23 Juin

The **23rd o Juin** is the 174t day o the year (175t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 191 days ti come.

## Events

* 1314 - Stairt o the Battle o Bannockburn, sooth o Stirlin, Edward II o Ingland an Robert I o Scotland forgaithert tae battle. Robert wan an Edward flittit baith the field an Scotland.
* 1848 - Stairt o the Juin Days Uprisin in Fraunce.
* 1887 - Banff Naitional Pairk in Alberta, Canadae, is creatit.
* 1894 - The Internaitional Olympic Committee is foondit.
* 1914 - Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa captures Zacatecas.
* 1925 - Mt. Logan, Canadae's heichest peak, is first climbed.
* 1944 - Thomas Mann becomes a Unitit States citizen.
* 1961 - The Antairctic Treaty enters intae force.
* 1983 - Pape John Paul II meets wi Pols trade union leader Lech Walesa.
* 1985 - An Air Indie plane is brocht doon bi a bomb off Ireland, killin aw 329 fowk on baird.
* 1998 - Fitbaa: Scotland loses 3-0 tae Morocco at the 1998 FIFA Warld Cup group stage in its final major toornament match tae date.
* 2005 - Scots leid version o Wikipedia wis stairtit.
* 2013 - Nik Wallenda walks on a tightrope across the Grand Canyon, Arizona.
* 2016 - The Unitit Kinrick votes in a European Union membership referendum, producin the deceesion tae leave the European Union, bi a majority o 51.9% (tae 48.1%). Scotland votes bi a majority o 62% (tae 38%) tae remain.
* 2018 - Thoosands o fowk mairch in Lunnon agin Brexit on the 2nt anniversary o the referendum.
* 2018 - A bomb is detonatit at a poleetical rally o Zimbabwe's Preses Emmerson Mnangagwa in an attempt on his life.
* 2018 - 12 boys an thair assistant fitbaw coach become stuck in the Tham Luang cave in northren Thailand; they are successfully rescued ower twa weeks later.
* 2019 - Ekrem Imamoglu, the opposeetion candidate, wins the re-run o Istanbul's Mayoral election agin Binali Yildirim, the preffered candidate o Preses o Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

## Births

*47 BC &ndash; Caesarion, Egyptian keeng (d. 30 BC)
*1456 &ndash; Margaret o Denmark, Queen o Scotland (d. 1486)
*1534 &ndash; Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
*1668 &ndash; Giambattista Vico, Italian jurist, historian, an philosopher (d. 1744)
*1763 &ndash; Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress o Fraunce (d. 1814)
*1889 &ndash; Anna Akhmatova, Roushie poet (d. 1966)
*1894 &ndash; Edward VIII o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1972)
*1904 &ndash; Willie MacFadyen, Scots fitbawer (d. 1971)
*1910 &ndash; Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
*1912 &ndash; Alan Turing, Inglis mathematician an computer scientist (d. 1954)
*1925 &ndash; Oliver Smithies, Breetish-American geneticist (d. 2017)
*1937 &ndash; Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish politeecian, 10t Preses o Finland, Nobel Prize laureate
*1937 &ndash; Bobby Kennedy, Scots fitbawer
*1940 &ndash; Willie Wallace, Scots fitbawer
*1943 &ndash; Vint Cerf, American internet pioneer
*1951 &ndash; Sergei Skripal, Roushie double-agent
*1956 &ndash; Graeme Armstrong, Scots fitbawer
*1957 &ndash; Frances McDormand, American actress
*1961 &ndash; John Nicolson, Scots jurnalist an politeecian
*1963 &ndash; Colin Montgomerie, Scots gowfer
*1972 &ndash; Selma Blair, American actress
*1972 &ndash; Zinedine Zidane, French fitbawer an manager
*1975 &ndash; KT Tunstall, Scots sangster
*1976 &ndash; Patrick Vieira, French fitbawer
*1980 &ndash; Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
*1983 &ndash; Richie Ramsay, Scots gowfer
*1984 &ndash; Duffy, Welsh sangster
*1994 &ndash; Marcus Fraser, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
*  79 &ndash; Vespasian, Roman emperor (b. 9)
*1795 &ndash; James Craig, Scots airchitect (b. 1739)
*1832 &ndash; Sir James Hall, 4t Baronet, Scots geologist (b. 1761)
*1836 &ndash; James Mill, Scots historian (b. 1773)
*1876 &ndash; Robert Napier, Scots ingineer (b. 1791)
*1881 &ndash; Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist an academic (b. 1804)
*1891 &ndash; Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German pheesicist (b. 1804)
*1965 &ndash; Jimmy McMenemy, Scots fitbawer (b. 1880)
*1995 &ndash; Jonas Salk, American biologist an medicinar (b. 1914)
*2011 &ndash; Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
*2013 &ndash; Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1926)

## Halidays

* Naitional Day o Luxembourg
* Faither's Day (Nicaragua)
* We Tripantu - Ne'er's Day for the Mapuche fowk in soothren Chile (relatit tae soothren Winter solstice)
* St. John's Eve - Eve o Northren Midsummer celebrations