SomeFacts | June 23

On this day - June 23

229 — Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.

1266 — War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians ...

1280 — The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate ...

1305 — A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at ...

1314 — First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn ...

1532 — Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the ...

1565 — Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great ...

1594 — The Action of Faial, Azores. The Portuguese carrack Cinco ...

1611 — The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets ...

1683 — William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenape Indians in ...

1713 — The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare ...

1757 — Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert ...

1758 — Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld: British, Hanoverian, ...

1760 — Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats ...

1780 — American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and ...

1794 — Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to ...

1810 — John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.

1812 — War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on ...

1860 — The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing ...

1865 — American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, ...

1868 — Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention ...

1887 — The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating ...

1894 — The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne ...

1913 — Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the ...

1914 — Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from ...

1917 — In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox ...

1919 — Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the ...

1925 — Shameen Incident: British Army and French Army soldiers ...

1926 — The College Board administers the first SAT exam.

1931 — Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, ...

1938 — The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the ...

1940 — Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east ...

1940 — Adolf Hitler goes on a three-hour tour of the architecture of ...

1941 — The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the ...

1942 — World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a ...

1944 — An F4 tornado tears through the Appalachian Mountains, killing ...

1946 — The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, ...

1947 — The United States Senate follows the United States House of ...

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

1956 — The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating ...

1959 — Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after ...

1960 — The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid ...

1961 — The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a ...

1967 — Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet ...

1968 — Seventy-four people were killed and 150 other injured in a ...

1969 — IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its ...

1969 — Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United ...

1972 — Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is ...

1972 — Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White ...

1973 — A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old ...

1985 — A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near ...

1991 — Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega ...

1994 — NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new ...

2001 — The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a ...

2005 — American social news and discussion site Reddit is founded in ...

2012 — Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United ...

2013 — Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near ...

2013 — Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across ...

2014 — The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped ...

2016 — The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European ...

2017 — A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, ...

2018 — Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in ...