Today in history

Posted by Rayjo in Friday, June 23rd 2006   
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  • 1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revoked the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
  • 1865 – American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory, Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
  • 1894 – King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom born.(d. 1972)
  • 1907 – James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate born. (d. 1995)
  • 1940 – World War II: German leader, Adolf Hitler, surveys newly-defeated Paris in now-occupied France.
  • 1967 – Cold War: U.S. President, Lyndon B. Johnson, meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
  • 1972 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President, Richard M. Nixon, and White House chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
  • 1991 – Sonic, the Hedgehog, one of the most popular video game characters in history, makes his debut in his self-titled video game.
  • 1996 – The Nintendo 64, successor to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, is released in Japan.

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