Monday, June 23, 2014

History for June 23

History for June 23 - On-This-Day.com:
Baby Boomers Recognition Day


England: Lawn Tennis Championship at Wimbledon begin (June 23-July 6). See www.wimbledon.org


Birth anniversary of British mathematician, logician and cryptographer Alan Turing—father of modern computer science and artificial intelligence (1912-54).
Birth anniversaries of June Carter Cash (1929-2004), Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956), and Wilma Rudolph (1940-94).











Happy Birthday! Bryan Brown, Frances McDormand, Clarence Thomas


1683 - William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. 



1836 - The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states. 


1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer." 


1884 - A Chinese Army defeated the French at Bacle, Indochina. 


1902 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple Alliance for a 12 year duration. 






1947 - The U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. 


1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt. 


1972 - U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. 


2004 - The U.S. proposed that North Korea agree to a series of nuclear disarmament measures over a three-month period in exchange for economic benefits. 

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