What happend on 23rd June

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24.06
1969

Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren.

1968

74 are killed and 150 injured in a soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.

1967

Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.

1962

Larry Doby retires from the Cleveland Indians to play in Japan.

1960

Japan signs security treaty with the U.S.

1959

A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.

1959

Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).

1958

The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.

1956

Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.

1955

In the Strahov Stadium in Prague the 1st all-national Spartakiáda begins.