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History . . .
June 23 . . .
1668, Giambattista Vico, philosopher of history
1888, Anna Akhmatova, poet
1894, Alfred Kinsey, sex researcher
1912, Alan Turing, mathematician
1927, Bob Fosse, choreographer and director
1940, Wilma Glodean Rudolph, American track-and-field athlete, who was the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals at a single Olympic Games. Born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee, Rudolph was educated at Tennessee State University. Although she contracted double pneumonia, polio, and scarlet fever at the age of 4 and could not walk normally until the age of 11, she became an outstanding basketball player in high school and competed in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, winning a bronze medal in the 4 x 100-meter relay race. At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, she won the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and ran the anchor (last) leg on the winning 4 x 100-meter relay team. In 1961 she won the James E. Sullivan Memorial Award, given annually by the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States (AAU) to the nation's top amateur athlete. Rudolph retired from competitive sports that same year and later became a teacher and coach.
1943, James Levine, conductor and pianist
1611, The mutinous crew of English explorer Henry Hudson, after a harsh winter with their ship frozen in Hudson Bay, puts Hudson and eight others adrift in a small boat. They are never seen again.
1845, The Congress of the Republic of Texas agrees to join the United States, following the wishes of the republic's leading figure, Sam Houston.
1848, During a year of revolution throughout Europe, French working-class radicals clash with government forces in the first of the June Days, in which thousands of workmen are killed.
1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his "Type-Writer."
1888, abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, effectively making him the first black candidate nominated for U.S. president. (The nomination went to Benjamin Harrison.)
1892, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated former President Cleveland on the first ballot.
1917: After Boston pitcher Babe Ruth is ejected for arguing the base on balls given to the first game's first batter, reliever Ernie Shore retires 27 straight men and is credited with a perfect game.
1931, aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1938, the Civil Aeronautics Authority was established.
1947, Despite the veto of President Harry Truman, the U.S. Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Act, which significantly restricts the ability of labor unions to organize.
1961, The Antarctic Treaty (signed December 1, 1959) comes into effect. It pledges the 12 signatory nations to nonpolitical, scientific investigation of the continent and bars any military activity.
1967, President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin held the first of two meetings in Glassboro, N.J.
1969, Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief U.S. justice by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren.
1985, all 329 people aboard an Air- India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland, apparently because of a bomb.
1994, The Nigerian military regime led by Sani Abacha arrests Moshood Abiola after he declares himself president of the country. Abiola was the apparent winner of the suspended presidential election in 1993.
Missing in Action
1966 BELKNAP HARRY JOHN JONAS RIDGE NC
1966 NYMAN LAWRENCE F. ABERDEEN WA
1968 BOOTH JAMES E. ROSEVILLE CA "DEAD, VIETNAM COURIER"
1968 CASEY DONALD F. CHATTANOOGA TN "DEAD, VIETNAM COURIER"
1969 CONDIT WILLIAM H. JR. WORTHINGTON OH REMAINS ID'D 06/24/98
1969 REED TERRY MICHAEL RANDOLPH AFB TX REMAINS ID'D 06/24/98
1969 SAGE LELAND C. WAUKEGAN IL
1970 PHILLIPS ROBERT P. SYLVANIA OH
1970 PEDERSON JOE P. SEASIDE CA
1970 ROZO JAMES M. BUFFALO NY
June 22 . . .
1903, Carl Hubbell, baseball pitcher
1906, Billy Wilder, American motion-picture director, writer, and producer, whose best films—usually comedies—employ his distinctive dialogue to elucidate a darkly satirical view of human nature. Born Samuel Wilder in Vienna, Austria, he later moved to Berlin, Germany, where he worked first as a journalist and then as a screenwriter. Wilder left Germany after Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, and in 1934 he immigrated to the United States, later becoming a U.S. citizen. Beginning in 1937, Wilder found his initial niche in Hollywood, California, as a screenwriter. From 1938 he teamed with American screenwriter Charles Brackett, with whom he was to carry on a long and successful collaboration until 1950. Together they wrote such memorably sophisticated screenplays as those for Midnight (1939), Ninotchka (1939), Arise, My Love (1940), Hold Back the Dawn (1941), and Ball of Fire (1941). Although the screenplays were well received, Wilder was increasingly dissatisfied with the way they were directed, so, following in the footsteps of American director Preston Sturges (who had also begun as a writer), he succeeded in persuading the studio to let him direct his own scripts.
1909, Katherine Dunham, dancer and choreographer
1933, Dianne Feinstein, U.S. senator
1947, Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian president
1949, Meryl Streep, actor
1611, English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
1870, Congress created the Department of Justice.
1938: Two years after Adolf Hitler took German boxer Max Schmeling's defeat of American Joe Louis as a sign of Nazi superiority, Louis defeats Schmeling in their rematch by knocking him out in the first round.
1938, heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in the first round of their rematch at Yankee Stadium.
1940, during World War II, Adolf Hitler gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.
1941: Breaking the nonaggression pact signed by the two countries in 1939, Germany invades the Soviet Union, sending over 3 million troops across the border.
1944, President Roosevelt signed the Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the "GI Bill of Rights," which provides tuition, low-interest mortgages, and other benefits to veterans.
1945, the World War II battle for Okinawa officially ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 81-day campaign.
1970, President Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
1977: Former attorney general John Mitchell begins serving his sentence for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up, becoming the first U.S. attorney general to go to prison.
1978: The U.S. astronomer James W. Christy discovers that the planet Pluto has a moon more than half its diameter, which he names Charon.
Missing in Action
1966 SMITH WARREN P. JR. PASADENA TX
1967 PIRIE JAMES GLENN TUSCALOOSA AL 02/18/73 RELEASED BY DRV DECEASED 05/09/98
1969 ENGELHARD ERIC CARL BELLBROOK OH 04/01/74 REMAINS RECOVERED
1969 ROBERSON JOHN W. MALAKOFF TX
1969 SEAGROVES MICHAEL ANTHONY CHICAGO IL 04/01/74 REMAINS RECOVERED
1970 EARLE JOHN S. WESTFIELD MA
1970 GUMBERT ROBERT W. JR. NEW RICHMOND OH
1971 STROHLEIN MADISON A. PHILADELPHIA PA INDICATIONS OF SHOOTOUT WITH NVA
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