On this day: June 23 (opens in new tab)

June 23: Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg Autograph score of BWV 39 1726 – On the First Sunday after Trinity, J. S. Bach led the first performance of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 (page pictured), one of a few new cantatas written that year. 1865 – Stand Watie became the last Confederate general of the American Civil War to surrender to Union forces. 1887 – The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park in Alberta as the country'...