On This Day:
Saturday June 23, 2007This is the 174th day of the year, with 191 days remaining in 2007. Fact of the Day: "Who's on First"Abbott and Costello's famous baseball comedy routine "Who's on First" had the following lineup: first base - Who; second base - What; third base - I Don't Know; shortstop - I Don't Give a Darn; catcher - Today; pitcher - Tomorrow; left field - Why; center field - because. Although right field was not used in the routine, it could be assumed that the player's name was Naturally.
HolidaysFeast day of St. Cyneburg, St. Etheldreda, St. Agrippina, St. Lietbertus, St. Joseph Cafasso, and St. Thomas Garnet.
Latvia, Denmark: Midsummer Eve.
Luxembourg: National Day (became principality 963 AD).
Estonia: Victory Day.
Events1845 - A special session of the legislature of Texas voted in favor of annexation by the United States.
1860 - The U.S. Secret Service was created to arrest counterfeiters and protect the president.
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer." It typed capital letters.
1931 - Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1933 - "The Breakfast Club" premiered on radio.
1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Authority was established.
1947 - The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1952 - The U.S. Air Force bombed power plants on Yalu River, Korea.
1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1961 - The International Treaty of Scientific Cooperation and Peaceful Use of Antarctica was signed.
1992 - Mafia boss John Gotti was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering.
2005 - Edgar Ray Killen, American former Ku Klux Klan organizer, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
Births1763 - Josephine, French consort of Napoleon Bonaparte and empress of France (1804-10).
1894 - Dr. Alfred Kinsey, American zoologist, sexual behavior researcher.
1894 - Edward VIII, British monarch who abdicated in 1936 in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
1910 - Jean Anouilh, French playwright.
1911 - David Ogilvy, English-born advertising executive, often been called "The Father of Advertising."
1912 - Alan M. Turing, English mathematician and pioneer of computer theory.
1927 - (Robert Louis) Bob Fosse, American award-winning director, choreographer.
1948 - Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1957 - Frances McDormand, American actress.
Deaths1995 - Jonas Salk, American physician and microbiologist who invented the first safe and effective polio vaccine.
1997 - Betty Shabazz (born Betty Jean Sanders), was the wife of Malcolm X.
2006 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer.
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