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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