Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 23
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June 23: Jani held in ancient Latvia, Saint Jonas' Festival in Lithuania.
- 1713 - After Queen Anne's War, French residents of Acadia were given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia.
- 1887 - Canada's first national park, Banff, was created.
- 1894 - The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
- 1941 - Lithuanian 1941 independence: Members of Lithuanian Activist Front declared independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1985 - A bomb destroyed Air India Flight 182 above the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 329 on board.
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