History for June 23 - On-This-Day.com
Irvin Cobb 1876, Alfred Kinsey 1894, Alan Turing 1912
Wilma Rudolph 1940, Clarence Thomas 1948 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Frances McDormand 1957 - Actress
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."
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