Today in History.....June 23

On this day in …

* 1836, Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states

* 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his "Type-Writer"

* 1931, aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane

* 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Authority was established

* 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act

* 1967, President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin held the first of two meetings in Glassboro, N.J.

* 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 led to Nixon's resignation in 1974.)

* 1996, Congressional Democrats unveiled a "families first"
legislative package aimed at winning middle class voters and retaking Capitol Hill

* 2005, former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights worker