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On This Day in History
June 23  1760 - The Austrians defeated the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.
1836 - The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states. 1860 - The U.S. Secret Service was created to arrest counterfeiters. 1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer." 1902 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple Alliance for a 12 year duration. 1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. 1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Authority was established. 1964 - The burned car of three civil rights workers was found prompting the FBI to begin a search. The men had been missing since June 21, 1964. Their bodies were found on August 4, 1964 1972 - U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. 1985 - All 329 people aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland. The cause was thought to be a bomb. 1993 - Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, VA, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her. 1997 - Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, died in New York of burns suffered in a fire set by her 12-year old grandson. She was 61.
2003 - Apple Computer Inc. unveiled the new Power Mac desktop computer. 2004 - The U.S. proposed that North Korea agree to a series of nuclear disarmament measures over a three-month period in exchange for economic benefits. 2005 - Roger Ebert received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  | 
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