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

• 79 –
  Titus succeeds his father Vespasian as the tenth Roman Emperor.
• 1314 –
  First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
• 1532 –
  Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
• 1894 –
  The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• 1931 –
  Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
• 1938 –
  The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• 1940 –
  World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
• 1958 –
  The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
• 1972 –
  Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
• 1982 –
  Chinese American Vincent Chin is beaten to death in Highland Park, Michigan, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.

Who were born on June 23?

• 1763 –
  Joséphine de Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon I Bonaparte (d. 1814)
• 1799 –
  John Milton Bernhisel, American physician (d. 1881)
• 1927 –
  Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d. 1987)
• 1935 –
  Maurice Ferre, American politician
• 1961 –
  LaSalle Thompson, American basketball player
• 1964 –
  Joss Whedon, American producer, director, and screenwriter
• 1965 –
  Mitch Longley American actor
• 1974 –
  Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
• 1978 –
  Frédéric Leclercq, French bassist (DragonForce)
• 1981 –
  Rolf Wacha, German rugby player

Who died on June 23?

• 1222 –
  Constance of Aragon, consort of Ladislaus III of Hungary and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. c. 1179)
• 1555 –
  Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
• 1832 –
  James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
• 1893 –
  Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)
• 1945 –
  Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian resistance member (b. 1923)
• 1989 –
  Werner Best, German jurist and Nazi party leader (b. 1903)
• 1996 –
  Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (b. 1919)
• 2000 –
  Peter L. Pond, American activist and philanthropist (b. 1933)
• 2008 –
  Judith Holzmeister, Austrian actress (b. 1920)
• 2009 –
  Jerri Nielsen, American physician (b. 1952)