June 23: International Quds Day (2017); Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg
Lake Louise, Banff National Park
- 1757 – Seven Years' War: British forces under Robert Clive defeated troops under Siraj ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey, allowing the British East India Company to annex Bengal.
- 1858 – Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy, was seized by papal authorities and taken to be raised as a Roman Catholic, sparking an international controversy.
- 1887 – The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park (Lake Louise pictured) as the country's first national park.
- 1956 – Gamal Abdel Nasser became President of Egypt, a post he held until his death in 1970.
- 2014 – Under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 2118, the last of Syria's declared chemical weapons were shipped out for destruction.
Michèle Mouton (b. 1951) · V. V. Giri (d. 1980) · Betty Shabazz (d. 1997)
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