June 23

On this day - June 23 1894 - The International Olympic Committee was established 

The international Olympic Committee (IOC) was created during a conference organized by Pierre de Coubertin, who is today consider the father of the modern Olympics. IOC is a non-profit organization which organize the Winter and Summer Olympics. The firs IOC organized Olympic games was hold in Athens in 1896, which was unanimously voted to be the host for the first Olympic Games during the same conference as IOC was established at. Demetrius Vikelas was elected as IOC's first president. The next games were hosted in Paris in 1900.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle, the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well - Pierre de Coubertin

The first ever opening ceremony in Greece 1896