On This Day - 1973 to 2016
23rd June
1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England, which killed a six year old boy was passed off as an accident; it later emerged that it was the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
1983 - Pope John Paul II privately met banned union leader Lech Walesa, the founder of Solidarity, on a visit to Poland.
1984 - An auction of John Lennon's possessions raised $430,000, including $19,000 for a guitar used while Lennon was with the Beatles.
1985 – A terrorist bomb brought a Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people on board.
1988 – James Hansen testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it was 99% probable that global warming had begun.
1991 – Moldova declared independence.
1992 - New York crime boss John Gotti (the Teflon Don) was sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole.
1996 - The Nintendo 64 went on sale in Japan.
2004 - A U.S. lawyer sued Germany in a New York court for $18 billion as compensation for victims of the Holocaust.
2016 - The United Kingdom held a referendum to leave the European Union, the leavers won 52% to 48%.
1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England, which killed a six year old boy was passed off as an accident; it later emerged that it was the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
1983 - Pope John Paul II privately met banned union leader Lech Walesa, the founder of Solidarity, on a visit to Poland.
1984 - An auction of John Lennon's possessions raised $430,000, including $19,000 for a guitar used while Lennon was with the Beatles.
1985 – A terrorist bomb brought a Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people on board.
1988 – James Hansen testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it was 99% probable that global warming had begun.
1991 – Moldova declared independence.
1992 - New York crime boss John Gotti (the Teflon Don) was sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole.
1996 - The Nintendo 64 went on sale in Japan.
2004 - A U.S. lawyer sued Germany in a New York court for $18 billion as compensation for victims of the Holocaust.
2016 - The United Kingdom held a referendum to leave the European Union, the leavers won 52% to 48%.
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