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Events on June 23

• 1314 In the Battle of Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce won a decisive victory over an English army under Edward II, thereby securing Scotland’s independence.
• 1757 In the Battle of Plassey, a mercenary troop of the British East India Company led by Robert Clive defeated the forces of Siraj-ud-Daula, the last independent Nawab of Bengal. The battle is regarded as the beginning of British rule in India.
• 1802 The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt ascended the 6267-meter-high Chimborazo in South America together with the French botanist Aimé Bonpland, reaching a height of around 5600 meters. Humboldt subsequently described the symptoms of altitude sickness for the first time.
• 1894 On the initiative of Pierre de Coubertin, the International Olympic Committee was founded in Paris. Athens was selected as the host city for the first modern Olympic Games.
• 1920 With the abolition of noble privileges in Prussia, noble titles in Germany henceforth became merely components of names.
• 1960 In the United States, Enovid was approved as a contraceptive and thus became the world’s first contraceptive pill.
• 1972 The West German compulsory military service was reduced from 18 to 15 months.
• 1996 The two German priests Karl Leisner and Bernhard Lichtenberg were beatified by Pope John Paul II at the Berlin Olympic Stadium.
• 1999 In Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, the sales ban imposed on Coca-Cola beverages was lifted.
• 2004 The German national football team was eliminated at the European Championship in Portugal, losing 1:2 against the Czech Republic. One day later, team coach Rudi Völler resigned from his post.
• 2006 The Musée du quai Branly in Paris opened as France’s national museum for non-European art.
• 2016 In a referendum on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union, 51.9% of voters (with a turnout of 72.2%) voted for leaving.

Born on June 23

• 1884 Werner Krauß, German actor
• 1912 Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptanalyst
• 1930 Maria Körber, German actress
• 1940 Wilma Rudolph, African-American track and field athlete and outstanding sportswoman
• 1940 Stuart Sutcliffe, British painter and musician
• 1962 Ralf Günther, German television producer
• 1970 Mark ’Oh, German music producer and DJ
• 1972 Selma Blair, American actress
• 1980 Melissa Rauch, American actress
• 1981 Jana Pareigis, German journalist and television presenter

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „23. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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