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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_23" title="June 23">June 23</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke%27s_Official_Birthday" title="Grand Duke's Official Birthday">Grand Duke's Official Birthday</a></b> in Luxembourg
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1594" title="1594">1594</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1585%E2%80%931604)" title="Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)">Anglo-Spanish War</a>: During the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_Faial" title="Action of Faial">Action of Faial</a></b>, an English attempt to capture a Portuguese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrack" title="Carrack">carrack</a>, reputedly one of the richest ever to set sail from the Indies, caused it to explode with all the treasure lost.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894" title="1894">1894</a> – Led by French historian <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Coubertin" title="Pierre de Coubertin">Pierre de Coubertin</a></b>, an international congress at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Paris" title="University of Paris">Sorbonne</a> in Paris formed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee" title="International Olympic Committee">International Olympic Committee</a> to revive the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games" title="Ancient Olympic Games">ancient Olympic Games</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944" title="1944">1944</a> – After <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_Ghetto_and_the_Red_Cross" title="Theresienstadt Ghetto and the Red Cross">a closely supervised visit</a></b> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross" title="International Committee of the Red Cross">Red Cross</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_Ghetto" title="Theresienstadt Ghetto">Theresienstadt Ghetto</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia_(1938%E2%80%931945)" title="Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)">German-occupied Czechoslovakia</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Rossel" title="Maurice Rossel">Maurice Rossel</a></b> reported that conditions there were "almost normal".</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991" title="1991">1991</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(1991_video_game)" title="Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)">The first installment</a></b> of the video-game series <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog" title="Sonic the Hedgehog">Sonic the Hedgehog</a></b></i> was released.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a> – Under the terms of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2118" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 2118">UN Security Council Resolution 2118</a>, the last of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_chemical_weapons_program" title="Syria chemical weapons program">Syria's declared chemical weapons</a> were <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Syria%27s_chemical_weapons" title="Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons">shipped out for destruction</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymer_de_Valence,_2nd_Earl_of_Pembroke" title="Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke">Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1324); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Hutton" title="Len Hutton">Len Hutton</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1916); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Torrey" title="Bill Torrey">Bill Torrey</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1934); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon" title="Joss Whedon">Joss Whedon</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1964)</p>
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