short-handed and deeply-divided U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on President Barack Obama's immigration plan to help millions living in the U.S. illegally, effectively killing it; In a narrow victory for affirmative action, the Court upheld on a 4-3 vote, a University of Texas program that took account of race in deciding whom to admit.
Birthdays
30 - Katie Armiger (country singer)
32 - Allie Bertram (actress)
32 - Billie Kay (professional wrestler)
37 - Duffy (singer)
41 - Melissa Rauch (actress)
42 - LaDainian Tomlinson (football player)
44 - Jason Mraz (singer)
45 - Emmanuelle Vaugier (actress)
46 - KT Tunstall (singer)
47 - Joel Edgerton (actor)
49 - Selma Blair (actress)
51 - Chico DeBarge (singer)
57 - Joss Whedon (director)
64 - Frances McDormand (actress)
65 - Randy Jackson (TV personality)
70 - Jim Metzler (actor)
73 - Clarence Thomas (Supreme Court justice)
74 - Bryan Brown (actor)
75 - Ted Shackelford (actor)
81 - Diana Trask (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 23
1894 - The International Olympic Committee is founded in Paris.
1917 - Ernie Shore (Boston Red Sox) replaced Babe Ruth and retired all 26 batters he faced against the Washington Senators. Ruth had been ejected from the game for throwing a punch at an umpire.
1922 - Walter Hagen becomes the first American-born winner of the British Open.
1972 - President Richard Nixon signed Higher Education Act of 1972 into law. Title IX of this act barred discrimination on the basis of sex for "any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
1981 - In the longest professional baseball game in history, the Pawtucket Red Sox defeated the Rochester Red Wings 3-2 in 33 innings.
1991 - A Mazda became the first Japanese car to win the Le Mans 24 hour race.
1994 - Replay shows Bobby Witt of the Oakland Athletics beat Kansas City's Greg Gagne to first in the 6th inning, but the umpire called him safe, ultimately ruining Witt's perfect game.
1996 - American sprinter Michael Johnson broke the world record in the 200 meter dash with a time of 19.66 seconds.
2003 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants becomes the first player in major league history with 500 career home runs and 500 career stolen bases.
2005 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Detroit Pistons in seven games to win their third NBA championship.
2008 - Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners becomes the first pitcher since Steve Dunning in 1971 to hit a grand slam home run.
2020 - Major League Baseball issued a 60-game schedule for a season to start in late July in empty ballparks.
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer."
1888 - Abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, effectively making him the first Black candidate to have his name placed in nomination for U.S. president. (The nomination went to Benjamin Harrison.)
1892 - The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.
1904 - President Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for a second term of office at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1931 - Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane that lasted eight days and 15 hours.
1947 - The U.S. Senate overrode President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allowed the president to intervene in labor disputes.
1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1969 - Warren Burger was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1972 - President Richard Nixon and H.R. Haldeman discussed ways to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. Revelation of this conversation spurred on Nixon's 1974 resignation.
1985 - All 329 people aboard an Air India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland because of a bomb authorities believe was planted by Sikh separatists.
1988 - James E. Hansen, a climatologist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told a Senate panel that global warming of the earth caused by the “greenhouse effect” was a reality.
1992 - John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.
1993 - Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Virginia, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her. (John Bobbitt was later acquitted of marital sexual assault; Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding by reason of insanity.)
1995 - Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first polio vaccine, died at age 80.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan's School of Law affirmative action policy.
2005 - Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
2009 - Longtime "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon died in Los Angeles at age 86.
2011 - Republicans pulled out of debt-reduction talks led by Vice President Joe Biden, blaming Democrats for demanding tax increases as part of a deal rather than accepting more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicare and other government programs.
2016 - Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling Prime Minister David Cameron, who had led the campaign to keep Britain in the EU.
2016 - A short-handed and deeply-divided U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on President Barack Obama's immigration plan to help millions living in the U.S. illegally, effectively killing it; In a narrow victory for affirmative action, the Court upheld on a 4-3 vote, a University of Texas program that took account of race in deciding whom to admit.
Birthdays
30 - Katie Armiger (country singer)
32 - Allie Bertram (actress)
32 - Billie Kay (professional wrestler)
37 - Duffy (singer)
41 - Melissa Rauch (actress)
42 - LaDainian Tomlinson (football player)
44 - Jason Mraz (singer)
45 - Emmanuelle Vaugier (actress)
46 - KT Tunstall (singer)
47 - Joel Edgerton (actor)
49 - Selma Blair (actress)
51 - Chico DeBarge (singer)
57 - Joss Whedon (director)
64 - Frances McDormand (actress)
65 - Randy Jackson (TV personality)
70 - Jim Metzler (actor)
73 - Clarence Thomas (Supreme Court justice)
74 - Bryan Brown (actor)
75 - Ted Shackelford (actor)
81 - Diana Trask (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 23
1894 - The International Olympic Committee is founded in Paris.
1917 - Ernie Shore (Boston Red Sox) replaced Babe Ruth and retired all 26 batters he faced against the Washington Senators. Ruth had been ejected from the game for throwing a punch at an umpire.
1922 - Walter Hagen becomes the first American-born winner of the British Open.
1972 - President Richard Nixon signed Higher Education Act of 1972 into law. Title IX of this act barred discrimination on the basis of sex for "any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
1981 - In the longest professional baseball game in history, the Pawtucket Red Sox defeated the Rochester Red Wings 3-2 in 33 innings.
1991 - A Mazda became the first Japanese car to win the Le Mans 24 hour race.
1994 - Replay shows Bobby Witt of the Oakland Athletics beat Kansas City's Greg Gagne to first in the 6th inning, but the umpire called him safe, ultimately ruining Witt's perfect game.
1996 - American sprinter Michael Johnson broke the world record in the 200 meter dash with a time of 19.66 seconds.
2003 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants becomes the first player in major league history with 500 career home runs and 500 career stolen bases.
2005 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Detroit Pistons in seven games to win their third NBA championship.
2008 - Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners becomes the first pitcher since Steve Dunning in 1971 to hit a grand slam home run.
2020 - Major League Baseball issued a 60-game schedule for a season to start in late July in empty ballparks.
