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On This Day, June 23
- 2018: Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.
- 2017: A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others.
- 2016: The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
- 2014: The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
- 2013: Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.