What happend on 23rd June

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24.06
1947

The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

1944

Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen.

1941

Lithuanian Activist Front initiates Lithuanian 1941 independence from the Soviet Union; it lasted only briefly as the Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.

1940

World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.

1938

Marineland opens near St. Augustine, Florida.

1938

The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.

1931

Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. [3]

1894

International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

1888

Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.

1887

The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park. [2]