On this day in History - Jun 23

• 47 BC - Prince Caesarion of Egypt, was born. Pharaoh Ptolemy XV.
• 0079 - Vespasian dies (b. AD 9). Roman Emperor.
• 1018 - Henry I of Austria dies.
• 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
• 1295 - Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome.
• 1305 - Flemish-French peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
• 1314 - First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn, south of Stirling, begins. Edward II of England & Robert I of Scotland met in battle. Scotland won and Edward fled the field and Scotland.
• 1373 - Queen Joan II of Naples was born (d. 1435).
• 1433 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany was born (d. 1488).
• 1456 - Margaret of Denmark was born (d. 1486). Wife of James III of Scotland.
• 1516 - Ferdinand II of Aragon dies (b. 1452).
• 1532 - Henry VIII & François I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
• 1534 - Oda Nobunaga was born (d. 1582). Japanese warlord (daimyo).
• 1537 - Pedro de Mendoza dies. Spanish explorer.
• 1555 - Pedro Mascarenhas dies (b. 1470). Portuguese explorer.
• 1565 - Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman Navy dies, during the Siege of Malta.
• 1582 - Shimizu Muneharu dies (b. 1537). Japanese military leader.
• 1596 - Johan Banér was born (d. 1641). Swedish soldier.
• 1611 - The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in the Atlantic Ocean; they are never heard from again.
• 1612 - André Tacquet was born (d. 1660). Belgian mathematician.
• 1615 - Mashita Nagamori des (b. 1545). Japanese warlord.
• 1661 - Marriage contract between Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal. Tratado de paz e aliança entre Carlos II de Inglaterra e D. Afonso VI. Com o casamento de D. Catarina, irmã de D. Afonso, o pagamento de 2 milhões de cruzados de dote, e a entrega de Tânger e de Bombaim, a Inglaterra enviará uma força militar de 3.000 homens para ajuda na defesa de Portugal, e garantirá o seu apoio internacional.
• 1662 - D. Afonso destitui a regente (D. Luisa de Gusmão) e assume a coroa portuguesa.
• 1668 - Giambattista Vico was born (d. 1744). Italian philosopher and historian.
• 1677 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg dies (b. 1647).
• 1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
• 1683 - Etienne Fourmont was born (d. 1745). French orientalist.
• 1686 - William Coventry dies. English statesman.
• 1703 - Maria Leszczyńska was born (d. 1768). Queen of Louis XV of France.
• 1707 - John Mill dies. English theologian.
• 1713 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada.
• 1716 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley was born (d. 1789). English politician.
• 1724 - Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople.
• 1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer dies (b. 1672). Swiss scholar.
• 1750 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu was born (d. 26 Nov 1801). French geologist and mineralogist after whom the mineral dolomite was named.
• 1757 - Battle of Plassey - 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj-ud-Dawlah at Plassey.
• 1758 - Seven Years War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
• 1760 - Seven Years War: Battle of Landshut - Austria beats Prussia.
• 1763 - Josephine de Beauharnais was born (d. 1814). Empress of France (1804-14).
• 1770 - Mark Akenside dies (b. 1721). English poet and physician.
• 1775 - Étienne-Louis Malus was born (d. 23 Feb 1812). French physicist who discovered that light, when reflected, becomes partially plane polarized; i.e., its rays vibrate in the same plane.
• 1775 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz dies (b. 1692). German adventurer and writer.
• 1779 - Ras Mikael Sehul dies (b. c. 1691). Warlord of Ethiopia.
• 1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township.
• 1794 - Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
• 1799 - John Milton Bernhisel was born (d. 1881). Mormon Physician and Representative to Congress.
• 1799 - Jan Antoon Garemijn dies (b. 1712). Flemish Rococo painter.
• 1800 - Karol Marcinkowski was born (d. 1846). Polish physician and social activist.
• 1806 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson dies (b. 1723). French naturalist.
• 1810 - John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
• 1811 - Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida dies in Lisbon (b. 10 Sep 1740). Portugal's leading satirical poet of the 18th century. Ver também em português Nicolau Tolentino.
• 1812 - War of 1812: Great Britain had revoked the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
• 1824 - Carl Reinecke was born (d. 1910). German musician and composer.
• 1828 - O rei Miguel I de Portugal a sua sobrinha, a rainha Maria II de Portugal, dando início às Guerras Liberais de 1828. Reunião dos três estados do reino que aclamam o infante D. Miguel como rei absoluto.
• 1832 - James Hall dies (b. 1761). Scottish geologist.
• 1836 - James Mill dies (b. 1773). Scotish philosopher.
• 1848 - Adolphe Sax was awarded a patent for the saxophone.
• 1856 - Ivan Kireevsky dies (b. 1806). Russian literary critic and philosopher.
• 1858 - Six-year-old Edgardo Mortara is seized by Papal authorities.
• 1860 - The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
• 1860 - Sir (Walter) Baldwin Spencer was born (d. 14 Jul 1929). English biologist and anthropologist, the first trained and experienced scientist to enter the field of Australian anthropology.
• 1865 - American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
• 1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for Type-Writer.
• 1881 - Matthias Jakob Schleiden dies (b. 5 Apr 1804). German botanist who first formulated the theory that plants are composed of cells.
• 1884 - José Martins Fontes was born (d. 25 Jun 1937). Brazilian poet.
• 1884 - Cyclone Taylor was born (d. 1979). Canadian professional ice hockey player.
• 1887 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
• 1887 - Ernst Rowohlt was born (d. 1960). Publisher.
• 1888 - Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.
• 1888 - Bronson M. Cutting was born (d. 1935). American politician.
• 1889 - Anna Akhmatova was born (d. 1966). Russian poet.
• 1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber dies (b 1804). German physicist.
• 1893 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone dies (b. 1817). British-born South African statesman.
• 1894 - The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• 1894 - Alfred Charles Kinsey was born (d. 25 Aug 1956). Entomologist, sexologist. (The Sexual Behavior of the Human Male).
• 1894 - Edward VIII of the United Kingdom was born (d. 1972). Duke of Windsor.
• 1901 - Otto Heckmann was born (d. 13 May 1983). German astronomer noted for measuring stellar positions and his studies of relativity and cosmology.
• 1902 - Dr. Howard T. Engstrom was born (d. 9 Mar 1962). American computer designer who promoted the first commercially available digital computer, the Univac.
• 1902 - Mathias Wieman was born (d. 1969). German actor.
• 1903 - Paul Joseph James Martin was born (d. 1992). Canadian politician.
• 1904 - Carleton (Stevens) Coon was born (d. 6 Jun 1981). American anthropologist who made notable contributions to cultural and physical anthropology and archaeology, with controversial studies of the origins and contemporary variations of human racial types.
• 1905 - Jack Pickersgill was born (d. 1997). Canadian politician.
• 1905 - Mary Livingstone was born (d. 1983). American actress and wife of Jack Benny.
• 1906 - Wolfgang Koeppen was born (d. 1996). Author.
• 1907 - James Meade was born (d. 1995). English economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1909 - David Lewis was born (d. 1981). Canadian lawyer and politician.
• 1910 - Milt Hinton was born (d. 2000). American jazz bassist.
• 1910 - Jean Anouilh was born (d. 1987). French dramatist.
• 1910 - Gordon B. Hinckley was born. President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1912 - Alan Turing was born (d. 1954). Mathematician, founder of computer science .
• 1914 - Taking of Zacatecas by Francisco Villa from Victoriano Huerta.
• 1914 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
• 1915 - First wholesale slaughter of Armenian men in Harput (Kharpert), Turkey.
• 1915 - João Batista Vilanova Artigas was born (d. 1985). Brazilian architect.
• 1916 - Len Hutton was born (d. 1990). English cricketer.
• 1916 - Hermann Gmeiner was born (d. 1986). Austrian philanthropist.
• 1916 - Irene Worth was born (d. 2002). American actress.
• 1917 - In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
• 1919 - Defeat of German forces at Cesis in northern Latvia during Estonian Liberation War, now celebrated annually as Estonian Victory Day.
• 1919 - Muhammad Boudiaf was born (d. 1992). Algerian political leader.
• 1921 - O Diário de Notícias de Lisboa lança o primeiro concurso de beleza em Portugal com o título de Rainha de Beleza.
• 1922 - Hal Laycoe was born (d. 1998). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1925 - Miriam Karlin was born. English actress.
• 1926 - The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
• 1926 - Viktor Vasnetsov dies (b. 1848). Russian painter.
• 1927 - Bob Fosse was born (d. 1897). American choreographer and director (Cabaret).
• 1928 - Armando Cortez was born (d. 2002). Portuguese actor.
• 1929 - June Carter Cash was born (d. 2003). American singer.
• 1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
• 1935 - Maurice Ferre was born. Puerto Rican mayor of Miami.
• 1936 - Costas Simitis was born. Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1937 - Martti Ahtisaari was born. President of Finland.
• 1937 - Niki Sullivan was born. American guitarist (The Crickets).
• 1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• 1938 - Marineland opens near St. Augustine, Florida.
• 1940 - World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
• 1940 - A Exposição do Mundo Português é inaugurada em Lisboa, na Praça do Império.
• 1940 - Adam Faith was born (d. 2003). English singer and actor.
• 1940 - Lord Irvine of Lairg was born. Scottish Lord Chancellor.
• 1940 - Wilma Rudolph was born (d. 1994). American runner. At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, she became the first American to win three gold medals.
• 1940 - Sérgio Reis was born. Brazilian musician.
• 1940 - Stuart Sutcliffe was born (d. 1962). English musician who was the first bassist with The Beatles.
• 1941 - The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence (June independence) of Lithuania from Soviet Union; it lived only briefly however as nazis occupied Lithuania few weeks later.
• 1941 - Richard M. Richie Roberts was born. Former Marine and New Jersey Police Detective, Criminal Defense Attorney.
• 1941 - Robert Hunter was born. American lyricist and poet (The Grateful Dead).
• 1942 - World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a trainload of Jews from Paris.
• 1942 - World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands in Wales.
• 1943 - World War II: The British destroyers Eclipse and Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser Newfoundland.
• 1943 - James Levine was born. American conductor.
• 1943 - Vint Cerf was born. American internet pionner, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols.
• 1944 - Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen.
• 1945 - The Imperial Japanese armed forces ended organized resistance to the U.S. armed forces in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island of Okinawa.
• 1945 - John Garang was born. Leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) and former Vice-President of Sudan under Omar al-Bashir.
• 1945 - Kjell Albin Abrahamson was born. Swedish journalist and writer.
• 1945 - Simon Lake dies (b. 4 Sep 1866). U.S. inventor who built the "Argonaut," the first submarine to operate extensively in the open sea.
• 1946 - Ted Shackleford was born. American actor.
• 1946 - The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
• 1947 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
• 1947 - Bryan Brown was born. Australian actor.
• 1948 - Myles Goodwyn was born. Canadian guitarist and vocalist (April Wine).
• 1948 - Clarence Thomas was born. United States Supreme Court Justice.
• 1948 - Darhyl S. Ramsey was born. American author and professor of music education.
• 1949 - Gordon Bray was born. Australian sports broadcaster.
• 1950 - Douglas C. Lord was born. Canadian businessman.
• 1950 - Orani João Tempesta was born. Brazilian catholic bishop.
• 1950 - Swiss parliament refused voting rights for women.
• 1951 - British diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, two soviet spies, flee to the USSR.
• 1951 - Michèle Mouton was born. French race car driver.
• 1955 - In the Strahov Stadium in Prague the 1st all-national Spartakiáda begins.
• 1955 - Glenn Danzig was born. American musician (The Misfits and Danzig).
• 1955 - Jean Tigana was born. French footballer.
• 1955 - Jordan was born. British actress and model.
• 1955 - Pierre Corbeil was born. Quebec politician.
• 1956 - Gamal Abde l Nasser elected president of Egypt.
• 1956 - Randy Jackson was born. American music producer, judge on American Idol.
• 1956 - Reinhold Glière dies (b. 1875). Russian composer.
• 1957 - Frances McDormand was born. American actress.
• 1958 - The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
• 1958 - A fire at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois kills 92 children and three nuns.
• 1958 - Cândido de Oliveira dies in Stocholm (b. 24 Sep 1896). Portuguese sportive journalist (who was one of the founders of A BOLA) and football coach (National Team: 1926-1929; 1935-1945; 1952).
• 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 resumed a scientific career).
• 1959 - A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
• 1959 - Boris Vian dies (b. 1920). French writer and musician.
• 1960 - Japan signs security treaty with the U.S.
• 1960 - The Food and Drug Administration approved Enovid by GD Searle, the first oral contraceptive.
• 1960 - Donald Harrison was born. American musician.
• 1960 - Tatsuya Uemura was born. Japanese musician and programmer.
• 1961 - Cold War: The Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.
• 1961 - Zoran Janjetov was born. Serbian comic artist.
• 1962 - Chuck Billy was born. American singer.
• 1962 - Kari Takko was born. Finnish ice hockey player.
• 1962 - Kevin Yagher was born. TV/film special effects technician.
• 1963 - Colin Montgomerie was born. Scottish golfer.
• 1963 - Steve Shelley was born. American musician (Crucifucks and Sonic Youth).
• 1963 - Colin Montgomerie was born. Scottish golfer.
• 1964 - Joss Whedon was born. American producer, director, screenwriter.
• 1964 - Yun Lou was born. Chinese gymnast.
• 1965 - Paul Arthurs was born. British guitarist (Oasis).
• 1966 - Chico DeBarge was born. American musician (DeBarge).
• 1966 - Richie Ren was born. Taiwanese musician.
• 1967 - Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
• 1967 - Mohawk Airlines Flight 40 crashes due to an incorrectly installed valve, killing all 34 on board.
• 1967 - Paul King was born. New Zealand politician.
• 1967 - Helen Geake was born. British archaeologist.
• 1968 - 74 are killed and 150 injured in a soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
• 1969 - Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren.
• 1969 - Joe Frazier KOs Jerry Quarry in 8 for heavyweight boxing title.
• 1969 - Fernanda Ribeiro was born in Penafiel. Portuguese athlet ( Olympics: 1996 Gold 10000m, 2000 bronze 10000m. Worlds: 1995 Gold 10000m, silver 5000m, 1997 silver 10000m, bronze 5000m. European: 1994 Gold 10000m, 1998 silver 10000m).
• 1969 - Martin Klebba was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Volmari Iso-Hollo dies (b. 1907). Finnish athlete.
• 1970 - Martin Deschamps was born. Quebec rock singer.
• 1970 - Robert Brooks was born. Green Bay Packers Wide Receiver.
• 1970 - Yann Tiersen was born. French musician.
• 1970 - Roscoe Turner dies (b. 1895). American aviator and racer.
• 1971 - Felix Potvin was born. Canadian professional hockey goaltender
• 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.
• 1972 - 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
• 1972 - Ron Corning was born. American television anchor.
• 1972 - Selma Blair was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Zinedine Zidane was born. French football player.
• 1973 - A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
• 1973 - Marie N was born. Latvian singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner.
• 1973 - The Pope opens the vatican gallery of modern art.
• 1974 - Joel Edgerton was born. Australian actor.
• 1975 - K.T. Tunstall was born. Scottish singer and songwriter.
• 1975 - Kevin Dyson was born. American football player.
• 1975 – Mik Kersten was born. Canadian computer scientist.
• 1975 – Mike James was born. American basketball player.
• 1976 - Brandon Stokley was born. American football player.
• 1976 – Emmanuelle Vaugier was born. Canadian actress.
• 1976 - Joe Becker was born. American musician.
• 1976 - Patrick Monahan was born. British comedian.
• 1976 - Patrick Vieira was born. French footballer.
• 1976 - Wade Barrett was born. American soccer player.
• 1977 - Hayden Foxe was born. Australian footballer.
• 1977 - Jason Mraz was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1977 - Miguel Ángel Angulo was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1978 - Memphis Bleek was born. American rapper.
• 1978 - Matt Light was born. American football player.
• 1978 - Frédéric Leclercq was born. French bassist (DragonForce).
• 1979 - Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line during 1980.
• 1979 - LaDainian Tomlinson was born. American football player.
• 1980 - Andy Orr was born. Irish Popstar.
• 1980 - Becky Cloonan was born. American comic book artist.
• 1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan was born. Guyanese cricketer.
• 1980 - Clyfford Still dies (b. 1904). American painter.
• 1980 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri dies (b. 1894). Fourth President of India.
• 1980 - West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium).
• 1981 - Zarah Leander dies (b. 1907). Swedish actress and singer.
• 1982 - Vincent Chin dies (b. 1955). Chinese-American hate crime victim.
• 1983 - Brooks Laich was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1983 - Jason Berrent was born. American performer.
• 1984 - Dave Walsh was born. American electronic sports player.
• 1984 - Duffy was born. Welsh singer.
• 1984 - James Thomas, Jr. was born. Winner of Survivor: Tocantins.
• 1985 - A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland; killing all 329 people aboard.
• 1988 - James Hansen testifies to U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it was 99% probable that global warming had begun.
• 1988 – Chellsie Memmel was born. American gymnast.
• 1988 - Isabella Leong Lok-Sze was born. Hong Kong-based Macau born singer, actress and model.
• 1988 - Alma Flora dies. Portuguese actress.
• 1989 - The movie Batman is released in the United States.
• 1989 - Werner Best dies (b. 1903). German jurist and nazi leader.
• 1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Genesis in North America.
• 1991 - The flagship Sega video game Sonic the Hedgehog was released in the United States.
• 1992 - Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering on April 2.
• 1992 - Yitzhak Rabin wins the Israeli parlamentary elections.
• 1992 - Bridget Sloan was born. American gymnast.
• 1992 - Eric Andolsek dies (b. 1966). American football player.
• 1993 - Lorena Bobbitt slices off her husband's penis with a kitchen knife, making international news out of their marital drama.
• 1993 - Zdenek Kopal dies (b. 4 Apr 1914). Czech-born astronomer who directed an international project, financed by the U.S. Air Force, to photograph and map the entire surface of the Moon by using the refracting telescope at the Pic du Midi Observatory in southern France.
• 1994 - Reintegrada a África do Sul na ONU.
• 1995 - Anatoly Tarasov dies (b. 1918). Russian ice hockey coach.
• 1995 - Jonas Salk dies (b. 28 Oct 1914). American Jewish physician and medical researcher, born in New York City, who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for poliomyelitis.
• 1996 - Charlie Jones was born. British actor.
• 1996 - Andreas Papandreou dies (b. 1919). Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1997 - Dr. Betty Shabazz dies (b. 1936). Wife of Malcolm X.
• 1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan dies (b. 1911). Irish actress.
• 1998 - Leandro dies. Brazilian singer (Leandro and Leonardo).
• 1999 - Buster Merryfield dies (b. 1920). British actor.
• 2000 - Peter Dubovský dies (b. 1972). Slovak football player.
• 2001 - The video game Sonic Adventure 2 was released cellebrating the 10th anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog.
• 2001 - Yvonne Dionne dies (b. 1934). One of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets.
• 2002 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar dies (b. 1975). Panamanian boxer.
• 2003 - MaynardJackson dies (b. 1938). Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2003 - Vasil Bykau dies (b. 1924). Belarusian writer.
• 2005 - The IWW Centennial in Chicago,Illinois.
• 2005 - Manolis Anagnostakis dies (b. 1925). Greek poet.
• 2005 - Shana Alexander dies (b. 1926). American columnist.
• 2006 - Aaron Spelling dies (b. 1923). American television producer.
• 2006 - Luke Graham dies (b. 1940). Wrestler, and 1-half of first-ever Tag Team Champions.
• 2006 - Harriet dies (b. 1830). A 175 year old Galápagos tortoise.
• 2007 - Rod Beck dies (b. 1968). American baseball player.
• United Nations Public Service Day.
• Jāņi (Līgo) - Latvia.
• Midsummer's Eve, Christianized the feast of Saint John the Baptist, is celebrated in much of Northern Europe and the British Islands / Noite de S. João em vários concelhos de Portugal de que se destacam Porto e Braga.
• Father's Day - Poland, Nicaragua and Uganda.
• Grand Duke's Official Birthday - Luxembourg.
• Victory Day - Estonia.