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Tuesday, 23 June 2026
1987 The inaugural release of Beatles compact discs 
1987 The Tower Commission report is issued, chiding President Reagan for his national security staff's actions in the Iran-Contra affair
1987 USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000 meter (1 17.65)
1989 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 performances
1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs.
1989 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa).
1990 President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua concedes defeat to election opponent, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
1990 USSR agrees to withdraw all 73500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991.
1990 Cornell Gunther, US musician (Coasters, Poison Ivy), dies at 53.
1991 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs New Zealand (119 and 102)
1991 Bill Veeck and Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1991 During the Gulf War, Kuwait City is liberated and Iraq begins its withdrawl
1991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital.
1992 Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion
1992 Gerrit Schulte, "Crazy Cyclist", Dutch 6-days bicyclist, dies at 76
1993 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die.
1993 Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10123
1993 Six people die and more than a thousand are injured when Islamic extremists explode a bomb in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City.
1993 Terrorist bomb explosion under the World Trade Center, New York.
1993 Constance Ford, US actress (Another World, Burden Hunt), dies at 64
1994 Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm.
1994 Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87
1995 Barings, England's oldest investment banking company, fails after a securities broker loses over $1 billion gambling on Tokyo stock prices
1996 Audrey Angers, charity pioneer
1997 39th Grammy Awards Change the World Babyface, Beck and LeAnn Rimes win
1997 David Doyle, actor (Charlie's Angels), dies at 67.
1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial
1998 Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean
1999 Ontario Southland commenced operation over the CP Port Burwell subdivision from Ingersoll to Tillsonburg, ON.
2005 Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt asked parliament to amend the constitution to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 205.
2007 The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.
2012 In this year, The film The Artist claims five Academy Awards and is recorded as becoming the inaugural silent film to win since 1927
2013 A flexible battery capable of being charged wirelessly and folded and stretched is developed.
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