June 23<\/p>\n
1280 \u2013 During the Reconquista, in the Battle of Mocl\u00edn,\u00a0 the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of Castile.<\/p>\n
1683 \u2013 William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
1780 \u2013 American General Nathaniel Greene, commanding 1500 men of the New Jersey Militia, defeats a 5000 man force of British Army troops and Hessian mercenaries at the Battle of Springfield, effectively ending British ambitions in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
1810 \u2013 John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company and orders the construction of a base of operations; Fort Astoria, present-day Astoria, Oregon – at the mouth of the Columbia River.<\/p>\n
1812 \u2013 During the War of 1812, Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce it had try to enforce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders his army at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma and Indian Territory<\/p>\n
1868 \u2013 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he calls the “Type-Writer.”<\/p>\n
1894 \u2013 At the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris to organize modern athletic competition modeled after the ancient Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
1914 \u2013 Pancho Villa defeats Victoriano Huerta at Zacatecas<\/p>\n
1926 \u2013 The College Board administers the first SAT exam.<\/p>\n
1931 \u2013 Pilot Wiley Post and Navigator Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, in the Lockheed Vega Winne Mae<\/em>, to make the first circumnavigation of the world in a single engine plane.<\/p>\n 1938 \u2013 The Civil Aeronautics Act<\/em> is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 The Senate follows the House of Representatives in overriding President Truman’s veto of the Taft\u2013Hartley Act,<\/em> restricting\u00a0the power of labor unions<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only 9 years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 The FDA declares G. D. Searle & Company’s Enovid<\/em> to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 The Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964<\/em> is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 23 1280 \u2013 During the Reconquista, in the Battle of Mocl\u00edn,\u00a0 the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of Castile. 1683 \u2013 William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. 1780 \u2013 American General Nathaniel Greene, commanding … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93836,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56199\/revisions\/93836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}