On June 23, 1763, Josephine, Napoleon Bonaparte’s consort and empress of France, was born in Trois-Ilets, Martinique.
In 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes, a Wisconsin journalist and state senator, received a patent for an invention he called the Type-Writer.
In 1927 choreographer and director Bob Fosse was born in Chicago.
In 1972 President Richard Nixon and his White House chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation.
In 1992 mob boss John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.
In 1993 Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
In 1994 French marines and Foreign Legionnaires headed into Rwanda to try to stem the country’s ethnic slaughter.
In 1997 Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, died in New York of burns suffered in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson; she was 61.
In 2005 former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen got 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
