Editing June 23 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1913]] &ndash; [[Second Balkan War]]: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the [[Battle of Doiran (1913)|Battle of Doiran]].
*[[1914]] &ndash; [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Pancho Villa]] takes [[Zacatecas]] from [[Victoriano Huerta]].
*[[1917]] &ndash; In a game against the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|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 (baseball)|umpire]].
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Estonian War of Independence]]: The decisive defeat of the ''[[Baltische Landeswehr]]'' in the [[Battle of Cēsis (1919)|Battle of Cēsis]]; this date is celebrated as [[Victory Day (Estonia)|Victory Day]] in [[Estonia]].
*[[1926]] &ndash; The [[College Board]] administers the first [[SAT]] exam.
*[[1931]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; The [[Civil Aeronautics Act]] is signed into law, forming the [[Civil Aeronautics Authority]] in the United States.
*[[1940]] &ndash; Adolf Hitler goes on a three-hour tour of the [[architecture of Paris]] with architect [[Albert Speer]] and sculptor [[Arno Breker]] in his only visit to the city.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hitler-archive.com/articles.php?a=9 |title=Hitler Archive |access-date=2021-03-20 |archive-date=2021-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918083036/https://www.hitler-archive.com/articles.php?a=9 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1940   &ndash; [[Henry Larsen (explorer)|Henry Larsen]] begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of [[Northwest Passage]] from Vancouver, [[British Columbia]], Canada.<ref>{{cite book |last=Larsen |first=Henry |author-link=Henry Larsen (explorer) |title=The North-West Passage |date=1948 |publisher=Edmond Cloutier, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery |pages=7–24}}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; The [[Lithuanian Activist Front]] declares [[June Uprising in Lithuania|independence]] from the [[Soviet Union]] and forms the [[Provisional Government of Lithuania]]; it lasts only briefly as the [[German occupation of Lithuania during World War II|Nazis will occupy Lithuania]] a few weeks later.
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: Germany's latest [[fighter aircraft]], a [[Focke-Wulf Fw 190]], is captured intact when it [[Armin Faber|mistakenly lands]] at [[RAF Pembrey]] in Wales.
*[[1946]] &ndash; The [[1946 Vancouver Island earthquake]] strikes [[Vancouver Island]], British Columbia, Canada.
*[[1947]] &ndash; The [[United States Senate]] follows the [[United States House of Representatives]] in overriding U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]]'s [[Veto power in the United States|veto]] of the [[Taft–Hartley Act]].
*[[1951]] &ndash; The ocean liner [[SS United States|SS ''United States'']] is christened and launched.
*[[1956]] &ndash; 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]].
*[[1959]] &ndash; 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.
*[[1960]] &ndash; The United States [[Food and Drug Administration]] declares [[Mestranol/norethynodrel|Enovid]] to be the first officially approved [[combined oral contraceptive pill]] in the world.
*[[1961]] &ndash; The [[Antarctic Treaty System]], which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
*[[1967]] &ndash; 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]].
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[Warren E. Burger]] is sworn in as Chief Justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] by retiring Chief Justice [[Earl Warren]].
*  1969   &ndash; IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern [[software industry]].
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Watergate scandal]]: U.S. President [[Richard M. Nixon]] and [[White House]] Chief of Staff [[H. R. Haldeman]] are taped talking about illegally using the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] to obstruct the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]'s investigation into the [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] break-ins.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brinkley|first1=Douglas|last2=Nichter|first2=Luke|title=The Nixon Tapes|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|date=2014|isbn=9780544274150|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zbraAgAAQBAJ|page=737|access-date=2020-06-23|archive-date=2021-09-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918083035/https://books.google.com/books?id=zbraAgAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Watergate Trial Tapes |url=https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/watergate-trial-tapes |archive-date= |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=Richard Nixon Museum and Library}}</ref>
*  1972   &ndash; [[Title IX]] of the United States [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] is amended to prohibit [[sexism|sexual discrimination]] to any educational program receiving [[federal government of the United States|federal]] funds.
*[[1973]] &ndash; A fire at a house in [[Kingston upon Hull|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 serial arsonist [[Bruce George Peter Lee|Peter Dinsdale]].
*[[1985]] &ndash; A terrorist bomb [[1985 Narita International Airport bombing|explodes]] at [[Narita International Airport]] near Tokyo, killing two and injuring four. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard [[Air India Flight 182]], bringing the [[Boeing 747]] down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dowd |first=Allan |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68H1W220100918 |title="Canadian convicted of lying in Air India bomb case", Reuters Sept 18, 2010 |work=Reuters |date=18 September 2010 |access-date=19 February 2011 |archive-date=30 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230123151/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68H1W220100918 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' is released in North America on the [[Sega Genesis]] platform, beginning [[Sonic the Hedgehog|the popular video game franchise]].<ref name="edge">{{cite magazine|date=September 2001|title=The Making of&nbsp;... Sonic The Hedgehog|magazine=[[Edge (magazine)|Edge]]|location=[[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]|publisher=[[Future plc|Future Publishing]]|issue=101|pages=118–121|issn=1350-1593|quote="Sonic was delivering [the kind of] high speed no other [game] was capable of, and the Mega Drive allowed this stunning demonstration of rotation during the bonus stages. This was said to be impossible on the hardware at the time."}}</ref>
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[NASA]]'s [[Space Station Processing Facility]], a new state-of-the-art [[Manufacturing of the International Space Station|manufacturing]] building for the [[International Space Station]], officially opens at [[Kennedy Space Center]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/167451main_SSPF06.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2020-06-23 |archive-date=2020-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928064021/https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/167451main_SSPF06.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; The 8.4 {{M|w}} [[2001 southern Peru earthquake|southern Peru earthquake]] shakes coastal Peru with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[Ashton Eaton]] breaks the [[Decathlon world record progression|decathlon world record]] at the [[2012 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)|United States Olympic Trials]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Maese|first=Rick|title=Ashton Eaton sets world record in decathlon at U.S. Olympic track and field trials|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 23, 2012|access-date=June 23, 2020|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/ashton-eaton-sets-world-record-in-decathlon-at-us-olympic-track-and-field-trials/2012/06/23/gJQAy94XyV_story.html|archive-date=June 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625011638/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/ashton-eaton-sets-world-record-in-decathlon-at-us-olympic-track-and-field-trials/2012/06/23/gJQAy94XyV_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[Nik Wallenda]] becomes the first man to [[Skywire Live|successfully walk across]] the [[Grand Canyon]] on a [[Tightrope walking|tight rope]].
*  2013   &ndash; Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near [[Nanga Parbat]] in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, [[2013 Nanga Parbat tourist shooting|killing ten climbers]] and a local guide.
*[[2014]] &ndash; The last of Syria's [[Syria chemical weapons program|declared chemical weapons]] are [[Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons|shipped out for destruction]].
*[[2016]] &ndash; The [[United Kingdom]] votes in a [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|referendum]] to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
*[[2017]] &ndash; [[June 2017 Pakistan bombings|A series of terrorist attacks]] take place in [[Pakistan]], resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others.
*[[2018]] &ndash; Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand [[Tham Luang cave rescue|are trapped in a flooding cave]], leading to an 18-day rescue operation.<ref name="yahoo_Timeline">{{cite web|date=8 July 2018|title=Thai cave rescue: a timeline|url=https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/thai-cave-rescue-timeline-075857109.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708132107/https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/thai-cave-rescue-timeline-075857109.html|archive-date=8 July 2018|access-date=9 July 2018|publisher=Yahoo!}}</ref>