June
23
United
Nations Public Service Day
International Widows Day
June 23 : United Nations Public Service
Day
The UN General Assembly, in its resolution 57/277, designated
23 June as Public Service Day.
The UN Public
Service Day intends to celebrate the value and virtue of public
service to the community; highlight the contribution of public
service in the development process; recognize the work of public
servants, and encourage young people to pursue careers in the
public sector.
Since the
first Awards Ceremony in 2003, the United Nations has received
an increasing number of submissions from all around the world.
This year,
on the occasion of the celebration of the United Nations Public
Service Day, the UN Public Service Awards Ceremony and a forum
on the theme of "The Role of Public Service in Achieving
the Millennium Development Goals: Challenges and Best Practices"
will take place in Barcelona, Spain from 21 to 23 June 2010.
June
23 : International Widows Day
Cherie Blair, the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair
and a leading human rights lawyer, has appealed to the UN to recognise
June 23 as International Widows Day. The
appeal came Tuesday on the campaign's 5th anniversary celebrations
at the House of Lords, Britain's upper house of parliament.
"I
am pleased to see that our campaign for UN recognition of International
Widows Day is gaining support from all over the world and call
upon the UN to bestow official recognition accordingly,"
Blair said.
Events
79 – Titus
succeeds his father Vespasian as the tenth Roman Emperor.
1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
1305 – A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is
signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn
(south of Stirling) begins.
1532 – Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against
Emperor Charles V.
1565 – Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy,
dies during the Siege of Malta.
1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets
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.
1661 – Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine
of Braganza.
1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape
Indians in Pennsylvania.
1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to
declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
1757 – Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert
Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah
at Plassey.
1758 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces
defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats
Prussia.
1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in
and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly
of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission
to settle in Kiev.
1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on
American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons
for going to war.
1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
1860 – The United States Congress establishes the Government
Printing Office.
1865 – American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory,
Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last
significant rebel army.
1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating
the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the
Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1913 – Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in
the Battle of Doiran.
1914 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from
Victoriano Huerta.
1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red
Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing
Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
1919 – Estonian War of Independence: the decisive defeat of
the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cesis. This day is
celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field,
Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine
plane.
1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming
the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly
defeated Paris in now occupied France.
1941 – The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from
the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania;
it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few
weeks later.
1942 – World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber
at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
1942 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf
Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey
in Wales.
1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and
HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean
after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver
Island, British Columbia, Canada.
1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House
of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's
veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1956 – The French National Assembly takes the first step in
creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring
a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments
in French West Africa.
1958 – The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released
after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden,
East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
1959 – A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34
people.
1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration declares
Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive
pill in the world.
1961 – Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica
as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent,
comes into force after the opening date for signature set for
the December 1, 1959.
1967 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the
three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
1968 – 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede
towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the
United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
1972 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and
White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking
about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate
break-ins.
1972 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964
is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational
program receiving federal funds.
1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six
year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges
as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven
years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin is beaten to death in Highland
Park, Michigan, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for
Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto
companies.
1985 – A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the
Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Æthelthryth
Marie of Oignies
June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Father's Day (Nicaragua, Poland, Uganda)
Grand Duke's Official Birthday (Luxembourg)
National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)
St John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations
(although this is not the real summer solstice, see June 20)
(Roman Catholic Church, Northern Europe):
First day of Golowan Festival (Cornwall)
First night of Ivan Kupala Day
Jaaniõhtu (Estonia)
Last day of Drăgaica fair (Buzău, Romania)
Līgo (Latvia)
United Nations Public Service Day (International)
Victory Day (Estonia)
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