Historical Events  -  June 23

1757: The Battle of Plassey.

1868: Christopher Latham Scholes received a patent for a typewriter.

1894: The International Olympic Committee was established under the presidency of Demetrios Vikelas in Lausanne, Switzerland.

1979: West Indies won their second Cricket World Cup by defeating England by 92 runs.

1980: Sanjay Gandhi, the young politician, and son of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, died in a plane crash.

1985: Terrorist bomb exploded on Air India’s Kanishka Boeing 747 aircraft. 329 killed.

2016: The United Kingdom left the European Union with a 52% to 48% turnout.

 

Famous Birthdays  – June 23

1912: Alan Turing, an English mathematician, and computer scientist.

1934: Chandi Prasad Bhatt, an Indian Gandhian environmentalist, and social activist.

1942: Jabbar Patel, an Indian theatre and film director.

1952: Raj Babbar, an Indian film actor and politician.

1956: Prashant Bhushan, an Indian lawyer.

 

Death Anniversaries -  June 23

1761: Peshwa Balaji Bajirao Bhat, the 8th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.

1836: James Mill, a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher.

1893: Wilhelm Eduard Weber, a German physicist.

1939: Gijubhai Badheka, an educator who helped to introduce Montessori education methods to India.

1953: Syama Prasad Mukherjee, an Indian politician.

1980: Sanjay Gandhi, an Indian politician and the son of Indira Gandhi. 

1990: Harindranath Chattopadhyay, an Indian English poet.