Today in News History

On June 23, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 1860, The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office. In 1887, The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park. In 1912, Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (died 1954) was born. In 1938, The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States. In 1941, The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later. In 1951, The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched. In 1969, IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry. In 1980, Sanjay Gandhi, Indian engineer and politician (born 1946) passed away. In 1994, NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center. In 2021, John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and businessman, founded McAfee (born 1945) passed away. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.