Daily Almanac: June 23, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 6:17 a.m.
SET: 9:21 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 78 °F
LOW: 63 °F

Today is…

• Typewriter Day
• National Pink Day
• National Hydration Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 2016 The UK votes to leave the European Union. Just over half of the electorate voted for “Brexit”, Britain’s exit from the EU. The UK had been part of the union since 1973.
• 1992 Yitzhak Rabin’s Labor Party wins the election in Israel. Rabin became the country’s fifth Prime Minister. For his engagement in a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 (together with Shimon Peres and Yasir Arafat). A year later, Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist.
• 1961 The Antarctic Treaty comes into force. The treaty was the first arms control agreement signed during the Cold War. It sets Antarctica aside as a scientific preserve and prohibits military activities on the continent.

Births On This Day:

• 1964 Joss Whedon

American director, producer, screenwriter
• 1912 Alan Turing

English mathematician

Deaths On This Day:

• 2011 Peter Falk

American actor
• 1995 Jonas Salk

American biologist, physician