June 23rd

Events

• 1713 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada.
• 1858 - Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.
• 1887 - Banff National Park, Canada's first, created.
• 1894 - International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• 1985 - An Air India Boeing 747 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, South of Ireland killing 329
• 1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Genesis in North America.

Births

• 1763 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (+ 1814).
• 1887 - Ernst Rowohlt, publisher (+ 1960).
• 1894 - Alfred Kinsey, entomologist, sexologist (+ 1956).
• 1894 - Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, Duke of Windsor (+ 1972).
• 1905 - Mary Livingstone, actress, wife of Jack Benny (+ 1983).
• 1906 - Wolfgang Koeppen, author (+ 1996).
• 1910 - Jean Anouilh, dramatist (+ 1987).
• 1912 - Alan Turing, mathematician (+ 1954).
• 1916 - Hermann Gmeiner, pedagogue (+ 1986).
• 1916 - Irene Worth, actress (+ 2002).
• 1929 - June Carter Cash, country music singer.
• 1940 - Adam Faith, singer and actor (+ 2003).
• 1940 - Lord Irvine of Lairg, British lawyer and Lord Chancellor
• 1940 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (+ 1994).
• 1956 - Glenn Danzig, rock and roll preformer.
• 1957 - Frances McDormand, actress.
• 1963 - Colin Montgomerie, golfer.
• 1964 - Joss Whedon, producer, director, screenwriter.
• 1972 - Zinedine Zidane, French football player.

Deaths

• 1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, savant (* 1672).
• 1980 - Clyfford Still, painter.
• 1995 - Jonas Salk, inventor of polio vaccine.
• 1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress.

Holidays and observances

• Ancient Latvia - Jani held.

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