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What are the important events that happened on June 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 23: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 23 is the 174th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 10, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 486,288 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontatetragon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 239 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,567 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 23 Historical Events
- 1760 –Seven Years’ War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.
- 1810 –John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
- 1865 –American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
- 1887 –The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation’s first national park, Banff National Park.
- 1894 –The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
Who were born on June 23?
- 47 BC –Ptolemy Caesarion of Egypt; son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra (d. 30 BC)
- 1763 –Joséphine de Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon I Bonaparte (d. 1814)
- 1902 –Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969)
- 1941 –Roger McDonald, Australian writer
- 1976 –Patrick Vieira, French footballer
Who died on June 23?
- 1677 –Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
- 1956 –Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
- 1992 –Eric Andolsek, American football player (b. 1966)
- 2008 –Marian Glinka, Polish actor (b. 1943)
- 2009 –Ed McMahon, American television personality (b. 1923)
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