Today in HistoryToday is Friday, June 23, the 174th day of 2006. There are 191 days left in the year.

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In 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his “Type-Writer.”

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

In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.

In 1969, Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief US justice by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren.

In 1985, all 329 people aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland, apparently because of a bomb.

In 1996, former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou died at age 77.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.” — Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (1894-1961).