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June 23, 1611 – The mutinous crew
of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage set Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members
adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay. They are never heard from
again.
June 23, 1776 - Off the coast of
Charleston, South Carolina, British Commodore Sir Peter Parker notified General
Sir Henry Clinton of his intention to land on the South Carolina mainland the
next day.
June 23, 1780 – During the American
Revolution, the Battle of Springfield was fought in and around Springfield, New
Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn
Township).
June 23, 1812 – During the War of
1812, Great Britain revoked the restrictions on American commerce, thus
eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
June 23, 1860 - The U.S. Secret Service
was created to arrest counterfeiters.
June 23, 1862 - Confederate General
Robert E. Lee met with his corps commanders to plan an attack on General George
McClellan's Army of the Potomac.
June 23, 1862 - U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln took a train from Washington to West Point, New York. The next
day he called on Winfield Scott to discuss Union strategy in Virginia.
June 23, 1863 - Union General
William Rosecrans marched his troops out of their camp in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
June 23, 1865 – During the Civil
War, at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General
Stand Watie, who was also a Cherokee chief, surrendered the last sizable and
significant rebel army following the Battle of Doaksville. Watie was the last
Confederate general in the field to surrender.
June 23, 1866 – The first issue of The Monroe Journal
newspaper was published in Claiborne, Ala. Z.D. Cottrell was the newspaper’s
editor.
June 23, 1868 – The typewriter was patented on this day by
Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee, Wisc.
June 23, 1912 - Author Douglas Fields Bailey was born in
Dothan, Ala.
June 23, 1915 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
following slate of new officers had been elected at Greening Masonic Lodge, No.
53, in Evergreen, Ala.: J.T. Amos, Worshipful Master; T.B. McDonald, Senior
Warden; Byron Tisdale, Junior Warden; H.H. Floyd, Treasurer; J.A. Smith,
Secretary; J.W. Hagood, Senior Deacon; L.J. Mixon, Junior Deacon; F.N. Hawkins,
Tyler; H.L. Tucker and S.L. Tisdale, Stewards; G.E. Mize, Chaplain; E.C.
Barnes, Marshal.
June 23, 1915 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
following slate of new officers had been elected at Sepulga Masonic Lodge No.
233: Jese A. Jones, Worshipful Master; S.S. Kendrick, Senior Warden; W.T.
McCrory, Junior Warden; J.E. Dean, Treasurer; T.A. Jones, Secretary; J.T.
Salter, Senior Deacon; E.O. Mixon, Junior Deacon; C.C. Lane and C.A. Sims,
Stewards; C.G. Middleton, Tyler; F.M. Fletcher, Chaplain.
June 23, 1915 – “One of the foulest and most horrible crimes
ever committed” in Conecuh County, Ala. occurred on this Wednesday night when
John Salter and Robert Watkins murdered Martha Lassiter and tried to rob and
murder Wiley House. They also burned House’s home to hide their crime, which
they confessed to on June 26.
June 23, 1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators,
Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retired 26 batters in a row after replacing
Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
June 23, 1924 - Author C. Eric Lincoln was born in Athens,
Ala.
June 23, 1928 – Novelist Michael Shaara was born in Jersey
City, N.J. He received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1975 for his Civil War
novel, “The Killer Angels.”
June 23, 1929 - Author Babs H. Deal was born in Scottsboro,
Ala.
June 23, 1940 – During World War II, German leader Adolf
Hitler surveyed newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
June 23, 1941 – The Lithuanian Activist Front declared
independence from the Soviet Union and formed the Provisional Government of
Lithuania. It lasted only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few
weeks later.
June 23, 1951 - Alabama author Peter Huggins was born in
Oxford, Miss.
June 23, 1951 - A 200-mile stretch of Kansas was hit by one
of the most expensive hailstorms in U.S. history, with over $15 million in
crops and property damage.
June 23, 1953 - Author Roy Hoffman was born in Mobile, Ala.
June 23, 1961 – During the Cold War, the Antarctic Treaty,
which set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and banned military
activity on the continent, came into force after the opening date for signature
set for the Dec. 1, 1959.
June 23, 1972 – As related to the Watergate Scandal, U.S.
President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman were
taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
June 23, 1989 - Tim Burton’s noir spin on the well-known story of the DC Comics hero “Batman” was released in theaters.
June 23, 2009 – American physician and explorer Jerri Nielsen passed away at the age of 57 in Southwick, Mass. She is best known for self-administering a biopsy, and later chemotherapy, after discovering a breast tumor while in Antarctica until she could be evacuated
June 23, 2013 – Nik Wallenda became the first man to
successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
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