June 23
Today is the 174th day of 2017, there are 191 days left in the year.
1314 - During the First War of Scottish Independence, the two-day Battle of Bannockburn, resulting in victory for the forces of Robert the Bruce over the army of King Edward II, began near Stirling.
1537 - Spanish explorer Pedro de Mendoza, the founder of Buenos Aires, died aboard his ship while heading back to Spain.
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer".
1892 - The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.
1894 - Edward VIII, the British monarch who abdicated in 1936 in order to marry American Wallis Simpson, was born.
1931 - Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1947 - The Senate overrode President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.
1967 - The U.S. Senate voted 92-5 to censure Democrat Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut for diverting campaign money to his personal use.
1969 - Warren Burger was sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1972 - President 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 - All 329 people aboard an Air India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland because of a bomb authorities believe was planted by Sikh separatists.
1992 - Mobster John Gotti was sentenced to life in prison.
1993 - Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Virginia, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
1995 - Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first polio vaccine, died.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan's School of Law affirmative action policy.
2016 - Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling Prime Minister David Cameron, who had led the campaign to keep Britain in the EU.
Birthdays
22 - Danna Paola (singer)
23 - Connor Jessup (actor)
24 - Nadine Mulkerrin (actress)
25 - Louisa Connolly-Burnham (actress)
28 - Lauren Bennett (singer)
32 - Blake Harrison (actor)
33 - Crystal Leigh (model)
33 - Duffy (singer)
37 - Melissa Rauch (actress)
38 - LaDainian Tomlinson (football player)
40 - Jason Mraz (singer)
45 - Selma Blair (actress)
61 - Randy Jackson (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - June 23
1915 - New York Yankees get record 16 walks and three wild pitches, beating Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Bruno Hass, 15-0.
1950 - New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers hit a combined record 11 home runs, Detroit Tigers win 10-9.
1963 - New York Mets' Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th home run, he circles bases backwards.
1967 - Jim Ryun sets mile record of 3:51.1 (Bakersfield, California).
1972 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Higher Education Act of 1972. Title IX of this congressional act barred sex bias in athletics and other activities at colleges receiving federal assistance.
1981 - Pawtucket defeats Rochester 3-2 in a minor league baseball game that went 33 innings.
1988 - New York Yankees' manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager.
1996 - Michael Johnson broke the world record for the men's 200 meter race. He ran it in 19.66 seconds.
2003 - Barry Bonds becomes the first major league baseball player to hit 500 homers and steal 500 bases in his career
2005 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Detroit Pistons in seven games to win the NBA championship.
2008 - Seattle Mariners' pitcher Felix Hernandez become the first American League pitcher to hit a grand slam home run in 37 years.
2010 - The first-round tennis contest between American John Isner and Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon ends for the day tied at 59-59 (ten hours play), becoming the longest in tennis history. The match had already been suspended on June 22 after 3 hours of play.
2012 - Ashton Eaton broke the world record in the decathlon, finishing with 9,039 points at the U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon. (Eaton later surpassed his own record with 9,045 points at the 2015 Beijing world championships.)
Today is the 174th day of 2017, there are 191 days left in the year.
1314 - During the First War of Scottish Independence, the two-day Battle of Bannockburn, resulting in victory for the forces of Robert the Bruce over the army of King Edward II, began near Stirling.
1537 - Spanish explorer Pedro de Mendoza, the founder of Buenos Aires, died aboard his ship while heading back to Spain.
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer".
1892 - The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.
1894 - Edward VIII, the British monarch who abdicated in 1936 in order to marry American Wallis Simpson, was born.
1931 - Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1947 - The Senate overrode President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.
1967 - The U.S. Senate voted 92-5 to censure Democrat Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut for diverting campaign money to his personal use.
1969 - Warren Burger was sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1972 - President 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 - All 329 people aboard an Air India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland because of a bomb authorities believe was planted by Sikh separatists.
1992 - Mobster John Gotti was sentenced to life in prison.
1993 - Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Virginia, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
1995 - Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first polio vaccine, died.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan's School of Law affirmative action policy.
2016 - Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling Prime Minister David Cameron, who had led the campaign to keep Britain in the EU.
Birthdays
22 - Danna Paola (singer)
23 - Connor Jessup (actor)
24 - Nadine Mulkerrin (actress)
25 - Louisa Connolly-Burnham (actress)
28 - Lauren Bennett (singer)
32 - Blake Harrison (actor)
33 - Crystal Leigh (model)
33 - Duffy (singer)
37 - Melissa Rauch (actress)
38 - LaDainian Tomlinson (football player)
40 - Jason Mraz (singer)
45 - Selma Blair (actress)
61 - Randy Jackson (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - June 23
1915 - New York Yankees get record 16 walks and three wild pitches, beating Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Bruno Hass, 15-0.
1950 - New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers hit a combined record 11 home runs, Detroit Tigers win 10-9.
1963 - New York Mets' Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th home run, he circles bases backwards.
1967 - Jim Ryun sets mile record of 3:51.1 (Bakersfield, California).
1972 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Higher Education Act of 1972. Title IX of this congressional act barred sex bias in athletics and other activities at colleges receiving federal assistance.
1981 - Pawtucket defeats Rochester 3-2 in a minor league baseball game that went 33 innings.
1988 - New York Yankees' manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager.
1996 - Michael Johnson broke the world record for the men's 200 meter race. He ran it in 19.66 seconds.
2003 - Barry Bonds becomes the first major league baseball player to hit 500 homers and steal 500 bases in his career
2005 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Detroit Pistons in seven games to win the NBA championship.
2008 - Seattle Mariners' pitcher Felix Hernandez become the first American League pitcher to hit a grand slam home run in 37 years.
2010 - The first-round tennis contest between American John Isner and Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon ends for the day tied at 59-59 (ten hours play), becoming the longest in tennis history. The match had already been suspended on June 22 after 3 hours of play.
2012 - Ashton Eaton broke the world record in the decathlon, finishing with 9,039 points at the U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon. (Eaton later surpassed his own record with 9,045 points at the 2015 Beijing world championships.)
