23 June
Notable Births
Roger Martínez
b. 1994
Colombian footballer (born 1994)
Tim Anderson (baseball)
b. 1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Luiza Galiulina
b. 1992
Uzbekistani artistic gymnast (born 1992)
Nampalys Mendy
b. 1992
Senegalese footballer (born 1992)
Katie Armiger
b. 1991
Country music singer
Clévid Dikamona
b. 1990
Footballer (born 1990)
Vasek Pospisil
b. 1990
Canadian tennis player (born 1990)
Laura Ràfols
b. 1990
Spanish footballer (born 1990)
Lisa Carrington
b. 1989
New Zealand canoeist (born 1989)
Jordan Nolan
b. 1989
Canadian ice hockey player
Chet Faker
b. 1988
Australian electronic musician (born 1988)
Chellsie Memmel
b. 1988
American artistic gymnast (born 1988)
Christy Altomare
b. 1986
American actress and singer-songwriter
Marcel Reece
b. 1985
American football player and executive (born 1985)
Duffy (singer)
b. 1984
Welsh singer (born 1984)
Takeshi Matsuda
b. 1984
Japanese swimmer (born 1984)
Levern Spencer
b. 1984
Saint Lucian high jumper and Olympic athlete
Brooks Laich
b. 1983
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1983)
José Rojas (footballer, born 1983)
b. 1983
Chilean footballer
Paul Findley
b. 1921
American politician and writer (1921–2019)
Notable Deaths
Rebekah Del Rio
d. 2025
American singer-songwriter (1967–2025)
John McAfee
d. 2021
British and American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
Ralph Stanley
d. 2016
American bluegrass musician and singer (1927–2016)
Miguel Facussé Barjum
d. 2015
Honduran businessman (1924–2015)
Nirmala Joshi
d. 2015
Indian Religious sister and former Superior (1934–2015)
Dick Van Patten
d. 2015
American actor (1928–2015)
Bobby Bland
d. 2013
American blues and soul singer and musician (1930–2013)
Frank Kelso
d. 2013
American admiral (1933–2013)
Kurt Leichtweiss
d. 2013
German mathematician
Richard Matheson
d. 2013
American author and screenwriter (1926–2013)
Darryl Read
d. 2013
Musical artist (1951–2013)
Sharon Stouder
d. 2013
American swimmer (1948–2013)
James Durbin
d. 2012
British statistician and econometrician
Brigitte Engerer
d. 2012
French pianist (1952–2012)
Alan McDonald (Northern Ireland footballer)
d. 2012
Northern Irish footballer (1963–2012)
Frank Chee Willeto
d. 2012
American politician and Navajo code talker (1925–2012)
Walter J. Zable
d. 2012
American businessman and entrepreneur (1915–2012)
Peter Falk
d. 2011
American actor (1927–2011)
Dennis Marshall (footballer, born 1985)
d. 2011
Costa Rican footballer (1985–2011)
Albert Gleizes
d. 1953
French painter (1881–1953)
On This Day in History
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2018
Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.
Tham Luang cave rescue
2017
A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others.
June 2017 Pakistan attacks
2016
The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
United Kingdom
2014
The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
Syrian chemical weapons program
2013
Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
Nik Wallenda
2013
Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide.
Nanga Parbat
2012
Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
Ashton Eaton
2005
American social news and discussion site Reddit is founded in Medford, Massachusetts by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian.
2001
The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
2001 southern Peru earthquake
1994
NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
NASA
1991
Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise.
Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)
1985
A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo, killing two and injuring four. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
1985 Narita International Airport bombing
1973
A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
Kingston upon Hull
1972
Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
Watergate scandal
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.
Title IX
1969
Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Warren E. Burger
1969
IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
Software industry
1968
Seventy-four people were killed and 150 other injured in a stampede at a football match between Boca Juniors and Club Atlético River Plate in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Tragedy of Gate 12
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
1961
The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
Antarctic Treaty System