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Tuesday, 23 June 2026
1919 James Lovelock, scientist 
1920 Women in the US obtain the right to vote as the 19th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
1920 Bob Waterfield, NFL QB (Rams)
1920 Carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83
1922 Andrzej Koszewski, composer.
1923 James Hoyt Wilhelm, pitcher
1923 Peter Carey, permanent secretary (DTI).
1924 Elias Motsoaledi, South African Umkhonto we Sizwe-commandant
1925 William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65
1926 National Bar Association incorporates
1926 Barbara Jefford, actress (Saint, Reunion, Ulysses)
1927 G S Ramchand, cricketer (valuable all-rounder in 33 Tests for India).
1928 Stanley Kubrick, British director is born
1928 Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title.
1928 Hans Haselbock, composer
1933 Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League
1936 The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1937 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
1938 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC
1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs.
1940 Formation of Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS)
1941 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague.
1941 Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies.
1942 CAPT Joy Bright Hancock appointed Director, Women's Naval Reserve.
1942 RAF bombs Hamburg
1942 Titus Brandsma, [Anno Sjoerd], Dutch Roman Catholic priest and philosopher (Dachau), dies.
1943 120°F (49°C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record)
1944 Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam.
1944 Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], cossack officer/shah of Persia, dies.
1945 Churchill steps down as Britain's PM.
1945 After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee is recorded as becoming PM.
1946 President Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
1946 Morris Hirshfield, Polish/US painter, dies.
1947 Department of Defense established.
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