Event:
'Nympheas', a painting in Claude Monet's 'Water Lilies' series, is auctioned today for a price of $54 million; this is only the second-highest price paid for a Monet - another painting in the series sold in 2008 for $80.3 million at auction
More Notable Events on June 23:
1996 Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan
1986 Tip O'Neill, Representative-D-Massachusetts, refuses to let Reagan address House
1976 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure, 555 m, opens
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
1860 U.S. Secret Service created
