June 23 birthdays & history

Famous people born on June 23

• 1912Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist
• 1972Zinedine Zidane, French footballer and manager
• 1889Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet and author
• 1894Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom
• 1957Frances McDormand, American actress, winner of the Triple Crown of Acting
• 1668Giambattista Vico, Italian jurist, historian, and philosopher
• 1910Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter
• 1763Joséphine de Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon I
• 1936Richard Bach, American novelist and essayist
• 1976Patrick Vieira, French footballer and manager

What happened on June 23

• 1726On the First Sunday after Trinity, J. S. Bach led the first performance of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39, one of a few new cantatas written that year.
• 1810John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
• 1860The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
• 1868Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".
• 1887The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park in Alberta as the country's first national park.
• 1926The College Board administered the first Scholastic Aptitude Test, a major standardized test for university and college admissions in the United States.
• 1938The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• 1940Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• 1972President Richard Nixon signed Title IX into law as part of the Education Amendments, prohibiting gender discrimination in any educational program receiving U.S. federal funds.
• 1973The Los Angeles Dodgers started Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey, and Bill Russell in the infield, beginning a record eight-year run in Major League Baseball for four people designated as starters for those positions.
• 1991The first instalment of the video-game series Sonic the Hedgehog was released in North America.
• 2016Citizens of the United Kingdom voted in favour of leaving the European Union.

Also observed on June 23

• Father's Day (Nicaragua, Poland)
• Grand Duke's Official Birthday (Luxembourg)
• International Women in Engineering Day
• International Widows Day (international)
• Okinawa Memorial Day (Okinawa Prefecture)
• United Nations Public Service Day (International)