Happy Donut Day, SP
On this Day ~ June 23rd
1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians
in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1757 Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
1760 Battle of Landshut, Silesia
1775 1st regatta held on Thames, England
1784 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
1810 John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon)
1848 Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris
1860 Congress establishes the Government Printing Office
1860 US Secret Service created
1865 At Fort Towson, Gen Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable army
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
1903 M Wolf discovers asteroid #512 Taurinensis
1915 Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0
1917 Molla Bjurstedt wins the US Lawn Tennis Assn title
Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he
throws him out & retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game
1918 Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0
1924 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1022 Olympiada
1925 Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
1927 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox
1930 Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8
1931 Wiley Post & Harold Catty took off for flight around world
1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
1938 Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium
1939 France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (the Hatay) to Turkey
1944 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
1944 Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen
1947 Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
1949 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
1950 Yanks & Tigers hit record 11 HRs, Tigers win 10-9
1951 British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR
1951 Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M
property-Kansas)
1954 122ø F (50ø C), Overton, Nevada (state record)
1955 Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
1957 S B Nicholson discovers asteroid #1647 Menelaus
1961 Phillies overcome 9-0, losing 11-2 they score 4 in 8th & 6 in 9th
1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m
1963 Julius Boros wins golf's US Open
1963 NY Mets Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards
1967 Jim Ryun sets mile record of 3 min, 51.1 sec (Bakersfield, CA)
1967 John Entwistle of the rock group Who weds Alison Wise
1967 LBJ & Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, NJ
1967 US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign
funds
1969 Joe Frazier beats Jerry Quarry for the heavyweight boxing title
1969 Warren E Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice
1970 Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary
1970 Rocker Chubby Checker arrest for marijuana pocession
1971 Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Cincinatti Reds, 4-0
1972 Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
1972 Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1972 Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
1973 Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
1974 Sandra Haynie wins the LPGA byh 2 strokes over JoAnne Carner
1975 Rocker Alice Cooper falls of stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs
1976 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
1977 13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-4
1979 The Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
1979 The rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"
1981 33-inning game ends, Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2
1981 Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
1981 NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
1982 -117ø F; All time low at the South Pole
1982 Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)
1985 Air India jet crashes near Ireland, 329 killed
1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
1985 Laffit Pncay Jr becomes the 2nd jockey to win $100 million
1986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
1987 W Landgraf discovers asteroid #3683 Baumann
1988 Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft
1988 Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager
1989 The movie "Batman" premiers
1990 A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Stat of Liberty
1990 TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of the year
1991 Tony Randall & Jack Klugman star in Bdwy performance of Odd Couple