23 June

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 23 June:

1. Born on this date in 1894 was King Edward VIII of Great Britain. This is the one who caused a constitutional crisis by proposing marriage to American divorcée Wallis Simpson. Rather than give up Mrs. Simpson, Edward chose to abdicate, the only monarch of Britain, or any Commonwealth Realm, to have done so. He is one of the shortest-reigning monarchs in British history, and was never crowned.
2. In 2016, voters in the United Kingdom went to the polls to vote in a referendum on whether the UK should leave the EU, and the stupid option won by a small margin. It's been all downhill from there.
3. In 1993, Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Virginia, cut off her husband John's penis after he allegedly raped her, and drove off, lobbing his willy into a field. John Bobbitt was later acquitted of marital sexual assault; Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding by reason of insanity. A third party recovered the willy, put it in ice and took it to the hospital. Surgeons successfully reattached the penis.
4. In 2012, 76 monks were taken to hospital following an attack by a swarm of bees at Chedi Luang in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
5. In 1994, police in Minot, North Dakota, broke up a fight between a husband and wife in the police station car park. Both spouses were armed with chainsaws.
6. In 1611, English navigator Henry Hudson's crew on the Discovery set him adrift in Hudson Bay. Hudson and his crew were never seen again. Hudson is famous for attempting to find a route from Europe to Asia via the Arctic Ocean, and exploring the location of what is today New York City.
7. In 1993, Crocodile wrestling was banned in Israel.
8. In 1976, the CCN Tower in Toronto, the world's tallest free-standing structure, at 555m, opened.
9. In 1735, a phantom army appeared on Souther Fell, a mountain in Cumbria. The same thing happened exactly two years later, and on Midsummer’s Eve in 1745, about 26 people saw the ghostly army.
10. Born this date in 1936 was Richard Bach, US writer, and author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. He wrote: "Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't."

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