This Day in History for 23rd May ◀ Apr May Jun ▶ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 188 1059 - Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France 1275 - King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews 1420 - Jews of Syria & Austria expelled 1421 - Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled 1430 - Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne & sold to the English 1493 - King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis 1536 - Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition 1544 - Holy Roman Emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark 1555 - Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV 1568 - Battle of Heiligerlee, Groningen: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, thousands killed 1568 - The Netherlands declare independence from Spain. 1576 - Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory 1609 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place. 1611 - Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia 1618 - 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War. Two Catholic Lords Regent and their secretary thrown out of window - they were not seriously injured by the 70 foot fall. 1644 - Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists 1647 - Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland 1660 - King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England 1667 - King Afonso VI of Portugal flees Pirate Legend William KiddPirate Legend William Kidd 1701 - Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore. 1706 - Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill (1st Duke of Marlborough) defeats French; 17,000 killed 1750 - Carlo Goldonis Il Bugiardo premieres in Mantua 1774 - Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River) 1785 - Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals 1788 - South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution 1813 - South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (The Liberator) 1844 - Declaration of Bab (Bahai festival) (Azamat 7, 1) 1853 - Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859) 1861 - 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia 1861 - Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession from the Union 1862 - Battle at Front Royal, Virginia 1862 - Valley Campaign: Stonewall Jackson takes Fort Royal, Virginia 1863 - Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan. 1864 - Battle of Dallas, GA Military and Political Leader Simon BolivarMilitary and Political Leader Simon Bolivar 1864 - Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting 1865 - -24] Victory parade in Washington, DC (Grand Review) 1865 - Flag flown at full mast over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot 1867 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken) 1873 - 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 1873 - Canadas North West Mounted Police Force forms 1873 - Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time 1876 - 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston) 1878 - Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia 1882 - 6 of snow falls in eastern Iowa 1883 - 9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43 1883 - Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players 1884 - 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39.5 1887 - 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC 1894 - William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal Outlaw Jesse JamesOutlaw Jesse James 1898 - 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco 1900 - Associated Press News Service forms in NY 1901 - 35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21 1901 - Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13 1901 - Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent 1901 - US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo 1903 - 1st automobile trip across US from San Francisco to NY, ended April 1 1903 - 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin 1907 - The single chamber Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session. 1908 - Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die 1908 - Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington 1911 - NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft 1915 - Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WW I 1916 - Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun 1917 - Dutch 2nd Chamber approves 1908 conscription draft 1918 - King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens 1920 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei 1921 - Shuffle Along 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC 1922 - Abies Irish Rose 1st of over 2,500 performances 1922 - Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat Animator Walt DisneyAnimator Walt Disney 1922 - Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films 1923 - Launch of Belgiums SABENA airline: first flight from Brussels to Lympne, England 1926 - Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard 1926 - Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate 1928 - Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die 1931 - Whipsnade Zoo opens in Bedfordshire, England 1932 - Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds 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. 1935 - 1st scheduled night game postponed due to rain (Cincinnati) 1939 - British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 1939 - Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad 1939 - Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland 1939 - Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die 1940 - 1st great dogfight between Spitfires and Luftwaffe 1941 - Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1941 - Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5) 1943 - -24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund 1943 - Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus 1944 - British and Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo, Italy 1944 - Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front 1944 - Operation Buffalo: Allied break out from Anzio bridgehead 1944 - Polo Grounds host 1st NYC night game since 1941 1945 - British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz 1945 - German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British 1945 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 1945 - Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) arrested at Danish boundary 1947 - PC Hooft prize forms for literature 1948 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs 1948 - Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel 1949 - Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day) Baseball Player Joe DiMaggioBaseball Player Joe DiMaggio 1951 - Peter Ustinovs Love of Four Colonels premieres in London 1 2 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 255 1052 - King Philip I of France (d. 1108) 1100 - Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161) 1598 - Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized 1606 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682) 1617 - Elias Ashmole, antiquary 1620 - Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized 1644 - Thomas Eisenhut, composer 1696 - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer 1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and the Father of Taxonomy (d. 1778) 1710 - Francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures) 1718 - William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer 1729 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno) 1734 - Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism) 1735 - Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author 1737 - Louis Francois Chambray, composer 1741 - Andrea Lucchesi, composer 1753 - Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer 1754 - Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter (Napoleon) 1756 - Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer King of France King Philip IKing of France King Philip I (1052) 1759 - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer 1790 - Jules Dumont dUrville, French explorer (d. 1842) 1794 - Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer 1795 - Charles Barry, architect 1799 - Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt) 1812 - Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles) 1813 - Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 1820 - James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis) 1820 - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891) 1824 - Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers) 1828 - Edward Hitchcock, Americas 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College) 1832 - Pieter J B C R van der Aa, Dutch Indologist/geographer 1834 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890) 1837 - James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 1843 - Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer 1844 - `Abdul-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Baháí Faith (d. 1921) 1848 - Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff (WW I) 1848 - Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator 1851 - Antoni Stolpe, composer 1862 - William Dummy Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99 1864 - Louis Glass, composer 1865 - Epitácio Pessoa, President of Brazil (d. 1942) 1866 - Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist 1871 - Sigurd Lie, composer 1873 - Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism) 1875 - Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966) 1879 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966) 1882 - James Gleason, NYC, writer/actor (Bishops Wife, Flying Fool) 1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, Denver CO, actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood) 1884 - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965) 1887 - Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963) 1888 - Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged & Tired) 1888 - Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972) 1889 - José Padilla, Almería, Spanish composer and pianist (La Violetera - City Lights, Ça cest Paris - Moulin Rouge) 1889 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967) 1890 - Herbert Marshall, London, actor (Murder, Razors Edge, Little Foxes) 1890 - Virginia Eames, Ft Davis TX, entertainer 1891 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974) 1893 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977) 1896 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966) 1898 - Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young) 1898 - Joseph Hazen, lawyer 1898 - Scott ODell, American author (d. 1989) 1900 - Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946) 1901 - Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23] 1902 - Mark Lothar, composer 1903 - Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic) 1906 - Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer 1907 - Kenneth Allen, engineer 1907 - Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant Physicist and Electrical Engineer John BardeenPhysicist and Electrical Engineer John Bardeen (1908) 1908 - John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972) 1908 - Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building) 1909 - Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat 1910 - Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Comeon my House) 1910 - Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter 1910 - Hugh Casson CH, architect 1910 - Scatman Crothers, [Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining) 1910 - Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952) 1911 - Boris Kremenliev, composer 1911 - Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society) 1912 - David Barran, CEO (Midland Bank, England) 1912 - John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Restless Gun) 1912 - Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust) 1912 - Samuel Curran, vice chancellor (Strathclyde University) 1913 - Ian Graeme, major-general 1914 - Alec Dickson, founder (VSO) 1914 - Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth) 1914 - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine) 1914 - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher 1915 - Clyde Wiegand, physicist 1916 - M Jean Francaix, composer 1916 - Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright (living legacy award 1995) 1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008) 1918 - Bulent Arel, composer 1918 - Bumps Blackwell, rocker 1918 - Denis Compton, cricketer (England batsman 1938-56 & Arsenal forward) 1919 - Betty Garrett, St Joseph Mo, actress (Irene-All in the Family) 1919 - Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary 1919 - Ruth Fernandez, Ponce, Puerto Rico, singer (When you Return), politician, (d. 2012) 1920 - Helen OConnell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola) 1920 - Sid Melton, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas) 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 6 of 6 1942 - Comic book artist Jack Kirby (24) weds Roz Goldstein 1953 - John F. Kennedys sister Eunice Kennedy (31) weds activist and attorney Sargent Shriver at Saint Patricks Cathedral in New York City 1992 - Once and Again actress Sela Ward (35) weds actor Howard Sherman (42) 1992 - Actress Anjelica Huston (40) weds sculptor Robert Graham (54) 2004 - Singer-guitarist Michelle Branch (21) weds musician Teddy Landau at Isla Pardito, Mexico 2012 - Grammy-winning Spanish pop star Alejandro Sanz (43) weds longtime girlfriend Raquel Perera (37) in Barcelona Famous Divorces Divorces 1 - 1 of 1 1533 - King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragons marriage declared null & void by authority English clergy not the Pope Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 117 1125 - Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies 1304 - Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer 1423 - Benedict XIII, [Pedro the Luna], Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies 1498 - Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence (1494-98), hanged at 45 1523 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466) 1524 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (b. 1487) 1568 - Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27 1627 - Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet/writer, dies 1648 - Luis de Nain, painter, dies 1662 - John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605) 1668 - Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried 1670 - Ferdinando II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610) 1684 - Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48 1691 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622) 1701 - William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at Londons Execution Dock 1752 - William Bradford, English-born printer (b. 1663) 1754 - John Wood, architect/town planner, dies 1783 - James Otis, American lawyer, dies 1785 - William Woollett, engraver, dies Pirate Legend William KiddPirate Legend William Kidd (1701) 1786 - Móric Beňovský, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (b. 1746) 1813 - Geraud Duroc, French general (b. 1772) 1825 - Ras Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia 1834 - Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76 1838 - John W Janssens, gov-gen (Cape Colony), dies at 75 1841 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76 1842 - Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34 1846 - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (b. 1778) 1851 - Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69 1855 - Charles Robert Malden, English explorer (b. 1797) 1857 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789) 1860 - Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies 1867 - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74 1868 - Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809) 1875 - Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78 1881 - Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies 1881 - Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies 1883 - Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies 1886 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795) 1887 - Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74 1891 - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73 1893 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805) 1895 - Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96 1897 - Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back), dies at 34 1905 - Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time), dies at 75 1906 - Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78 1908 - Francois Coppee, French poet, dies 1920 - Svetozar Boroević, Austrian field marshal (b. 1856) 1926 - Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73 American Outlaw Bonnie ParkerAmerican Outlaw Bonnie Parker (1934) 1934 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush at 23 1934 - Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush 1937 - John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla 1937 - John D Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, dies at 97 1938 - Philip Kleintjes, republic leader, dies at 70 1940 - Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies 1940 - Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35 1941 - Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies 1941 - Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45 1947 - C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68 1952 - Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85 1954 - H R Bromley-Davenport, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England), dies 1960 - Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies 1961 - Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53 1965 - David Smith, sculptor, dies Oil Industrialist John D. RockefellerOil Industrialist John D. Rockefeller (1937) 1965 - Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897) 1966 - Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79 1966 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902) 1967 - Philip Coolidge, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler), dies at 58 1967 - Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30 1968 - James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81 1968 - Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72 1969 - Diane Aubrey, actress (Haunted Strangler), dies of heart attack at 79 1969 - Jimmy McHugh, composer (Cant Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74 1969 - Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 1970 - Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68 1973 - Athena Lorde, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek), dies at 57 1974 - Kathleen Cannell, writer, dies 1975 - Jackie Moms Mabley, comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies at 81 1979 - Hubert van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 79 1981 - George Jessel, US comic/toastmaster (Diary of Young Comic), dies at 83 1981 - Rayner Heppenstall, English novelist (d. 1911) 1981 - David Lewis, Canadian labour lawyer and politician (b. 1909) 1983 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84 1986 - Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70 1987 - Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86 1988 - David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73 1989 - Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian theatre director (b. 1915) 1991 - Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies 1991 - Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies 1991 - William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30 1991 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895) 1992 - Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies 1992 - Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered 1993 - James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster-Grindl), dies at 77 1994 - Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82 1994 - Joe Pass, US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65 1994 - Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (b. 1951) 1996 - Dorothy Hyson, actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go), dies at 81 1996 - Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61 1996 - Patrick Cargill, actor (Up Pompeii, Magic Christian), dies at 77 1996 - Rob Hall, New Zealand high altitude climber (b. 1941
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