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This day in history: 23 June

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373 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 23 June.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2018: Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Æthelthryth

Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Raffaella Cimatti

Christian feast day: Joseph Cafasso

Christian feast day: June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Marie of Oignies

Christian feast day: Thomas Garnet

Father's Day (Nicaragua, Poland)

Grand Duke's Official Birthday (Luxembourg)

International Widows Day (international)

International Women in Engineering Day

National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)

Okinawa Memorial Day (Okinawa Prefecture)

Events

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.

2017A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others.

2016Brexit: The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.

2014The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.

2013Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide.

2013Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.

2012Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.

2005American social news and discussion site Reddit is founded in Medford, Massachusetts by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian.

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.

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.

1991Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise.

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 ki

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.

1972Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.

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 th

1969IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.

1969Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.

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.

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.

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.

1960The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.

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.

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.

1951The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched.

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.

1946The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

1944An F4 tornado tears through the Appalachian Mountains, killing over 100 people in West Virginia, particularly in the town of Shinnston.

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.

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.

1940Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1938The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.

1931Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.

1926The College Board administers the first SAT exam.

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.

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.

1914Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.

1913Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.

1908The Persian Cossack Brigade bombards the building of the National Consultative Assembly of Iran (Majles), killing hundreds of civilians.

1894The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

1887The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

Born on this day

2008Lilliana Ketchman, American dancer and YouTuber

2007Elliana Walmsley, American dancer

2006Eli Junior Kroupi, French footballer

2000Starford To'a, New Zealand rugby league player

1994Ben Dwarshuis, Australian cricketer

1994Roger Martínez, Colombian footballer

1993Marvin Grumann, German footballer

1993Tim Anderson, American baseball player

1992Luiza Galiulina, Uzbekistani gymnast

1992Nampalys Mendy, French footballer

1991Katie Armiger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1990Clevid Dikamona, French footballer

1990Laura Ràfols, Spanish footballer

1990Vasek Pospisil, Canadian tennis player

1989Jordan Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player

1989Lisa Carrington, New Zealand flatwater canoeist

1988Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast

1988Chet Faker, Australian singer-songwriter

1987Alessia Filippi, Italian swimmer

1986Christy Altomare, American actress and singer-songwriter

1985Marcel Reece, American football player

1984Duffy, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress

1984Levern Spencer, Saint Lucian high jumper

1984Takeshi Matsuda, Japanese swimmer

1983Brooks Laich, Canadian ice hockey player

1983José Manuel Rojas, Chilean footballer

1982Derek Boogaard, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2011)

1981Antony Costa, English singer-songwriter

1981Rolf Wacha, German rugby player

1980Becky Cloonan, American author and illustrator

1980Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player

1980Melissa Rauch, American actress

1979LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player

1978Frederic Leclercq, French heavy metal musician

1978Matt Light, American football player and sportscaster

1978Memphis Bleek, American rapper, producer, and actor

1977Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer and manager

1977Jaan Jüris, Estonian ski jumper

1977Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1977Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer

Died on this day

2025John Clark, Scottish Footballer and Lisbon Lion (born 1941)

2025Rebekah Del Rio, American singer-songwriter (born 1967)

2021John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and businessman, founded McAfee (born 1945)

2016Ralph Stanley, American singer and banjo player (born 1927)

2015Dick Van Patten, American actor (born 1928)

2015Miguel Facussé Barjum, Honduran businessman (born 1924)

2015Nirmala Joshi, Indian nun, lawyer, and social worker (born 1934)

2014Euros Lewis, Welsh cricketer (born 1942)

2014Nancy Garden, American author (born 1938)

2014Paula Kent Meehan, American businesswoman, co-founded Redken (born 1931)

2013Bobby Bland, American singer-songwriter (born 1930)

2013Darryl Read, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (born 1951)

2013Frank Kelso, American admiral and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1933)

2013Gary David Goldberg, American screenwriter and producer (born 1944)

2013Kurt Leichtweiss, German mathematician and academic (born 1927)

2013Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (born 1926)

2013Sharon Stouder, American swimmer (born 1948)

2012Alan McDonald, Northern Ireland footballer and manager (born 1963)

2012Brigitte Engerer, French pianist and educator (born 1952)

2012Frank Chee Willeto, American soldier and politician, 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation (born 1925)

2012James Durbin, English economist and statistician (born 1923)

2012Walter J. Zable, American football player and businessman, founded the Cubic Corporation (born 1915)

2011Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (born 1985)

2011Fred Steiner, American composer and conductor (born 1923)

2011Peter Falk, American actor (born 1927)

2010John Burton, Australian public servant and diplomat (born 1915)

2009Ed McMahon, American game show host and announcer (born 1923)

2009Jerri Nielsen, American physician and explorer (born 1952)

2009Raymond Berthiaume, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (born 1931)

2008Arthur Chung, Guyanese surveyor and politician, 1st President of Guyana (born 1918)

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