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