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UN Public Service Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DY — Kolohe: Comic PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Paniman: Funnyman, clown HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Observe the horizon clouds of the land.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.” (George Carlin)
TODAY: Sunday’s Maalaea Fire Closed Pali Highway Stranding Hundreds. More >
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – June 23rd
- 1784: First U.S. balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
- 1947: Truman’s veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
- 1949: First 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
- 1956: Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
- 1969: Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.
- 1972: Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
- 1972: President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
- 1993: Lorena Bobbitt mutilates the genitalia of her husband, John, after he allegedly rapes her
- 2005: Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the
- 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
BORN ON THIS DAY – June 23rd
- 1910: Jean Anouilh, dramatist
- 1912: Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory
1927: Bob Fosse, choreographer/director - 1929: June Carter Cash, country singer
- 1940: Diana Trask, singer
- 1947: Bryan Brown, actor
- 1948: Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice/perjurer/pornographer
- 1956: Randy Jackson, TV personality
- 1957: Frances McDormand, actress
DIED ON THIS DAY – June 23rd
- 79: Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9)
- 1222: Constance of Aragon, Aragonese princess
- 1832: James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
- 1995: Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
- 1996: Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
- 1997: Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X (b. 1936)
- 1998: Maureen O’Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
- 2005: Shana Alexander, American columnist (b. 1926)
- 2006: Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
- 2009: Ed McMahon, American television personality (b. 1923)
