Today is the 227th day of 2023 and the 56th day of summer. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1483, the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel was consecrated. In 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened. In 1947, India and Pakistan won independence from Britain. In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon canceled the direct convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold. In 2003, Libya accepted responsibility for the bombing of a…