Wikipedia defines history as the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. It came from the Greek word ‘historia’ – which means ‘inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation’.
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This website utilizes pages from Wikipedia to extract historical events from 3761 BC up to the present. There are 105,062 records in the database that include events, births and deaths of popular individuals. The present day Gregorian calendar was adopted to show dates of interest.
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What are the important events that happened on June 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 23: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 23 is the 174th day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 10, 2017 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 416,160 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontatetragon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 241 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,645 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 23 Historical Events
- 1760 –Seven Years’ War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.
- 1810 –John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
- 1926 –The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
- 1967 –Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
- 1972 –Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
Who were born on June 23?
- 1925 –Miriam Karlin, English actress (d. 2011)
- 1951 –Jim Metzler, American actor
- 1975 –Mike James, American basketball player
- 1976 –Savvas Poursaitidis, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1983 –Brooks Laich, Canadian ice hockey player
Who died on June 23?
- 1555 –Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
- 2006 –Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
- 2006 –Luke Graham, American wrestler (b. 1940)
- 2008 –Judith Holzmeister, Austrian actress (b. 1920)
- 2009 –Jerri Nielsen, American physician (b. 1952)
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