Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 23

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  Banff National Park
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  Castle Mountain, Banff National Park
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  Lake Louise, Banff National Park
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  Stand Watie
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  Baron Pierre de Coubertin
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  Pierre de Coubertin
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  Gamal Abdel Nasser

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Blurb	Reason
St John's Day and Victory Day in Estonia	both: refimprove
Jāņi in Latvia;	refimprove
Saint Jonas' Festival in Lithuania;	tagged as stub
1713 – After Queen Anne's War, French residents of Acadia were given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia.	refimprove section
1757 – Seven Years' War: British forces under Robert Clive defeated troops under Siraj ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey, allowing the British East India Company to annex Bengal.	unreferenced section
1780 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army defeated British and Hessian troops at the Battle of Springfield, effectively ending British ambitions in New Jersey.	lots of cns
1817 – The Articles of Association of the Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, were adopted.	refimprove
1858 – Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy, was seized by papal authorities and taken to be raised as a Roman Catholic, sparking an international controversy.	neutrality issues
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.	refimprove
1919 – Estonian War of Independence: Estonian troops engaged the forces of the Pro-German Government of Latvia near Cēsis, Latvia, recapturing the area four days later.	unreferenced section
1961 – The Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, came into force.	already featured on December 1
1972 – More than forty countries left the sterling area, allowing their currencies to float independently of the British pound.	refimprove, date/fact not in article
1985 – A bomb attributed to the Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa destroyed [[Air India Flight 182|Air India Template:Nowrap]] above the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 329 on board.	refimprove
Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland |b|1456|	refimprove
Huda Sha'arawi |b|1879|	Date not cited
Mana Ashida|b|2004	Date not cited

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• 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.
• 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.
• 1797 – War of the First Coalition: Napoleon signed the Armistice of Bologna, agreeing a ceasefire between France and the Papal States.
• 1926 – The College Board administered the first SAT, a major standardized test for university and college admissions in the United States.
• 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".
• 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.
• 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| Heinrich Schnee |d|1949| Michèle Mouton |b|1951| Joss Whedon|b|1964| LaDainian Tomlinson |b|1979| Sanjay Gandhi |d|1980| Lisa Carrington|b|1989| Lim Ji-yeon|b|1990| Syndicate|b|1993| Betty Shabazz |d|1997| Doug Ring|d|2003| Nguyễn Chánh Thi|d|2007|

June 23: Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In an action off Trapani, Sicily, a Venetian fleet captured all 27 opposing Genoese vessels.
• 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 (pictured) in Alberta as the country's first national park.
• 1991 – The first instalment of the video-game series Sonic the Hedgehog was released in North America.