Today is Saturday, June 23, the 175th day of 2012. There are 191 days left in the year.

1683 ― William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty ``not sworn to, nor broken"

1775 ― First regatta held on Thames, England

1848 ― Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris

1860 ― U.S. Secret Service created

1868 ― Christopher Latham Sholes patents ``Type-writer"

1944 ― Thomas Mann becomes a U.S. citizen

1956 ― Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt

1972 ― Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate

1986 ― Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House

1989 ― The movie ``Batman" premiers