June 23 Events 229 - Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu . 1266 - War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani , the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships. 1280 - The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of Castile . 1305 - A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge . 1314 - First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn begins. 1532 - Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the "Treaty of Closer Amity With France", pledging mutual aid against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor . 1565 - Dragut , commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta . 1594 - The Action of Faial , Azores. The Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas , loaded with slaves and treasure, is attacked and sunk by English ships with only 13 survivors out of over 700 on board. 1611 - The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay ; they are never heard from again. 1683 - William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania . 1713 - The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia , Canada. 1757 - Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey . 1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld: British, Hanoverian, and Prussian forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany. 1760 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia . 1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey . 1794 - Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev . 1810 - John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company . 1812 - War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war. 1860 - The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office . 1865 - American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory , Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army. 1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer" . 1887 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park , Banff National Park . 1894 - The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin . 1913 - Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran . 1914 - Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta . 1917 - In a game against the Washington Senators , Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth , who had been ejected for punching the umpire . 1919 - Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis ; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia . 1926 - The College Board administers the first SAT exam. 1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane. 1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States. 1940 - Adolf Hitler goes on a three-hour tour of the architecture of Paris with architect Albert Speer and sculptor Arno Breker in his only visit to the city. 1940 - Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada. 1941 - The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania ; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later. 1942 - World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft , a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 , is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. 1946 - The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia , Canada. 1947 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act . 1951 - The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched. 1956 - The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre , transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa . 1959 - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden , East Germany where he resumes a scientific career. 1960 - The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world. 1961 - The Antarctic Treaty System , which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force. 1967 - Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference . 1969 - Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren . 1969 - IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry . 1972 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins. 1972 - Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds. 1973 - A fire at a house in Hull , England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale . 1985 - A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182 , bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard. 1994 - NASA's Space Station Processing Facility , a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station , officially opens at Kennedy Space Center . 2001 - The 8.4 southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII. A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured. 2012 - Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials . 2013 - Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope . 2013 - Militants stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan killing ten climbers , and a local guide. 2014 - The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction . 2016 - The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%. 2017 - A series of terrorist attacks took place in Pakistan resulting in 96 deaths and wounded 200 others.Births 47 BC - Caesarion , Egyptian king 1385 - Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken 1433 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany 1456 - Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland 1489 - Charles II, Duke of Savoy , Italian nobleman 1534 - Oda Nobunaga , Japanese warlord 1596 - Johan Banér , Swedish field marshal 1616 - Shah Shuja , Mughal prince 1625 - John Fell , English churchman and influential academic 1668 - Giambattista Vico , Italian jurist, historian, and philosopher 1683 - Étienne Fourmont , French orientalist and sinologist 1711 - Giovanni Battista Guadagnini , Italian instrument maker 1716 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley , English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales 1750 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu , French geologist and academic 1763 - Joséphine de Beauharnais , French wife of Napoleon I 1799 - John Milton Bernhisel , American physician and politician 1800 - Karol Marcinkowski , Polish physician and activist 1824 - Carl Reinecke , German pianist, composer, and conductor 1843 - Paul Heinrich von Groth , German scientist 1860 - Albert Giraud , Belgian poet and librarian 1863 - Sándor Bródy , Hungarian author and journalist 1877 - Norman Pritchard , Indian-English hurdler and actor 1879 - Huda Sha'arawi , Egyptian feminist and journalist 1884 - Cyclone Taylor , Canadian ice hockey player and politician 1888 - Bronson M. Cutting, American publisher and politician 1889 - Anna Akhmatova , Ukrainian-Russian poet and author 1889 - Verena Holmes , English engineer 1894 - Harold Barrowclough , New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief Justice 1894 - Alfred Kinsey , American entomologist and sexologist 1894 - Edward VIII , King of the United Kingdom 1899 - Amédée Gordini , Italian-born French race car driver and sports car manufacturer 1900 - Blanche Noyes , American aviator, winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race 1901 - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar , Turkish author, poet, and scholar 1903 - Paul Martin Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician 1904 - Quintin McMillan , South African cricketer 1905 - Jack Pickersgill , Canadian civil servant and politician, 35th Secretary of State for Canada 1906 - Tribhuvan of Nepal 1907 - Dercy Gonçalves , Brazilian actress and singer 1907 - James Meade , English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1909 - David Lewis , Russian-Canadian lawyer and politician 1909 - Georges Rouquier , French actor, director, and screenwriter 1910 - Jean Anouilh , French playwright and screenwriter 1910 - Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader, 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1910 - Milt Hinton , American bassist and photographer 1910 - Bill King , English commander and author 1910 - Lawson Little , American golfer 1912 - Alan Turing , English mathematician and computer scientist 1913 - William P. Rogers, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 55th United States Secretary of State 1915 - Frances Gabe , American artist and inventor 1916 - Len Hutton , English cricketer and soldier 1916 - Irene Worth , American actress 1916 - Al G. Wright, American bandleader and conductor 1919 - Mohamed Boudiaf , Algerian politician, President of Algeria 1920 - Saleh Ajeery , Kuwaiti astronomer 1921 - Paul Findley , American politician 1922 - Morris R. Jeppson, American lieutenant and physicist 1922 - Hal Laycoe , Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1923 - Peter Corr , Irish-English footballer and manager 1923 - Elroy Schwartz , American screenwriter and producer 1923 - Doris Johnson , American politician 1923 - Jerry Rullo , American professional basketball player 1923 - Giuseppina Tuissi , Italian communist and Partisan 1924 - Frank Bolle , American comic-strip artist, comic-book artist and illustrator 1925 - Miriam Karlin , English actress 1925 - Art Modell , American businessman 1925 - Anna Chennault , Chinese widow of Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault 1926 - Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior , English microbiologist and parasitologist 1926 - Magda Herzberger , Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust 1926 - Annette Mbaye d'Erneville , Senegalese writer 1926 - Arnaldo Pomodoro , Italian sculptor 1927 - Bob Fosse , American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director 1927 - John Habgood, Baron Habgood , English archbishop 1928 - Jean Cione , American baseball player 1928 - Klaus von Dohnányi , German politician 1928 - Michael Shaara , American author and academic 1929 - June Carter Cash , American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress 1929 - Mario Ghella , Italian racing cyclist 1930 - Donn F. Eisele, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut 1930 - John Elliott , English historian and academic 1930 - Francis Newall, 2nd Baron Newall , English businessman and politician 1930 - Anthony Thwaite , English poet, critic, and academic 1930 - Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny , former First Lady of Ivory Coast 1931 - Gunnar Uusi , Estonian chess player 1931 - Ola Ullsten , Swedish politician and diplomat 1932 - Peter Millett, Baron Millett , English lawyer and judge 1934 - Keith Sutton , English bishop 1934 - Bill Torrey , Canadian businessman 1934 - Virbhadra Singh , Indian politician 1935 - Maurice Ferré , Puerto Rican-American politician, 32nd Mayor of Miami 1935 - Keith Burkinshaw , English footballer and manager 1936 - Richard Bach , American novelist and essayist 1936 - Costas Simitis , Greek economist, lawyer, and politician, 180th Prime Minister of Greece 1937 - Martti Ahtisaari , Finnish captain and politician, 10th President of Finland , Nobel Prize laureate 1937 - Alan Haselhurst , English academic and politician 1937 - Niki Sullivan , American guitarist and songwriter 1939 - Scott Burton , American sculptor 1940 - Adam Faith , English singer 1940 - George Feigley , American sex cult leader and two-time prison escapee 1940 - Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg , Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 1940 - Wilma Rudolph , American runner 1940 - Mike Shrimpton , New Zealand cricketer and coach 1940 - Stuart Sutcliffe , Scottish painter and musician 1940 - Diana Trask , Australian singer-songwriter 1941 - Robert Hunter , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1941 - Roger McDonald , Australian author and screenwriter 1941 - Keith Newton , English footballer 1942 - Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow , English cosmologist and astrophysicist 1943 - Patrick Bokanowski , French filmmaker 1943 - Ellyn Kaschak , American psychologist and academic 1943 - James Levine , American pianist and conductor 1945 - Kjell Albin Abrahamson , Swedish journalist and author 1945 - John Garang , Sudanese colonel and politician, President of Southern Sudan 1946 - Julian Hipwood , English polo player and coach 1946 - Ted Shackelford , American actor 1947 - Bryan Brown , Australian actor and producer 1948 - Clarence Thomas , American lawyer and judge, United States Supreme Court Justice 1949 - Gordon Bray , Australian journalist and sportscaster 1949 - Sheila Noakes, Baroness Noakes , English accountant and politician 1951 - Angelo Falcón , Puerto Rican-American political scientist, activist, and academic, founded the National Institute for Latino Policy 1951 - Michèle Mouton , French race car driver and manager 1951 - Raj Babbar , Indian actor and politician 1953 - Armen Sarkissian , Armenian physicist, politician and current President of Armenia 1955 - Pierre Corbeil , Canadian dentist and politician 1955 - Glenn Danzig , American singer-songwriter and producer 1955 - Jean Tigana , French footballer and manager 1956 - Daniel J. Drucker, Canadian academic and educator 1956 - Tony Hill , American football player and sportscaster 1956 - Randy Jackson , American bass player and producer 1957 - Dave Houghton , Zimbabwean cricketer and coach 1957 - Frances McDormand , American actress, winner of the Triple Crown of Acting 1958 - John Hayes , English politician, Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change 1960 - Donald Harrison , American saxophonist, composer, and producer 1960 - Tatsuya Uemura , Japanese composer and programmer 1961 - Richard Arnold , English lawyer and judge 1961 - Zoran Janjetov , Serbian singer and illustrator 1961 - LaSalle Thompson , American basketball player, coach, and manager 1962 - Chuck Billy , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1963 - Colin Montgomerie , Scottish golfer 1964 - Nicolas Marceau , Canadian economist and politician 1964 - Tara Morice , Australian actress and singer 1964 - Joss Whedon , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1964 - Lou Yun , Chinese gymnast 1965 - Paul Arthurs , English guitarist 1965 - Sylvia Mathews Burwell , American government and non-profit executive 1965 - Peter O'Malley , Australian golfer 1966 - Chico DeBarge , American singer and pianist 1969 - Martin Klebba , American actor, producer, and stuntman 1970 - Robert Brooks , American football player 1970 - Martin Deschamps , Canadian singer-songwriter 1970 - Yann Tiersen , French singer-songwriter and guitarist 1971 - Fred Ewanuick , Canadian actor and producer 1971 - Félix Potvin , Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1972 - Selma Blair , American actress 1972 - Louis Van Amstel , Dutch dancer and choreographer 1972 - Zinedine Zidane , French footballer and manager 1974 - Joel Edgerton , Australian actor 1974 - Mark Hendrickson , American basketball and baseball player 1975 - Kevin Dyson , American football player and coach 1975 - David Howell , English golfer 1975 - Mike James , American basketball player 1975 - KT Tunstall , Scottish singer-songwriter and musician 1976 - Wade Barrett , American soccer player and manager 1976 - Joe Becker , American guitarist and composer 1976 - Savvas Poursaitidis , Greek-Cypriot footballer and scout 1976 - Brandon Stokley , American football player 1976 - Paola Suárez , Argentinian tennis player 1976 - Emmanuelle Vaugier , Canadian actress and singer 1976 - Patrick Vieira , French footballer and manager 1977 - Miguel Ángel Angulo , Spanish footballer 1977 - Hayden Foxe , Australian footballer and manager 1977 - Jaan Jüris , Estonian ski jumper 1977 - Jason Mraz , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1977 - Shaun O'Hara , American football player and sportscaster 1978 - Memphis Bleek , American rapper, producer, and actor 1978 - Frederic Leclercq , French heavy metal musician 1978 - Matt Light , American football player and sportscaster 1979 - LaDainian Tomlinson , American football player 1980 - Becky Cloonan , American author and illustrator 1980 - Melissa Rauch , American actress 1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan , Guyanese cricketer 1980 - Francesca Schiavone , Italian tennis player 1981 - Antony Costa , English singer-songwriter 1981 - Rolf Wacha , German rugby player 1982 - Derek Boogaard , Canadian-American ice hockey player 1983 - Brooks Laich , Canadian ice hockey player 1983 - José Manuel Rojas , Chilean footballer 1984 - Duffy , Welsh singer-songwriter and actress 1984 - Takeshi Matsuda , Japanese swimmer 1984 - Levern Spencer , Saint Lucian high jumper 1985 - Marcel Reece , American football player 1986 - Christy Altomare , American actress and singer songwriter 1987 - Alessia Filippi , Italian swimmer 1988 - Chet Faker , Australian singer-songwriter 1988 - Chellsie Memmel , American gymnast 1989 - Lisa Carrington , New Zealand flatwater canoeist 1989 - Jordan Nolan , Canadian ice hockey player 1990 - Clevid Dikamona , French footballer 1990 - Vasek Pospisil , Canadian tennis player 1990 - Laura Ràfols , Spanish footballer 1991 - Katie Armiger , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1992 - Luiza Galiulina , Uzbekistani gymnast 1992 - Nampalys Mendy , French footballer 1993 - Tim Anderson , American baseball player 1993 - Marvin Grumann , German footballer 2004 - Alexandra Trusova , Russian figure skaterDeaths AD 79 - Vespasian , Roman emperor 679 - Æthelthryth , English saint 947 - Li Congyi , prince of Later Tang 947 - Wang , imperial consort of Later Tang 960 - Feng Yanji , chancellor of Southern Tang 994 - Lothair Udo I , count of Stade 1018 - Henry I , margrave of Austria 1137 - Adalbert of Mainz , German archbishop 1222 - Constance of Aragon , Hungarian queen 1290 - Henryk IV Probus , duke of Wrocław and high duke of Kraków 1314 - Henry de Bohun , English knight 1324 - Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke 1343 - Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi , Italian cardinal 1356 - Margaret II , Holy Roman Empress 1537 - Pedro de Mendoza , Spanish conquistador 1565 - Dragut, Ottoman admiral 1582 - Shimizu Muneharu , Japanese commander 1615 - Mashita Nagamori , Japanese daimyō 1677 - William Louis , duke of Württemberg 1686 - William Coventry , English politician 1707 - John Mill , English theologian and author 1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer , Swiss paleontologist and scholar 1770 - Mark Akenside , English poet and physician 1775 - Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz , German adventurer and author 1779 - Mikael Sehul , Ethiopian warlord 1806 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson , French zoologist and philosopher 1811 - Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida , Portuguese poet and author 1832 - Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet , Scottish geologist and geophysicist 1836 - James Mill , Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher 1848 - Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este , Electress of Bavaria 1856 - Ivan Kireyevsky , Russian philosopher and critic 1881 - Matthias Jakob Schleiden , German botanist and academic 1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber , German physicist and academic 1891 - Samuel Newitt Wood , American lawyer and politician 1893 - William Fox , English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand 1893 - Theophilus Shepstone , English-South African politician 1914 - Bhaktivinoda Thakur , Indian guru and philosopher 1945 - Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian journalist and activist 1953 - Albert Gleizes , French painter 1954 - Salih Omurtak , Turkish general 1956 - Reinhold Glière , Russian composer and educator 1959 - Boris Vian , French author, poet, and playwright 1959 - Hidir Lutfi , Iraqi poet. 1969 - Volmari Iso-Hollo , Finnish runner 1970 - Roscoe Turner , American soldier and pilot 1973 - Gerry Birrell , Scottish race car driver 1980 - Sanjay Gandhi , Indian engineer and politician 1980 - Clyfford Still , American painter and academic 1989 - Werner Best , German police officer and jurist 1990 - Harindranath Chattopadhyay , Indian poet, actor, and politician 1992 - Eric Andolsek , American football player 1995 - Roger Grimsby , American journalist 1995 - Jonas Salk , American biologist and physician 1995 - Anatoli Tarasov , Russian ice hockey player and coach 1996 - Andreas Papandreou , Greek economist and politician, 174th Prime Minister of Greece 1996 - Ray Lindwall , Australian cricketer and rugby player 1997 - Betty Shabazz , American educator and activist 1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan , Irish-American actress 2000 - Peter Dubovský , Slovak footballer 2002 - Pedro Alcázar , Panamanian boxer 2005 - Shana Alexander , American journalist and author 2005 - Manolis Anagnostakis , Greek poet and critic 2006 - Aaron Spelling , American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Spelling Television 2007 - Rod Beck , American baseball player 2008 - Claudio Capone , Italian-Scottish actor 2008 - Arthur Chung , Guyanese surveyor and politician, 1st President of Guyana 2008 - Marian Glinka , Polish actor and bodybuilder 2009 - Raymond Berthiaume , Canadian singer-songwriter and producer 2009 - Ed McMahon , American game show host and announcer 2009 - Jerri Nielsen , American physician and explorer 2010 - John Burton , Australian public servant and diplomat 2011 - Peter Falk , American actor 2011 - Dennis Marshall , Costa Rican footballer 2011 - Fred Steiner , American composer and conductor 2012 - James Durbin , English economist and statistician 2012 - Brigitte Engerer , French pianist and educator 2012 - Alan McDonald , Northern Ireland footballer and manager 2012 - Frank Chee Willeto , American soldier and politician, 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation 2012 - Walter J. Zable, American football player and businessman, founded the Cubic Corporation 2013 - Bobby Bland , American singer-songwriter 2013 - Gary David Goldberg , American screenwriter and producer 2013 - Frank Kelso , American admiral and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy 2013 - Kurt Leichtweiss , German mathematician and academic 2013 - Richard Matheson , American author and screenwriter 2013 - Darryl Read , English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor 2013 - Sharon Stouder , American swimmer 2014 - Nancy Garden , American author 2014 - Euros Lewis , Welsh cricketer 2014 - Paula Kent Meehan , American businesswoman, co-founded Redken 2015 - Miguel Facussé Barjum , Honduran businessman 2015 - Nirmala Joshi , Indian nun, lawyer, and social worker 2015 - Dick Van Patten , American actor 2016 - Ralph Stanley , American singer and banjo player 2020 - Jampel Lodoy , Russian-Tuvan Buddhist lama, Kamby Lama of Tuva Holidays and observances Christian feast day: * Æthelthryth * Marie of Oignies * Joseph Cafasso * June 23 Earliest day on which Feast of Raḥmat can fall, while June 24 is the latest. Father's Day Grand Duke's Official Birthday International Widows Day National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism Okinawa Memorial Day St John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations : *Bonfires of Saint John * First night of Festa de São João do Porto * First day of Golowan Festival * Jaaniõhtu * Jāņi * Kupala Night * Last day of Drăgaica fair United Nations Public Service Day Victory Day
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