On This Day: June 23

Updated June 22, 2012, 2:28 pm

On June 23, 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

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On June 23, 1894, Edward VIII, the British monarch who abdicated in 1936 in order to marry American Wallis Simpson, was born. Following his death on May 28, 1972, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

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1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer.”

1892 The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.

1923 Choreographer-director Bob Fosse was born in Chicago.

1931 Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.

1947 The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.

1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.

1969 Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.

1992 John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.

1993 Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.

2005 Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.

2009 “Tonight Show” sidekick Ed McMahon died at 86.

2010 Following Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s criticism of the Obama administration in a Rolling Stone magazine profile, President Barack Obama named Gen. David Petraeus to replace the Afghanistan commander.

Current Birthdays

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Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas turns 64 years old today.

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Actress Melissa Rauch (“The Big Bang Theory”) turns 32 years old today.

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1956 Randy Jackson, TV personality (“American Idol”), turns 56

1957 Frances McDormand, Actress, turns 55

1972 Selma Blair, Actress, turns 40

1975 KT Tunstall, Rock singer, turns 37

1979 LaDainian Tomlinson, Football player, turns 33

1984 Duffy, Rock singer, turns 28

Historic Birthdays

Edward VIII 6/23/1894 – 5/28/1972 King of England (1936); abdicated his throne.Go to obituary »

61 John Fell 6/23/1625 – 7/10/1686
English Anglican priest, author and typographer

75 Giambattista Vico 6/23/1668 – 1/23/1744
Italian philosopher

50 Josephine 6/23/1763 – 5/29/1814
French consort of Napoleon and empress of France (1804-10)

85 Carl Reinecke 6/23/1824 – 3/10/1910
German pianist, composer, conductor and teacher

67 Irvin S. Cobb 6/23/1876 – 3/10/1944
American journalist and humorist

62 Alfred Charles Kinsey 6/23/1894 – 8/25/1956
American zoologist; headed Indiana University’s Institute for Sexual Research

89 Paul Joseph Martin 6/23/1903 – 9/14/1992
Canadian politician and diplomat

88 James Edward Meade 6/23/1907 – 12/22/1995
English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1977)

77 Jean Anouilh 6/23/1910 – 10/3/1987
French playwright

60 Bob Fosse 6/23/1927 – 9/23/1987
American theatre and film choreographer

1868	Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer.”
1892	The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.
1923	Choreographer-director Bob Fosse was born in Chicago.
1931	Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1947	The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.
1956	Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1969	Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.
1992	John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.
1993	Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
2005	Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
2009	“Tonight Show” sidekick Ed McMahon died at 86.
2010	Following Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s criticism of the Obama administration in a Rolling Stone magazine profile, President Barack Obama named Gen. David Petraeus to replace the Afghanistan commander.

1956	Randy Jackson, TV personality (“American Idol”), turns 56
1957	Frances McDormand, Actress, turns 55
1972	Selma Blair, Actress, turns 40
1975	KT Tunstall, Rock singer, turns 37
1979	LaDainian Tomlinson, Football player, turns 33
1984	Duffy, Rock singer, turns 28

61	John Fell 6/23/1625 – 7/10/1686 English Anglican priest, author and typographer
75	Giambattista Vico 6/23/1668 – 1/23/1744 Italian philosopher
50	Josephine 6/23/1763 – 5/29/1814 French consort of Napoleon and empress of France (1804-10)
85	Carl Reinecke 6/23/1824 – 3/10/1910 German pianist, composer, conductor and teacher
67	Irvin S. Cobb 6/23/1876 – 3/10/1944 American journalist and humorist
62	Alfred Charles Kinsey 6/23/1894 – 8/25/1956 American zoologist; headed Indiana University’s Institute for Sexual Research
89	Paul Joseph Martin 6/23/1903 – 9/14/1992 Canadian politician and diplomat
88	James Edward Meade 6/23/1907 – 12/22/1995 English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1977)
77	Jean Anouilh 6/23/1910 – 10/3/1987 French playwright
60	Bob Fosse 6/23/1927 – 9/23/1987 American theatre and film choreographer