On This Day for June 23 - Battle of Bannockburn, Clarence Thomas is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-23 10:03 Updated: 2020-06-23 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 23

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Clarence Thomas

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Battle of Bannockburn

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2016: The United Kingdom voted in a referendum to withdraw from the European Union , with 51.9 percent supporting Britain's exit (“Brexit”) and 48.1 percent opposing the move; it marked the first time a country had decided to leave the organization. [Test your knowledge of British culture and politics.]

2006: American television producer Aaron Spelling—whose credits included a number of hugely successful shows, including The Mod Squad, Family, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, and Beverly Hills 90210—died in Los Angeles. [Take our pop culture quiz.]

1961: The Antarctic Treaty was enacted, reserving the entire continent for free and nonpolitical scientific investigation. [Sort fact from fiction in our Antarctica quiz.]

1940: Sprinter Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics, was born. [Take our quiz about the Olympics.]

1925: An expedition under A.H. MacCarthy and H.F. Lambert became the first to reach the summit of Mount Logan, the second highest mountain in North America. [Sort fact from fiction in our mountains quiz.]

1865: The Cherokee chief and Confederate general Stand Watie surrendered at the close of the American Civil War —one of the last Confederate commanders to do so.

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1912

Alan Turing
British mathematician and logician

1972

Zinedine Zidane
French football player

1894

Edward VIII
king of United Kingdom

1964

Joss Whedon
American screenwriter, producer, and director

1948

Clarence Thomas
United States jurist