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 174^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 10, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,177,280 minutes 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.

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 239 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 4,567 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 23 Historical Events

• 1713 –
  The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 1794 –
  Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
• 1810 –
  John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
• 1865 –
  American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
• 1919 –
  Estonian War of Independence: the decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
• 1926 –
  The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
• 1941 –
  The 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.
• 1959 –
  A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
• 1959 –
  Convicted 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.
• 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?

• 1800 –
  Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
• 1888 –
  Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
• 1943 –
  James Levine, American conductor
• 1962 –
  Kari Takko, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1974 –
  Mark Hendrickson, American baseball player
• 1975 –
  Kevin Dyson, American football player
• 1976 –
  Patrick Monahan, British comedian
• 1977 –
  Shaun O'Hara, American football player
• 1980 –
  Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
• 1987 –
  Alessia Filippi, Italian swimmer

Who died on June 23?

• 1018 –
  Henry I, Margrave of Austria (birth year unknown)
• 1582 –
  Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
• 1615 –
  Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
• 1677 –
  Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
• 1811 –
  Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, Portuguese poet and satirist (b. 1740)
• 1989 –
  Werner Best, German jurist and Nazi party leader (b. 1903)
• 1999 –
  Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. 1920)
• 2000 –
  Peter L. Pond, American activist and philanthropist (b. 1933)
• 2006 –
  Luke Graham, American wrestler (b. 1940)
• 2008 –
  Judith Holzmeister, Austrian actress (b. 1920)