Today is Tuesday, June 23, the 174th day of 2015. There are 191 days left in the year.
1848 — Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris
1868 — Christopher Latham Sholes patents “Typewriter”
1944 — Thomas Mann becomes a U.S. citizen
1947 — Truman’s veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
1951 — British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to USSR
1951 — Most expensive U.S. hailstorm ($1.5 million crop damage and $14 million property in Kansas)
1956 — Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
1972 — Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1981 — NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
1985 — Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
1989 — The movie “Batman” premiers