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23 June
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1661 Princess Catherine of Portugal wed King of England Charles II. Portugal gave island of Mumbai to England as present. The British got Bombay as dowry from Portugal.
- 1757 The Battle of Plassey started between Robert Clive, incharge of British army, and Nawab of Bengal, Siraj -Ud -Daula. In this battle Robert Clive won control of Bengal.
- 1921 Munshi Premchand, famous Hindi author, resigned form his post of School Inspector to join Mahatma Gandhi's Non-cooperation Movement.
- 1980 Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician and son of Indira Gandhi, died in an airplane crash shortly after his mother's return to power.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer".
- 1912 Alan M Turing, English mathematician and pioneer of computer theory, was born. He cracked the Enigma code in World War II that was used by the Germans to communicate with their submarines.
- 1934 Italy gains the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.
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