Today in News History

On June 23, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 1775, Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and author (born 1692) passed away. In 1810, John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company. In 1973, A fire at a house in 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 serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale. In 1983, José Manuel Rojas, Chilean footballer was born. 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 2001, The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured. In 2012, Walter J. Zable, American football player and businessman, founded the Cubic Corporation (born 1915) passed away. In 2013, Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope. In 2013, Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide. In 2018, Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.