TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 23
930 World’s oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi (anglicised as Althing or Althingi), established
1683 William Penn signs a friendship treaty with the Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1700 Russia gives up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.
1713 The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada
1860 US Secret Service created
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents the typewriter with a QWERTY keyboard
1902 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renew the Triple Alliance for a 12-year duration
1923 The growing membership of the Ku Klax Klan across the US is predicted to make them a political force to be recognized with 1000’s of new members joining every week in ceremonies across the US.
1934 Italy gains the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.
1947 The Senate overrode President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1961 The Antarctic Treaty comes into force. The treaty was the first arms control agreement signed during the Cold War.
1969 Warren Burger was sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1972 Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman discussed ways to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. Revelation of this conversation spurred on Nixon’s 1974 resignation.
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.
2016 Brexit referendum: United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union
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