Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 23

• British East India Company to annex Bengal
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• 1887 - The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park (pictured) as Canada's first national park.

• 1894 - Led by French historian Pierre de Coubertin, an international congress at the Sorbonne in Paris founded the International Olympic Committee to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games.

• float independently of the British Pound
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