Post by lesbrewer on Jun 23, 2015 17:10:44 GMT
Join us each day posting various events that reached the headlines that would of happened on this day (Depending which day you join us).
This could be as well; well known peoples birthdays or deaths
or pop music releases or films that were released or what ever.
Go back a few years or a few decades or even centuries; the choice is yours. Post as little or as much as you want!
To start, we will see between us what happened on the 23rd June. Here is a few I found..........
2000 - The Cotonou Agreement, a trade and aid framework, is signed in Cotonou, Benin
2003 - Barry Bonds steals second base against the Los Angeles Dodgers, becoming the first player in MLB history to have 500 career home runs and 500 career steals
2004 - Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctor of music degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university
2005 - San Antonio Spurs beat Detroit Pistons 4-3 in NBA finals MVP: Tim Duncan (his third), San Antonio
2005 - 59th NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3
2011 - "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox premieres at the Moscow Film Festival
2012 - Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
2012 - A bus carrying Czech tourists crashes in Croatia killing 8 and injuring 44
2012 - 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
NBA Power Forward Tim DuncanNBA Power Forward Tim Duncan 2013 - 9 tourists and 1 tour guide are killed after gunmen storm a hotel near Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
2013 - 18 Romanians are killed and 32 are injured after a bus crash in Montenegro
2013 - India defeats England to win the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy in cricket
2014 - Claude Monet's Water Lilies is sold at auction for US$54 million
2014 - Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is re-elected President of Mauritania
2003 - Barry Bonds steals second base against the Los Angeles Dodgers, becoming the first player in MLB history to have 500 career home runs and 500 career steals
2004 - Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctor of music degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university
2005 - San Antonio Spurs beat Detroit Pistons 4-3 in NBA finals MVP: Tim Duncan (his third), San Antonio
2005 - 59th NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3
2011 - "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox premieres at the Moscow Film Festival
2012 - Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
2012 - A bus carrying Czech tourists crashes in Croatia killing 8 and injuring 44
2012 - 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
NBA Power Forward Tim DuncanNBA Power Forward Tim Duncan 2013 - 9 tourists and 1 tour guide are killed after gunmen storm a hotel near Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
2013 - 18 Romanians are killed and 32 are injured after a bus crash in Montenegro
2013 - India defeats England to win the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy in cricket
2014 - Claude Monet's Water Lilies is sold at auction for US$54 million
2014 - Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is re-elected President of Mauritania
June Carter Cash was born on June 23, 1929
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1973, 10cc were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Rubber Bullets', the first of three UK No.1's for the band
