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May 23
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'''
May 23''' is the 143rd day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (144th in
leap years). There are 222 days remaining.
Events
*
1430 -
Joan of Arc is captured by the
Burgundy Burgundians while leading an army to relieve
Compiègne
*
1498 -
Girolamo Savonarola is executed on the orders of
Pope Alexander VI
*
1533 - The marriage of King
Henry VIII of England Henry VIII to
Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
*
1541 -
Jacques Cartier leaves
St-Malo,
France on his third voyage.
*
1555 -
Pope Paul IV Paul IV becomes
Pope.
*
1568 -
Netherlands declared
independence from
Spain.
* 1568 -
Netherlands Dutch rebels led by
Louis of Nassau, brother of
William I of Orange, defeat
Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the
Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the
Eighty Years' War.
*
1609 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of
Virginia takes place.
*
1618 - The
Defenestrations of Prague Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the
Thirty Years' War.
*
1701 - After being convicted of
piracy and of murdering
William Moore, Captain
William Kidd is hanged in
London.
*
1788 -
South Carolina becomes the 8th
U.S. state to ratify the
United States Constitution.
*
1805 -
Napoleon I of France Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned
King of Italy with the
Iron Crown of Lombardy in the
Duomo di Milano Cathedral of Milan.
*
1813 - South American
independence leader
Simón BolÃvar enters
Mérida, Mérida Mérida, leading the invasion of
Venezuela, and is proclaimed ''El Libertador'' ("The Liberator").
*
1844 - Persian Prophet the
Báb announces his revelation, founding
BábÃs BábÃsm. He announced to the world of the coming of "
He whom God shall make manifest." He is considered the forerunner of
Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the
Bahá'à Faith.
*
1863 - The
Siege of Port Hudson starts.
*
1865 - A parade is held in Pennsylvania Avenue in
Washington, DC, to celebrate the end of the
American Civil War.
*
1873 - The
Canada Canadian Parliament establishes the
North West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
*
1900 -
American Civil War: Sergeant
William Harvey Carney becomes the first
African American to be awarded the
Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the
Assault on the Battery Wagner.
*
1911 - Dedication ceremony for the
New York Public Library.
*
1915 -
World War I:
Italy joins the
Allies after they declare war on
Austria-Hungary.
*
1923 - Launch of Belgium's
SABENA airline.
*
1929 - The first talking cartoon of
Mickey Mouse, ''The Karnival Kid'', was released.
*
1934 - Near their hideout in
Black Lake, Louisiana,
Bank robbery bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are
ambushed and shot dead by
police.
*
1939 - The U.S. Navy
submarine USS Squalus (SS-192) USS Squalus sinks off the coast of
New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 26 sailors. The remaining 32 crewmen and one passenger are rescued the following day.
*
1945 -
Heinrich Himmler, the head of the
SS, commits suicide while in
Allies Allied custody.
*
1949 - The
West Germany Federal Republic of Germany is established, and the
Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany proclaimed.
*
1958 -
Explorer I ceases transmission.
*
1960 -
Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that
Nazism Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.
*
1962 - Drilling for the
Montreal Metro commences.
*
1967 -
Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the
Gulf of Aqaba to
Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the
Six Day War.
*
1969 -
Rock and roll Rock band
The Who release ''
Tommy'', the first
rock opera.
*
1970 - An outbreak of fire occurs in the
Britannia Bridge over the
Menai Straits in north
Wales contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
*
1977 - Two
terrorism terrorist actions unfold in
The Netherlands: Several dozen
hostages are taken onboard a
train, and about 100 others (mostly children) are held at a Dutch
school. The train siege lasts until
June 11.
*
1985 -
United States U.S. engineer Thomas Patrick Cavanagh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell
stealth bomber secrets to the
Soviet Union.
*
1994 - Series final of
Star Trek: The Next Generation ''
All Good Things'' aired in the USA.
*
1995 - Official announcement of the
Java programming language.
*1995 -
Oklahoma City bombing: In
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, what remains of the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building is imploded.
*
1997 -
Mohammad Khatami is elected as
President of Iran.
*
1998 - The
Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum, with a high margin of three-fourth 'yes' votes to
Northern Ireland.
*
1999 - In
Kansas City, Missouri,
Owen Hart (playing ''The Blue Blazer'') falls 78 feet to his death while being lowered into a
World Wrestling Entertainment World Wrestling Federation ring.
*
2002 - The "55 parties" clause of the
Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by
Iceland.
*
2003 - The
euro exceeds its initial trading value as it hits
USD $1.18 for the first time since its introduction in 1999.
*2003 - The 2nd Tier is founded in
Granby, Connecticut.
*2003 - 25-year-old
Nepalese
Sherpa (people) Sherpa,
Pemba Dorjie Sherpa, makes the fastest-ever ascent of
Mount Everest, in 12 hours 45 minutes. This is broken by his rival
Sherpa Lakpa Gelu only three days later.
*
2004 - Part of Paris
Charles De Gaulle International Airport Terminal 2E collapses, killing five people and injuring three others.
Births
*
1052 - King
Philip I of France (d.
1108)
*
1100 -
Emperor Qinzong of China (d.
1161)
*
1606 -
Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d.
1682)
*
1617 -
Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d.
1692)
*
1707 -
Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d.
1778)
*
1718 -
William Hunter (anatomist) William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d.
1783)
*
1729 -
Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer (d.
1799)
*
1790 -
Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d.
1842)
*
1795 -
Charles Barry , English architect (d.
1860)
*
1810 -
Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d.
1850)
*
1820 -
James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (d.
1887)
*
1824 -
Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d.
1881)
*
1834 -
Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d.
1890)
*
1844 -
`Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'à Faith (d.
1921)
*
1848 -
Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (d.
1896)
*
1875 -
Alfred P. Sloan, American business professor (d.
1966
*
1879 -
Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d.
1966)
*
1883 -
Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d.
1939)
*
1884 -
Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d.
1965)
*
1887 -
Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d.
1963)
*
1888 -
Zack Wheat, baseball player (d.
1972)
*
1890 -
Herbert Marshall, English actor (d.
1966)
*
1891 -
Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1974)
*
1893 -
Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d.
1977)
*
1898 -
Scott O'Dell, American author (d.
1989)
*
1900 -
Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d.
1946)
*
1908 -
John Bardeen, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1991)
*
1910 -
Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d.
1952)
*1910 - Sir
Hugh Casson, British architect and painter (d.
1999)
*1910 -
Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d.
1986)
*1910 -
Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d.
2004)
*
1912 -
Jean Françaix, French composer (d.
1997)
*1912 -
John Payne (actor) John Payne, American actor (d.
1989)
*
1918 -
Denis Compton, English cricketer (d.
1997)
*
1919 -
Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer
*
1920 -
Helen O'Connell, American singer (d.
1993)
*
1921 -
James Blish, American author (d.
1975)
*1921 -
Humphrey Lyttelton, British musician
*
1925 -
Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
1928 -
Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d.
2002)
*
1931 -
Barbara Barrie, American actress
*
1933 -
Joan Collins, English actress
*
1934 - Dr.
Robert Moog, American inventor
*
1936 -
Charles Kimbrough, American actor
*
1939 -
Reinhard Hauff, German film director
*
1943 -
John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
*
1945 -
Padmarajan, Indian film director (d.
1991)
*
1946 -
Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
*
1951 -
Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
*
1952 -
Anne-Marie David, French singer
*1952 -
Marvin Hagler Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer
*
1956 -
Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician
*1956 -
Buck Showalter, baseball player and manager
*
1958 -
Mitch Albom, American writer
*1958 -
Drew Carey, American actor and comedian
*
1961 -
Karen Duffy, American actress
*
1963 -
Wally Dallenbach Jr., American race car driver and announcer
*
1964 -
Allan Kayser, American actor
*
1967 -
Phil Selway, English drummer (
Radiohead)
*
1971 -
Charmaine Sinclair,
Playboy model
*
1972 -
Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver
*
1974 -
Ken Jennings, American game show contestant
*1974 -
Jewel (singer) Jewel, American singer
*1974 -
Monica Naranjo, Spanish singer
*
1977 -
Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
*
1978 -
Scott Raynor, original drummer for
San Diego rock trio
Blink-182
*
1982 -
Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
*
1983 -
Patrick Martin, professional wrestler, more commonly known as Alex Shelley
*
1984 -
Adam Wylie, American actor
*
1993 -
Suzette Rosenwalf, American athelete
Deaths
*
1125 -
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1081)
*
1304 -
Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer
*
1498 -
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (b.
1452)
*
1523 -
Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b.
1466)
*
1524 -
Ismail I,
Shah of Persia (b.
1487)
*
1662 -
John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b.
1605)
*
1670 -
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b.
1610)
*
1691 -
Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b.
1622)
*
1701 -
Captain Kidd, Scottish pirate (b.
1645)
*
1752 -
William Bradford (1663-1752) William Bradford, British-born printer (b.
1663)
*
1754 -
John Wood, the Elder, English architect (b.
1704)
*
1783 -
James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b.
1725)
*
1786 -
Móric Beňovský, Slovak explorer
*
1825 - Ras
Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia
*
1841 -
Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b.
1765)
*
1855 -
Charles Robert Malden, English explorer (b.
1797)
*
1857 -
Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician
*
1868 -
Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b.
1809)
*
1886 -
Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b.
1795)
*
1893 -
Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b.
1805)
*
1895 -
Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (b.
1798)
*
1906 -
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (b.
1828)
*
1920 -
Svetozar Boroević, Austrian field marshal (b.
1856)
*
1933 -
Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (b.
1909)
*1933 -
Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (b.
1910)
*
1937 -
John D. Rockefeller, American entrepreneur (b.
1839)
*
1945 -
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (b.
1900)
*
1965 -
Earl Webb, baseball player (b.
1897)
*
1966 -
Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b.
1902)
*
1975 -
Moms Mabley, American comedian (b.
1894)
*
1981 -
George Jessel (actor) George Jessel, American actor (b.
1898)
*
1986 -
Sterling Hayden, American actor (b.
1916)
*
1989 -
Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian theatre director (b.
1915)
*
1991 -
Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b.
1895)
*
1992 -
Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b.
1939)
*
1999 -
Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b.
1965)
*
2002 -
Sam Snead, American golfer (b.
1912)
Holidays and observances
*
Bahá'à Faith: Declaration of the
Báb
External links
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BBC: On This Day
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May 22 -
May 24 -
April 23 -
June 23 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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