GENDER: Feminine

USAGE: French, English, Dutch

PRONOUNCED: de-NEEZ (French), də-

NEES (English), də-NEE-sə (Dutch)

Denise is the feminine form of the French

name Denis, derived from the name of

the Greek god Dionisos, god of the wine.

My birthday is June 23, 1995, this day the phase of the

moon was the following one:

The Moon for Jun 23, 1995

(At Midnight, US Central time, as

viewed from the Northern

Hemisphere)

Illuminated Fraction: 0.120

3.7 days before new moon

Edward VIII

Royalty

Alfred Kinsey

Zoologist/ Sexologist

Zinedine Zidane

Soccer Player

Randy Jackson

Music Producer / TV Personality

Wilma Rudolph

The first American woman to win three

gold medals in one Olympics

Alan Turing

Bob Fosse

June Carter Cash

Clarence Thomas

Frances McDormand

Joss Whedon

And others…

On June 23, 1947, the Senate joined the

House in overriding President Truman's

veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

On June 23, 1894, Edward VIII, the British

monarch who abdicated in 1936 in

order to marry American Wallis Simpson,

was born. Following his death on May

28, 1972, his obituary appeared in The

Times.

1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received

a patent for an invention he called the

"Type-Writer.“

1892 The Democratic convention in

Chicago nominated former President

Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.

1923 Choreographer-director Bob Fosse

was born in Chicago.

1931Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty

took off from New York on the first round-

the-world flight in a single-engine plane.

1947 The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.

1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.

1969 Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.

1992 John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.

1947 The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.

1993 Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated herhusband, John, after he allegedly rapedher.2005Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar RayKillen was sentenced to 60 years in prisonfor the

1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rightsworkers.

2009 "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahondied at 86.

2010 Following Gen. Stanley McChrystal'scriticism of the Obama administration in a Rolling Stone magazine profile, PresidentBarack Obama named Gen. David Petraeus to replace the Afghanistancommander.