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Today in History: Thursday, June\u00a0 23, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn June 23, 1972, President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation.
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1868<\/td>\nChristopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1892<\/td>\nThe Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1923<\/td>\nChoreographer-director Bob Fosse was born in Chicago.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1931<\/td>\nAviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1947<\/td>\nThe Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1956<\/td>\nGamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1969<\/td>\nWarren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>\nJohn Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nLorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nFormer Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas turns 68 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Randy Jackson<\/td>\nTV personality (“American Idol”)<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frances McDormand<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joss Whedon<\/td>\nWriter, director (“The Avengers” movies, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selma Blair<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
KT Tunstall<\/td>\nRock singer<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Duffy<\/td>\nRock singer<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actress Melissa Rauch (“The Big Bang Theory”) turns 36 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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