Today is Friday, June 23, the 172nd day of 2017. There are 193 days left in the year.

1532 Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

1611 The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson’s fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.

1683 William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.

1757 Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj udDaulah at Plassey.

1794 Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.

1860 The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.

1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer.”

1894 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

1917 In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.

1926 The College Board administers the first SAT exam.

1940 Adolf Hitler goes on a three-hour tour of the architecture of Paris with architect Albert Speer and sculptor Arno Breker in his only visit to the city.

1942 World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.

1960 The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.

1969 IBM announces that effective January

1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry. Watergate scandal:

1972 US President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s investigation into the Watergate break-ins. A fire at a house in

1973 Hull, England which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Dinsdale.

1985 A terrorist bomb aboard Air India Flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.