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.
1836 The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.
1848 A bloody insurrection of workers erupts in Paris.
1865 Confederate General Stand Watie, who was also a Cherokee chief, surrendered the last sizable Confederate army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful of its kind
1894 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is founded
1902 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renew the Triple Alliance for a 12-year duration.
1934 Italy gains the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.
1944 In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploiesti, Romania.
1947 The Senate overrode President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1960 1st contraceptive pill is made available for purchase in the U.S.
1961 The Antarctic Treaty comes into force
1967 US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds
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.
1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
1986 Tip O’Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
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
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
