By The Associated Press

              - Today is Wednesday, June 23, the 174th day of 1999. There are 191
                days left in the year.

              - On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an
                invention he called a "Type-Writer."
              - In 1836 Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a
                provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.
              - In 1931 aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York
                on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
              - In 1938 the Civil Aeronautics Authority was established.
              - In 1947 the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's
                veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
              - In 1955 Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp," the first animated
                feature filmed in CinemaScope, opened in theaters.
              - In 1967 President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin held the
                first of two meetings in Glassboro, N.J.
              - In 1969 Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the U.S.
                by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren.
              - In 1972 President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman
                discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate
                investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this
                conversation sparked Nixon's resignation in 1974.)
              - In 1985 all 329 people aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 were killed
                when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland,
                apparently because of a bomb.

              - Ten years ago the Supreme Court refused to shut down the
                "dial-a-porn" industry, ruling Congress had gone too far in passing
                a law banning all sexually oriented phone message services.
              - Five years ago French marines and Foreign Legionnaires headed into
                Rwanda to try to stem the country's ethnic slaughter.
              - One year ago President Clinton said the reported discovery of traces
                of deadly nerve gas on an Iraqi missile warhead gave the U.S. new
                ammunition to maintain tough U.N. sanctions against the Baghdad
                government.
 

              *Happy Birthday*
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              - Jazz musician Milt Hinton is 89.
              - Advertising executive David Ogilvy is 88.
              - Former Secretary of State William P. Rogers is 86.
              - Actress Irene Worth is 83.
              - Singer June Carter Cash is 70.
              - Singer Diana Trask is 59.
              - Musical conductor James Levine is 56.
              - Actor Ted Shackelford is 53.
              - Actor Bryan Brown is 52.
              - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is 51.
              - Actor Jim Metzler is 44.
              - Actress Frances McDormand is 42.
              - Actress Karin Gustafson is 40.
              - Actor Paul La Greca is 37.
              - Singer Chico DeBarge is 29.
              - Actress Selma Blair is 27.