Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on June 23 throughout history.
In June 2018, a junior soccer team became trapped in Tham Luang Nang Non, a cave system in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Twelve members of the team, aged 11 to 16, and t…
Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day r
On 23 June 2017, a series of terrorist attacks took place in Pakistan resulting in 96 dead and over 200 wounded. They included a suicide bombing in Quetta targeting policemen, fol…
A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continent…
The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%
Syria's chemical weapons program began in the 1970s with weapons and training from Egypt and the Soviet Union, with production of chemical weapons in Syria beginning in the mid-19…
The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction
Nikolas Wallenda is an American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author. He is known for his high-wire performances without a safety net. He holds 11 Guinness …
Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope
Nanga Parbat , known as Diamer in Shina, is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth with its summit at 8,126 m (26,660 ft) above sea level. Lying immediately southeast of the northern…
Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten cl
Ashton James Eaton is a retired American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, who previously held the world record in the decathlon and indoor heptathlon event. Eaton was the…
Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials
Reddit is an American proprietary social news aggregation and forum social media platform. Registered users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and video…
American social news and discussion site Reddit is founded in Medford, Massachusetts by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian
The 2001 southern Peru earthquake occurred at 20:33:15 UTC on June 23 with a moment magnitude of 8.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). The quake affected the Peru…
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research i…
NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Stat
Sonic the Hedgehog is a 1991 platform game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. It was released in PAL regions on June 21, North America two days later on June 23…
Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise
The 1985 Narita International Airport bombing was the attempted terrorist bombing of Air India Flight 301, which took place on June 23, 1985. A bomb hidden in a suitcase transitin…
A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo, killing two and injuring four
Kingston upon Hull, or simply shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence …
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
The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. On June 17, 1972, operatives asso…
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Title IX is a landmark federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any sch…
Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational p
Warren Earl Burger was an American attorney who served as the 15th chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986.
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The software industry includes businesses for development, maintenance and publication of software that are using different business models, mainly either "license/maintenance bas…
IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating
The Tragedy of Gate 12 was a fatal human stampede that occurred on June 23, 1968, at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Over 70 people, all of them Boca Juniors f…
Seventy-four people were killed and 150 other injured in a stampede at a football match between Boca Juniors and Club At
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's…
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The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only con…
The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the co