Hasina sworn in as Bangladesh Prime Minister
1996 - Shaikh Hasina Wajed of the Awami League was sworn in as Bangladesh’s new Prime Minister. President Abdur Rahman Biswas administered the oath of office and secrecy at the presidential palace in Dhaka. A 20-member Cabinet was also sworn in with the prime minister. Nineteen of the ministers are from the Awami League while Anwar Hussain Manju, secretary-general of the Jatiya Party, was also inducted into the cabinet. Hasina, daughter of the country’s first president Shaikh Mujibur Rahman, is the second woman to lead the country after Begum Khaleda Zia, who was forced out in March by the opposition. Hasina spearheaded the protest movement against the government of Khaleda’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
June 23
1868 - American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes is granted a patent for a device he calls a “type-writer”.
1934 - Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign a peace treaty after a seven-week border war.
1952 - The US Air Force bombs hydroelectric plants in North Korea.
1956 - Colonel Jamal Abdul Nasser is elected president of Egypt.
1961 - The Antarctic Treaty goes into effect.
1979 - West Indies beat England by 92 runs in the final to retain the Prudential cricket World Cup at Lords.
1980 - Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, dies in a plane crash.
1983 - A 21-hour hijack drama ends peacefully in Larnaca, Cyprus, after two teenage Lebanese hijackers surrender to the police.
1985 - Air India Flight 182, named Kanishka, crashes into the North Atlantic off Ireland, killing all 329 on board.
1988 - A landslide hits a Turkish village near the Black Sea, killing about 300 people.
1990 - The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty and changes its name from Moldavia to Moldova.
1993 - The UN offers a reward for capturing Somalia warlord Mohammad Farah Aidid.
1994 - South Africa reclaims its seat at the United Nations.
1996 - Michael Johnson breaks the 200-metre world record by 19.66 seconds.
2000 - Fifteen tourists are killed and three missing in a fire at a historic Australian hostel in north of Brisbane.
2001 - Peru’s fugitive ex-spy Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos, wanted on human rights and corruption charges, is captured in Caracas, Venezuela.
2006 - The US Treasury admits to secret monitoring of banking transactions across the globe after 9/11.
2007 - EU leaders clinch a deal on the voting system in the reformed treaty after Poland accepts compromise.
2013 - Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk a high-wire across the Grand Canyon.
2015 - Daesh (the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) destroys ancient shrines in Syria’s Palmyra city.
