June 23

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Born on this Day

JUNE IS:

Fiction is Fun Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Burglary Prevention Month
National Candy Month
Student Safety Month

Today is:

Cosmic Patience Day - On this day in 1974, the first extraterrestrial message was sent from Earth into space. Sponsor: A Pilgrim's Almanac.

Triumph over Adversity Day - Celebrated on the birthday of Wilma Rudolph, born on this day in 1940, in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. She wore a leg brace due to polio until the age of 12. She went on to become the first American women to win 3 Olympic gold medals for running.

 

1846: George Sax, inventor of the saxophone.

1894: The Duke of Windsor, Britain's former King Edward VIII

1894: Pioneer sex researcher Alfred Kinsey

19??: Mark Lowry

19??: Scott Harper (Benjamin)

19??: Sandra Stephens

1910: Jazz musician Milt Hinton

1911: Advertising executive David Ogilvy

1912: Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory

1913: Former Secretary of State William P. Rogers

1916: Actress Irene Worth

1925: Actor Larry Blyden

1927: Director-choreographer Bob Fosse

1929: Singer June Carter Cash

1939: Actor Bert Convy

1940: Singer Adam Faith

1940: Runner and U.S. Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph

1940: Singer Diana Trask

1943: Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine

1944: Rhythm-and-blues singer Rosetta Hightower (The Orlons)

1946: Actor Ted Shackelford

1947: Actor Bryan Brown

1948: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

1955: Actor Jim Metzler

1957: Actress Frances McDormand

1959: Actress Karin Gustafson ("Taps")

1960: Singer Chico DeBarge

1962: Rock musician Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth)

1962: Actor Paul La Greca

1970: Singer Chico DeBarge

1972: Actress Selma Blair

1975: Rhythm-and-blues singer Virgo Williams (Ghostowns DJs)

 

 

Events in History on this day
 

0286: Decapitation of St. Alban, said to be 1st Christian martyr in Britain

0679: Death of St. Etheldreda (Audrey)

0930: First meeting of the Icelandic Parliament

1097: Turkish army surrenders to Crusaders at Nicea

1314: The army of Edward II, King of England, crosses the Bannockburn

1377: Death of Edward III, King of England

1532: Peace of Nuremburg

1626: A large Codfish, opened at Cambridge market, was found to contain a copy of John Frith's book of religious treatises

1634: Prince Ferdinand's army leaves Milan for Germany

1637: St Gilles Riot

1650: Charles II, King of England, lands in Scotland

1836: Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.

1845: The Congress of the Republic of Texas agreed to annexation by the United States.

1860: Modest Mussorgsky finished work on "Night on Bald Mountain," to use the most common English-language title. The literal translation of the original title was, "Saint John's Night on a Bare Mountain," which is certainly more evocative.

1868: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer."

1931: Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.

1938: The Civil Aeronautics Authority was established.

1947: Congress enacted the Taft-Hartley labor act over the veto of President Truman.

1956: Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.

1967: President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin held the first of two meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey.

1967: The Senate censured Sen. Thomas Dodd, D-Conn., for misusing campaign funds.

1969: Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren.

1972: President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation sparked Nixon's resignation in 1974.)

1985: An Air India Boeing 747 from Toronto crashed off the Irish coast, killing all 329 people aboard in the world's worst commercial air disaster at sea.

1986: House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill refused a request from the White House for President Reagan to address only the House of Representatives on the issue of aid for the Nicaraguan Contras.

1987: The Iran-Contra hearings resumed with testimony from former CIA employee Glenn A. Robinette, who said he'd installed a $14,000 security system at the home of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, then helped make it appear that North had paid for the work.

1987: Alice Cooper broke six ribs when he fell off the stage in Vancouver.

1987: Severe hailstorms in eastern Colorado caused $70 million in property and crop damage.

1987: Madonna became the first celebrity cover girl to appear on Cosmopolitan's cover since Elizabeth Taylor in 1969.

1988: Pope John Paul the Second began his second papal visit to Austria, where he met with President Kurt Waldheim, despite controversy over Waldheim's alleged involvement in Nazi war crimes.

1989: The U.S. Supreme Court refused to shut down the dial-a-porn industry, ruling that Congress had gone too far in passing a law banning all sexually-oriented phone message services.

1990: African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela received a tumultuous welcome in Boston as he continued his U.S. tour.

1991: The Group of Seven finance ministers and central bankers, meeting in London, agreed that the Soviet Union should become the first associate member of the International Monetary Fund.

1992: John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.

1992: Israel's Labor Party upset the hard-line Likud bloc in parliamentary elections. John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.

1993: In a case that drew widespread attention, 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.)

1993: Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields recorded a whole lot of Handel for the German label Hanssler. First out was the early Concerti Grossi. It took three compact discs to record all of Handel's Concerti Grossi.

1993: Princeton University professor Andrew Wiles claimed to have proven Fermat's last theorem, a problem that had perplexed mathematicians for 350 years.

1994: French marines and Foreign Legionnaires headed into Rwanda to try to stem the country's ethnic slaughter.

1994: The United States and Russia signed agreements in Washington on cooperating in space and economic development.

1995: Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, died in La Jolla, California, at age 80.

1996: Congressional Democrats unveiled a "families first" legislative package aimed at winning middle-class voters and retaking Capitol Hill.

1996: Former Greek prime minister Andreas Papandreou died at age 77.

1997: Civil rights activist Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, died in New York of burns suffered in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson; she was 61. (Malcolm Shabazz was sentenced to 18 months at a Massachusetts facility specializing in young arsonists.)

1998: President Clinton said the reported discovery of traces of deadly nerve gas on an Iraqi missile warhead gave the United States new ammunition to maintain tough UN sanctions against the Baghdad government.

1999: A divided Supreme Court dramatically enhanced states' rights in three decisions that eroded Congress' power.

1999: U.S. Marines in Kosovo killed one person and wounded two others after coming under fire; no Marines were injured.

2000: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, during a visit to South Korea, said American troops would remain in the country indefinitely to maintain strategic stability in the Pacific area.


 

 


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