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 175^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 10, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 477,528 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 ‘hectaheptacontapentagon’ day.

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 220 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 4,202 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 23 Historical Events

• 1532 –
  Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
• 1758 –
  Seven Years’ War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
• 1810 –
  John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
• 1940 –
  World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
• 1959 –
  A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
• 1959 –
  Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
• 1967 –
  Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
• 1972 –
  Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
• 1972 –
  Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
• 1985 –
  A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.

Who were born on June 23?

• 1703 –
  Queen Marie Leszczyńska, Polish-born wife of Louis XV of France (d. 1768)
• 1894 –
  Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
• 1922 –
  Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• 1972 –
  Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
• 1974 –
  Mark Hendrickson, American baseball player
• 1975 –
  Jeffrey Carlson, American actor
• 1975 –
  Kevin Dyson, American football player
• 1976 –
  Patrick Monahan, British comedian
• 1983 –
  Jason Berrent, American actor and performer
• 1988 –
  Isabella Leong, Macau-born Hong Kong singer, actress and model

Who died on June 23?

• 1555 –
  Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
• 1582 –
  Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
• 1806 –
  Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)
• 1949 –
  Aristidis Stergiadis, Greek governor-general of Smyrna, (b. 1861)
• 1956 –
  Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
• 1996 –
  Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (b. 1919)
• 2002 –
  Pedro ‘El Rockero’Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
• 2008 –
  Judith Holzmeister, Austrian actress (b. 1920)
• 2009 –
  John Callaway, American journalist (b. 1936)
• 2009 –
  Manuel Saval, Mexican actor (b. 1956)