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Historical Events
on June 23rd
- Lead Story
- Teflon Don sentenced to life,1992
- American Revolution
- Commodore Parker prepares for a naval strike on Charleston,1776
- Automotive
- "Mercedes" registered as a brand name,1902
- Civil War
- Lee confers with his generals before the Seven Days' Battles,1862
- Cold War
- Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Aleksei Kosygin,1967
- Crime
- Even without the corpse, a murderer is uncovered,1934
- Disaster
- Tornadoes hit West Virginia and Pennsylvania,1944
- General Interest
- Nasser elected president,1956
- Klaus Fuchs released,1959
- Hollywood
- Batman released,1989
- Literary
- Michael Shaara, author of The Killer Angels, is born,1929
- Music
- Tiffany visits the mall on her way to stardom,1987
- Old West
- Frontiersman Martin Sweeny is murdered,1878
- Presidential
- Newspaper reveals Coolidge will be adopted into Sioux tribe,1927
- Nixon signs Higher Education Act,1972
- Haldeman encourages Nixon to ward off FBI,1973
- Sports
- Title IX enacted,1972
- Vietnam War
- Johnson announces new ambassador to South Vietnam,1964
- North Vietnamese encircle Ben Het,1969
- World War I
- First Battle of the Isonzo,1915
- World War II
- Hitler takes a tour of Paris,1940
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