Today In History

Today is Friday, June 23, the 174th day of 2017. There are 191 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and their advisers opened a three-day summit at Glassboro State College in New Jersey. The U.S. Senate voted 92-5 to censure Democrat Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut for diverting campaign money to his personal use.

ON THIS DATE

› 1537: Spanish explorer Pedro de Mendoza, the founder of Buenos Aires, died aboard his ship while heading back to Spain.

› 1931: Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on a round-the-world flight that lasted eight days and 15 hours.

› 1947: The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.

› 1950: Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, a DC-4, crashed into Lake Michigan with the loss of all 58 people on board.

› 1972: President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed using the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation sparked Nixon’s resignation in 1974.) President Nixon signed Title IX barring discrimination on the basis of sex for “any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Singer Diana Trask is 77. Musical conductor James Levine is 74. Actor Ted Shackelford is 71. Actor Bryan Brown is 70. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is 69. Actor Jim Metzler is 66. “American Idol” ex-judge Randy Jackson is 61. Actress Frances McDormand is 60. Rock musician Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) is 55. Actor Paul La Greca is 55. Rhythm and blues singer Chico DeBarge is 47. Actress Selma Blair is 45. Actor Joel Edgerton (“Loving”) is 43. Rock singer KT Tunstall is 42. Rhythm and blues singer Virgo Williams (Ghostowns DJs) is 42. Actress Emmanuelle Vaugier is

41. Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz is 40. Football Hall of Fame electee LaDainian Tomlinson is

38. Actress Melissa Rauch is 37. Rock singer Duffy is

33. Country singer Katie Armiger is 26.