1956: Nasser elected President
On the 23rd June 1956, 99.95% of Egyptian voters mark their ballots to elect
Gamal Abdel Nasser as the first President of the Republic of
Egypt. Nasser, who toppled the Egyptian monarchy in 1952 in a military coup, was the only Presidential Candidate on the ballot. In the same
ballot, Nasser’s new Constitution, under which Egypt became a one-party state with
Islam as the official
religion, was also approved by 99.8% of votes.
2005
In
Britain, Prince William graduates from St Andrews University in Scotland.
1992
In America, New York
Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life imprisonment with no
parole. 1985
Sikh extremists place a bomb on an Air India jumbo jet which explodes off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 on board.1972
The British Government announces its decision to temporarily flat the
pound. 196
The first day of the Glassboro Summit Conference between United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and
Soviet Union Premier Aleksei Kosygin in America.
1964
The
Vietnam War: President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that
Henry Cabot Lodge has resigned as ambassador to South Vietnam and that Gen. Maxwell Taylor will be his replacement.
1959
The
German born scientist
Klaus Fuchs, who helped develop the U.S. atomic program and then subsequently turned into a Soviet spy, is released from a British prison.
1955
The Queen Elizabeth ocean liner leaves Southampton despite the best attempts of striking seamen to persuade her staff to join industrial action.1940
The Second World War: Adolf
Hitler surveys notable sites in the French capital, now German-occupied territory.
1915
The First World War: The
Italian army attacks Austro-Hungarian positions near the Isonzo River in the first Battle of Isonzo.
1894
The International Olympic Committee is established in
Switzerland. 1758
The Seven Years War: A Hanoverian army defeats the French at the Battle of Krefeld.1314
Fighting begins between English and Scottish soldiers at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland. 1940
English musician
Stuart Sutcliffe - original member of the British group The Beatles.
1940
British singer Adam Faith1927
American choreographer Bob Fosse1916
English cricketer Sir Len Hutton.1915
English
actor Dennis Price.
1912
Mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing.1894
Entomologist and sexologist Alfred Kinsey.1894
In
Britain, the future
Edward VIII - who abdicates to marry Wallis Simpson - is born in Richmond, Surrey.
