Talk:June 23

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June 23: Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg Autograph score of BWV 39 1726 – On the First Sunday after Trinity, J. S. Bach led the first performance of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 (page pictured), one of a few new cantatas written that year. 1865 – Stand Watie became the last Confederate general of the American Civil War to surrender to Union forces. 1887 – The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park in Alberta as the country's first national park. 1926 – The College Board administered the first Scholastic Aptitude Test, a major standardized test for university and college admissions in the United States. 1991 – The first instalment of the video-game series Sonic the Hedgehog was released in North America. Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1324) Len Hutton (b. 1916) Bill Torrey (b. 1934) Joss Whedon (b. 1964) More anniversaries: June 22 June 23 June 24

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In the event, 1724 - Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople, the link to Treaty of Constantinople doesn't correspond to the event. Should we rename the link? -- Jung dalglish 05:37, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What Government?

I'm just about to remove an entry that reads:

The Liberal minority Government survives passing its NDP additions (C-48) to its 2005 Budget (C-43), by catching the conservatives off guard with missing members. A vote on C-43 the following week would have likely been defeated and triggered an election.

The reason for this is that it contains no information about what country this is about. I have no idea what this entry even means because of a basic lack of context. Also, it doesn't actually appear to be that important in the grand scheme of things. If it actually triggered a general election for some country then maybe it would have been worth keeping. --Colin Angus Mackay 22:39, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hariet the tortoise

Just thought someone might create the article about her: . Wikipedian231 16:12, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Edit request from Zjs1, 22 June 2010

{{editsemiprotected}} Add the following to the Births section:

Richard Bach (1936) - American writer (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

Zjs1 (talk) 23:34, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

The dob in the bio article does not appear to be supported by a reliable source. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 00:08, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Alan Turing centenary

Is it to late to propose Alan Turing on the centenary of his birth?

1912 - Alan Turing widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence was born. Richerman (talk) 14:01, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Which would be fine: except this is the talk page for the 23rd June! Cuddy2977 (talk) 19:15, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

The Secret Service

I’ve taken down the entry that told us the US Secret Service had been created by Congress on this day in 1860: as it was directly contradicted by the relevant Wikipedia entry, and the Secret Service’s own history page. Cuddy2977 (talk) 19:13, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Can I just say that the entire page is skewed (as is common on Wiki) to a US perspective. "1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France." - Oh the one in France? Thanks. "1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam." - what country what that, I wonder? You're not the centre of the universe, please stop assuming the 'standard' wiki reader is American. 151.224.102.18 (talk) 13:06, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

References

please remove

this is not important in any way "2003 – Kane unmasks on Monday Night Raw, revealing himself as Glen Jacobs, the future mayor of Knox County, Tennessee." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.127.69.235 (talk) 21:35, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 June 2019

I want to add Armen Sarkissian, the president of Armenia, who was born on this date in 1953. Quintessence62 (talk) 00:14, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

 Not done for now: Hi User:Quintessence62, could you provide a source for that content, please? aboideau^talk 01:09, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Armen Sarkissian's Wikipedia page. If it's wrong, then there's something else we need to edit. Quintessence62 (talk) 04:04, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

@Quintessence62: Wikipedia pages aren't quite enough (see Wikipedia:Days_of_the_year#Direct_citations), but whatever's supporting that fact in his Wikipedia article should work, if you could find that? aboideau^talk 14:17, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

There's no source on the article, but I found https://armenpress.am/eng/news/938632.html, which says so. Quintessence62 (talk) 23:47, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

 Done Saucy^{[talk – contribs]} 03:53, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Suspect Entry under 'Deaths'

This entry in the 'Deaths' section:

2023 – Marriage, Ankit and Saba got married (in 2023)

Looks like a private joke rather than a reference to a notable death 79.135.124.184 (talk) 06:15, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

International day of women in engineering

a Wiki page is required, and this has none. There a day of women and girls in science and engineering but that is Feb 11 (qv) 209.128.31.98 (talk) 15:17, 23 June 2025 (UTC)