June 23
1868
Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a ”Type-Writer.”
1947
The Senate overrode President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1969
Warren Burger was sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1972
Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman discussed ways to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. Revelation of this conversation spurred on Nixon’s 1974 resignation.
1992
Mobster John Gotti was sentenced to life in prison.
1995
Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first polio vaccine, died.
2003
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan’s School of Law affirmative action policy.
Birthdays
Jean Anouilh
1910–87, French dramatist.
Edward VIII
king of Great Britain and Ireland (1894)
Alan Turing
computer scientist (1912)
Wilma Rudolph
Track & Field (1940)
James Levine
music director (1943)
Clarence Thomas
associate justice (1948)
Frances McDormand
actress (1957)