Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 23

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 * 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In an action off Trapani, Sicily, a Venetian fleet captured all 27 opposing Genoese vessels.
 * 1280 – Reconquista: Troops of the Emirate of Granada defeated those of the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of León in the Battle of Moclín.
 * 1797 – War of the First Coalition: Napoleon signed the Armistice of Bologna, agreeing a ceasefire between France and the Papal States.
 * 1865 – Stand Watie became the last Confederate general of the American Civil War to surrender to Union forces.
 * 1887 – The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park in Alberta as the country's first national park.
 * 1926 – The College Board administered the first SAT, a major standardized test for university and college admissions in the United States.
 * 1946 – Canada's largest recorded onshore earthquake struck Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
 * 1956 – In a nationwide referendum, Gamal Abdel Nasser (pictured) was elected President of Egypt, a post he held until his death in 1970.
 * 1972 – President Richard Nixon signed Title IX (co-author Patsy Mink pictured) into law as part of the Education Amendments, prohibiting gender discrimination in any educational program receiving U.S. federal funds.
 * 1973 – The 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.
 * 1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin died after being beaten into a coma in Highland Park, Michigan, U.S., by two automotive workers who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
 * 1985 – A bomb attributed to the Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa destroyed Air India Flight 182 above the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 329 on board.
 * 1991 – The first installment of the video-game series Sonic the Hedgehog was released in North America.
 * 1992 – Croatian War of Independence: The Battle of the Miljevci Plateau ended after a failed counterattack by forces of the Republic of Serbian Krajina against the Croatian Army who had captured the plateau.
 * 2016 – Citizens of the United Kingdom voted in favour of leaving the European Union.
 * Born/died this day: | Li Congyi and Consort Dowager Wang |d|947| Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke |d|1324| Richard W. Meade |b|1778| Cyclone Taylor|b|1884| Verena Holmes |b|1889| Len Hutton |b|1916| Bill Torrey|b|1934| Michèle Mouton |b|1951| Joss Whedon|b|1964| LaDainian Tomlinson |b|1979| Sanjay Gandhi |d|1980| Betty Shabazz |d|1997| Doug Ring|d|2003| Nguyễn Chánh Thi|d|2007|

June 23: Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg


 * 1594 – Anglo-Spanish War: During the Action of Faial, an English attempt to capture a Portuguese carrack, reputedly one of the richest ever to set sail from the Indies, caused it to explode with all the treasure lost.
 * 1894 – Led by French historian Pierre de Coubertin (pictured), an international congress at the Sorbonne in Paris formed the International Olympic Committee to revive the ancient Olympic Games.
 * 1944 – The Holocaust: After a closely supervised visit to Theresienstadt Ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Red Cross official Maurice Rossel reported that conditions there were "almost normal".
 * 2014 – Under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 2118, the last of Syria's declared chemical weapons were shipped out for destruction.