History for June 23

History for June 23 - On-This-Day.com
Alan Turing 1912, Bob Fosse 1927, Wilma Rudolph 1940 


Clarence Thomas 1948 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Frances McDormand 1957 - Actress, Joss Whedon 1964 - Writer, director 


1836 - The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states. 


1860 - The U.S. Secret Service was created to arrest counterfeiters. 


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 received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer." 


1926 - The first lip reading tournament in America was held in Philadelphia, PA. 


1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. 


1947 - The U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. 


1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt. 



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.