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Events on the 23rd of May in history

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23 May 0844 Battle of Clavijo: The Apostle Saint James the Greater is said to have miraculously appeared to a force of outnumbered Asturians and aided them against the forces of the Emir of Cordoba.
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23 May 1059 Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France
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23 May 1275 King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
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23 May 1420 Jews of Syria & Austria expelled
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23 May 1421 Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled
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23 May 1430 Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British
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23 May 1430 Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
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23 May 1430 Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians at Compiegne, who sell her to the British
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23 May 1493 King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis
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23 May 1498 Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
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23 May 1533 King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null and void
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23 May 1533 The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
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23 May 1536 Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition
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23 May 1544 German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark
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23 May 1555 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
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23 May 1568 The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
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23 May 1568 Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
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23 May 1568 Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed
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23 May 1576 Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
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23 May 1609 Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
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23 May 1611 Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia
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23 May 1618 The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
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23 May 1618 2nd Defenestration of Prague; the beginning of the 30 Years War
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23 May 1618 Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle
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23 May 1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
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23 May 1647 Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland
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23 May 1660 King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
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23 May 1667 King Afonso VI of Portugal flees
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23 May 1701 After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London, England.
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23 May 1701 Captain Kidd hung in London after conviction of piracy & murder
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23 May 1706 Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy.
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23 May 1706 Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed
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23 May 1750 Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo" premieres in Mantua
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23 May 1774 Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
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23 May 1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
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23 May 1788 South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
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23 May 1788 South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
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23 May 1793 Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
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23 May 1829 Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
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23 May 1844 Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
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23 May 1844 Declaration of the B
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23 May 1846 Mexican–American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
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23 May 1848 Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator
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23 May 1853 Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
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23 May 1861 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia
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23 May 1861 Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
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23 May 1862 Battle at Front Royal, Virginia
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23 May 1862 Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft Royal, Virginia
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23 May 1864 Battle of Dallas, Georgia
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23 May 1864 Battle of North Anna VA, 1st of 3 days of fighting
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23 May 1865 Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot
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23 May 1865 Grand Review begins in Washington DC
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23 May 1865 Victory parade in Washington DC (Grand Review)
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23 May 1867 Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
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23 May 1873 The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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23 May 1873 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43
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23 May 1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms
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23 May 1873 Postal cards sold in San Fransisco for 1st time
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23 May 1876 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
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23 May 1876 1st National League no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
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23 May 1878 Attorney John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
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23 May 1882 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
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23 May 1883 9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43
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23 May 1883 Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players
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23 May 1884 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39
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23 May 1887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver British Columbia
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23 May 1894 William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal
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23 May 1898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Fransisco
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23 May 1900 American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
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23 May 1900 Associated Press News Service forms in New York
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23 May 1901 35th Belmont Stakes: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21
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23 May 1901 Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13
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23 May 1901 Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
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23 May 1901 US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
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23 May 1903 1st automobile trip across US from San Fransisco to New York, ended April 1
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23 May 1903 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
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23 May 1907 The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
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23 May 1908 Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington
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23 May 1908 Dirigible explodes over San Fransisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
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23 May 1911 The New York Public Library is dedicated.
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23 May 1911 New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft
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23 May 1915 World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
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23 May 1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WWI
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23 May 1916 Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun
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23 May 1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft
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23 May 1918 King Oil / Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens
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23 May 1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Cura
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23 May 1920 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
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23 May 1921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in New York City
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23 May 1921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
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23 May 1922 "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
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23 May 1922 Harry Greb gives Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
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23 May 1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
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23 May 1923 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
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23 May 1926 Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
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23 May 1926 Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a homerun off Wrigley Field scoreboard
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23 May 1926 Lebanese constitution is established under French mandate
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23 May 1928 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
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23 May 1931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England
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23 May 1932 In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which occurred in the city of São Paulo. Their names and surnames were used to form the MMDC, a revolutionary group that would act against the dictatorial government, especially in the Constitutionalist Revolution ("Revolução Constitucionalista", in Portuguese), the major uprising in Brazil during the 20th century.
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23 May 1932 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hour record of 860 miles, 367 yards
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23 May 1934 The American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
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23 May 1934 The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
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23 May 1934 Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66)
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23 May 1935 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati)
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23 May 1939 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
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23 May 1939 British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
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23 May 1939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
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23 May 1939 Dmitri Shostakovich appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad
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23 May 1939 Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
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23 May 1939 Submarine Squalis sinks off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
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23 May 1940 1st great dogfight between Spitfires
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23 May 1941 Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
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23 May 1941 Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5)
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23 May 1943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
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23 May 1943 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
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23 May 1943 In Dr Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his biography of Adrian Leverk
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23 May 1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy
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23 May 1944 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
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23 May 1944 Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead
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23 May 1944 Polo Grounds host 1st NYC night game since 1941
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23 May 1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister
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23 May 1945 World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
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23 May 1945 World War II: The Flensburg Government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
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23 May 1945 British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz
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23 May 1945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
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23 May 1945 Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Chief of Police, committed suicide
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23 May 1945 Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary
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23 May 1947 PC Hooft prize forms for literature
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23 May 1948 Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
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23 May 1948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive homeruns
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23 May 1948 Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
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23 May 1949 The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
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23 May 1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
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23 May 1951 Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.
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23 May 1951 Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels" premieres in London
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23 May 1953 WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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23 May 1953 79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8
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23 May 1953 Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
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23 May 1956 Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers
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23 May 1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Fransisco
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23 May 1958 Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
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23 May 1958 The satellite Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
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23 May 1959 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 44 performances
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23 May 1959 Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
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23 May 1960 "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
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23 May 1960 WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 May 1960 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
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23 May 1960 "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
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23 May 1960 Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
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23 May 1960 WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan Puerto Rico 1st broadcast
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23 May 1960 WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
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23 May 1962 Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 homeruns in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
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23 May 1962 OAS leader General Raoul Salan sentenced to life
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23 May 1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
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23 May 1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
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23 May 1964 Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)
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23 May 1965 Franz Jonas elected president of Austria
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23 May 1965 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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23 May 1965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
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23 May 1966 Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
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23 May 1966 The Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
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23 May 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.
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23 May 1967 Government bans submarines near South Africa
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23 May 1968 AC Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam
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23 May 1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
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23 May 1969 Who release rock opera "Tommy"
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23 May 1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
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23 May 1969 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
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23 May 1969 The Who release the rock opera "Tommy"
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23 May 1970 SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
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23 May 1970 Robert Stephenson's pioneering Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Strait is catastrophically damaged by fire after standing for 120 years.
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23 May 1970 Grateful Dead's 1st perfomance outside of the US (England)
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23 May 1970 San Diego Padres beat San Fransisco Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
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23 May 1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
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23 May 1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale
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23 May 1971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
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23 May 1974 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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23 May 1974 Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
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23 May 1976 Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic
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23 May 1977 Benin adopts its constitution
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23 May 1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
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23 May 1977 Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
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23 May 1978 AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M
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23 May 1978 American League approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15 million
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23 May 1978 General strike in Peru
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23 May 1979 "Kids Are All Right" premieres
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23 May 1979 "The Kids Are Alright" premieres
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23 May 1979 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
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23 May 1979 Borussia M
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23 May 1979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
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23 May 1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
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23 May 1980 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
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23 May 1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
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23 May 1981 NASA launches Intelsat V
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23 May 1982 Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine
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23 May 1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
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23 May 1982 Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic
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23 May 1982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
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23 May 1983 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
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23 May 1983 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afgh
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23 May 1984 Anderlecht wins 13th UEFA Cup at London
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23 May 1984 Detroit Tigers win American League record tying 16th straight road game
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23 May 1986 US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
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23 May 1988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
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23 May 1989 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone
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23 May 1989 Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe
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23 May 1989 Cleveland loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (American League East)
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23 May 1989 Lincoln Square in the Bronx is named
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23 May 1990 A C Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna
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23 May 1990 Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
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23 May 1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,856.26
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23 May 1990 New York Yankees hit 6 homeruns to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0
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23 May 1991 Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Montreal Expos, 2-0
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23 May 1991 Last Cubans troops leave Angola
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23 May 1991 Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Montr
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23 May 1991 San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship
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23 May 1991 US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
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23 May 1992 Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
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23 May 1992 New York Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
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23 May 1992 President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
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23 May 1993 Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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23 May 1994 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia
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23 May 1994 Roman Herzog elected President of Germany
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23 May 1994 Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
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23 May 1995 The first version of the Java programming language is released.
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23 May 1995 47th time opposing pitchers hit honeruns, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
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23 May 1996 Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric
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23 May 1997 "King David, " closes at New Amsterdam Theater, New York City
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23 May 1997 "King David" closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
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23 May 1997 Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV
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23 May 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
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23 May 2002 The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
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23 May 2004 Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
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23 May 2006 Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
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23 May 2008 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
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23 May 2009 Former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide, jumping from a 45-meter cliff in Bongha, Gimhae, South Korea.
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23 May 2010 Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 bystanders are killed.
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23 May 2012 Adam Lambert became the first openly gay artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts, with his album Trespassing.
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23 May 2013 The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
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23 May 2014 Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 13 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
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23 May 2015 The Republic of Ireland votes to legalize same-sex marriage, becoming the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote.
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