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Today in History: June 23
1700 Russia gives up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.

1863 Confederate forces overwhelm a Union garrison at the Battle of Brashear City in Louisiana.

1944 In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploiesti, Romania.

1952 The U.S. Air Force bombs power plants on the Yalu River, Korea.

1966 Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi are dispersed by tear gas.

2020 Germany locks down a second area after a spike in COVID-19 cases in Gütersloh and Warendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, affecting half a million people

2020 COVID-19 cases rise sharply again in America as country records its 3rd highest daily total, more than 35,000

2020 125 pilots grounded by Pakistan International Airlines after revelations many had cheated in exams or held fake licenses

Born on June 23
1912 Alan M. Turing, English mathematician and pioneer of computer theory.

1940 Wilma Rudolph, American athlete.

1948 Clarence Thomas, 108th US Supreme Court Justice (1991- ), born in Savannah, Georgia

1956 Randy Jackson, American bassist, singer, and record producer (American Idol judge), born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1984 [Amie Ann] Duffy, Welsh Singer (Mercy), born in Gwynedd, Wales

JOTD
The Bathtub Test

During a visit to the mental asylum, I asked the director how do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized. “Well” said the director, “we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub.” “Oh, I understand,” I said. “A normal person would use the bucket because it’s bigger than the spoon or the teacup.” “No.” said the director, “A normal person would pull the plug, Do you want a bed near the window?”