WHAT HAPPENED ON 23. JUNE
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American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army. (23. June 1865)

Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer." (23. June 1868)

The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park. (23. June 1887)

The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. (23. June 1894)

Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran. (23. June 1913)

Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta. (23. June 1914)

In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire. (23. June 1917)

Estonian War of Independence: the decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia. (23. June 1919)

The College Board administers the first SAT exam. (23. June 1926)

Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane. (23. June 1931)

The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States. (23. June 1938)

World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France. (23. June 1940)

The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later. (23. June 1941)

World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris. (23. June 1942)

World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. (23. June 1942)

World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland. (23. June 1943)

The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. (23. June 1946)

The National Democratic Front wins a landslide victory in the municipal elections in French India. (23. June 1946)

The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. (23. June 1947)

The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa. (23. June 1956)