Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 23
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Banff National Park -
Castle Mountain, Banff National Park -
Lake Louise, Banff National Park -
Stand Watie -
Baron Pierre de Coubertin -
Pierre de Coubertin -
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
Moraine Lake, Banff National Park
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| St John's Day and Victory Day in Estonia | both: refimprove |
| Jāņi in Latvia; | refimprove |
| Saint Jonas' Festival in Lithuania; | tagged as stub |
| 1713 – After Queen Anne's War, French residents of Acadia were given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia. | refimprove section |
| 1757 – Seven Years' War: British forces under Robert Clive defeated troops under Siraj ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey, allowing the British East India Company to annex Bengal. | unreferenced section |
| 1780 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army defeated British and Hessian troops at the Battle of Springfield, effectively ending British ambitions in New Jersey. | lots of cns |
| 1817 – The Articles of Association of the Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, were adopted. | refimprove |
| 1858 – Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy, was seized by papal authorities and taken to be raised as a Roman Catholic, sparking an international controversy. | neutrality issues |
| 1894 – Led by French historian Pierre de Coubertin (pictured), an international congress at the Sorbonne in Paris formed the International Olympic Committee to revive the ancient Olympic Games. | refimprove |
| 1919 – Estonian War of Independence: Estonian troops engaged the forces of the Pro-German Government of Latvia near Cēsis, Latvia, recapturing the area four days later. | unreferenced section |
| 1961 – The Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, came into force. | already featured on December 1 |
| 1972 – More than forty countries left the sterling area, allowing their currencies to float independently of the British pound. | refimprove, date/fact not in article |
| 1985 – A bomb attributed to the Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa destroyed Air India Flight 182 above the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 329 on board. | refimprove |
| Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland |b|1456| | refimprove |
| Huda Sha'arawi |b|1879| | Date not cited |
| Mana Ashida|b|2004 | Date not cited |
Eligible
- 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In an action off Trapani, Sicily, a Venetian fleet captured all 27 opposing Genoese vessels.
- 1280 – Reconquista: Troops of the Emirate of Granada defeated those of the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of León in the Battle of Moclín.
- 1594 – Anglo-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.
- 1797 – War of the First Coalition: Napoleon signed the Armistice of Bologna, agreeing a ceasefire between France and the Papal States.
- 1944 – The Holocaust: After a closely supervised visit to Theresienstadt Ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Red Cross official Maurice Rossel reported that conditions there were "almost normal".
- 1946 – Canada's largest recorded onshore earthquake struck Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
- 1956 – In a nationwide referendum, Gamal Abdel Nasser (pictured) was elected President of Egypt, a post he held until his death in 1970.
- 1972 – President Richard Nixon signed Title IX (co-author Patsy Mink pictured) into law as part of the Education Amendments, prohibiting gender discrimination in any educational program receiving U.S. federal funds.
- 1973 – The Los Angeles Dodgers started Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey, and Bill Russell in the infield, beginning a record eight-year run in Major League Baseball for four people designated as starters for those positions.
- 1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin died after being beaten into a coma in Highland Park, Michigan, U.S., by two automotive workers who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
- 1992 – Croatian War of Independence: The Battle of the Miljevci Plateau ended after a failed counterattack by forces of the Republic of Serbian Krajina against the Croatian Army who had captured the plateau.
- 2016 – Citizens of the United Kingdom voted in favour of leaving the European Union.
- Born/died this day: | Li Congyi and Consort Dowager Wang |d|947| Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke |d|1324| Richard W. Meade |b|1778| Cyclone Taylor|b|1884| Verena Holmes |b|1889| Len Hutton |b|1916| Bill Torrey|b|1934| Heinrich Schnee |d|1949| Michèle Mouton |b|1951| Joss Whedon|b|1964| LaDainian Tomlinson |b|1979| Sanjay Gandhi |d|1980| Lisa Carrington|b|1989| Lim Ji-yeon|b|1990| Syndicate|b|1993| Betty Shabazz |d|1997| Doug Ring|d|2003| Nguyễn Chánh Thi|d|2007|
June 23: Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg
Autograph score of BWV 39
- 1726 – On the First Sunday after Trinity, J. S. Bach led the first performance of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 (page pictured), one of a few new cantatas written that year.
- 1865 – Stand Watie became the last Confederate general of the American Civil War to surrender to Union forces.
- 1887 – The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park in Alberta as the country's first national park.
- 1926 – The College Board administered the first Scholastic Aptitude Test, a major standardized test for university and college admissions in the United States.
- 1991 – The first instalment of the video-game series Sonic the Hedgehog was released in North America.
- Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1324)
- Len Hutton (b. 1916)
- Bill Torrey (b. 1934)
- Joss Whedon (b. 1964)