June 23
1860 - A Congressional resolution authorized creation of the United States Government Printing Office, which opened the following year.
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 National 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.)
1931 - Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on a round-the-world flight that lasted eight days and 15 hours.
1947 - The Senate overrode President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.
1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin opened a three-day summit at Glassboro State College in New Jersey.
1969 - Warren Burger was sworn in as the 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.
1992 - Mobster John Gotti was sentenced to life in prison.
1995 - Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the polio vaccine, died at age 80.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan's School of Law affirmative action policy.
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.
2017 - President Donald Trump signed a bill making it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire employees, part of a push to overhaul an agency struggling to serve millions of military vets.
2017 - California Gov. Jerry Brown blocked parole for Charles Manson follower and convicted killer Bruce Davis.
2020 - The Louisville police department fired an officer involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor more than three months earlier, saying Brett Hankison had shown “extreme indifference to the value of human life” when he fired ten rounds into Taylor’s apartment. (A second officer was also fired; Hankison was found not guilty on charges that he endangered neighbors.)
2021 - After 13 years of near silence in the conservatorship that controlled her life and money, pop star Britney Spears told a judge in Los Angeles that the conservatorship controlled by her father and others had made her feel demoralized and enslaved, and that it should come to an end. (The judge would agree to that request in November 2021.)
Birthdays
27 - Danna Paola (singer)
28 - HoYeon Jung (actress)
31 - Katie Armiger (singer)
33 - Allie Bertram (actress)
33 - Billie Kay (professional wrestler)
38 - Duffy (singer)
42 - Melissa Rauch (actress)
43 - LaDainian Tomlinson (football player)
45 - Jason Mraz (singer)
46 - Emmanuelle Vaugier (actress)
47 - KT Tunstall (singer)
48 - Joel Edgerton (actor)
50 - Selma Blair (actress)
58 - Joss Whedon (director)
65 - Frances McDormand (actress)
66 - Randy Jackson (TV host)
71 - Jim Metzler (actor)
74 - Clarence Thomas (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
75 - Bryan Brown (actor)
76 - Ted Shackelford (actor)
82 - Diana Trask (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 23
1917 - Ernie Shore (Boston Red Sox) replaced Babe Ruth and retired all 26 batters he faced. Ruth had been ejected from the game.
1972 - President Richard Nixon signed the Higher Education Act of 1972 into law. Title IX of that Act barred discrimination on the basis of sex for "any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
1996 - American track star Michael Johnson broke the world record for the men's 200 meter race. He ran it in 19.66 seconds.
2003 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants becomes the first player in MLB history to record 500 career home runs and 500 career stolen bases.
2005 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Detroit Pistons in seven games to win the NBA championship.
2012 - Ashton Eaton broke the world record in the decathlon, finishing with 9,039 points at the U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon. (Eaton later surpassed his own record with 9,045 points at the 2015 Beijing world championships.)
1860 - A Congressional resolution authorized creation of the United States Government Printing Office, which opened the following year.
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 National 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.)
1931 - Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on a round-the-world flight that lasted eight days and 15 hours.
1947 - The Senate overrode President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.
1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin opened a three-day summit at Glassboro State College in New Jersey.
1969 - Warren Burger was sworn in as the 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.
1992 - Mobster John Gotti was sentenced to life in prison.
1995 - Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the polio vaccine, died at age 80.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan's School of Law affirmative action policy.
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.
2017 - President Donald Trump signed a bill making it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire employees, part of a push to overhaul an agency struggling to serve millions of military vets.
2017 - California Gov. Jerry Brown blocked parole for Charles Manson follower and convicted killer Bruce Davis.
2020 - The Louisville police department fired an officer involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor more than three months earlier, saying Brett Hankison had shown “extreme indifference to the value of human life” when he fired ten rounds into Taylor’s apartment. (A second officer was also fired; Hankison was found not guilty on charges that he endangered neighbors.)
2021 - After 13 years of near silence in the conservatorship that controlled her life and money, pop star Britney Spears told a judge in Los Angeles that the conservatorship controlled by her father and others had made her feel demoralized and enslaved, and that it should come to an end. (The judge would agree to that request in November 2021.)
Birthdays
27 - Danna Paola (singer)
28 - HoYeon Jung (actress)
31 - Katie Armiger (singer)
33 - Allie Bertram (actress)
33 - Billie Kay (professional wrestler)
38 - Duffy (singer)
42 - Melissa Rauch (actress)
43 - LaDainian Tomlinson (football player)
45 - Jason Mraz (singer)
46 - Emmanuelle Vaugier (actress)
47 - KT Tunstall (singer)
48 - Joel Edgerton (actor)
50 - Selma Blair (actress)
58 - Joss Whedon (director)
65 - Frances McDormand (actress)
66 - Randy Jackson (TV host)
71 - Jim Metzler (actor)
74 - Clarence Thomas (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
75 - Bryan Brown (actor)
76 - Ted Shackelford (actor)
82 - Diana Trask (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 23
1917 - Ernie Shore (Boston Red Sox) replaced Babe Ruth and retired all 26 batters he faced. Ruth had been ejected from the game.
1972 - President Richard Nixon signed the Higher Education Act of 1972 into law. Title IX of that Act barred discrimination on the basis of sex for "any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
1996 - American track star Michael Johnson broke the world record for the men's 200 meter race. He ran it in 19.66 seconds.
2003 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants becomes the first player in MLB history to record 500 career home runs and 500 career stolen bases.
2005 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Detroit Pistons in seven games to win the NBA championship.
2012 - Ashton Eaton broke the world record in the decathlon, finishing with 9,039 points at the U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon. (Eaton later surpassed his own record with 9,045 points at the 2015 Beijing world championships.)
