Notable Historical Events on May 23rd
May 23rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 |
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 Goldoni's "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 (Baha'i 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 |
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 |
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 |
Canada's 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 |
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 Filippino 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 President Taft |
1915 |
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary 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 |
"Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances |
1922 |
Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat |
1922 |
Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films |
1923 |
Launch of Belgium's 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 |
1939 |
Submarine USS Squalus sinks in the Gulf of Maine, drowning 26 men immediately. The 33 remaining crew are rescued from a depth of 243 ft (74 m) by divers using newly developed heliox air systems to prevent the cognitive impairment usually associated with deep dives. The rescue divers are later awarded the Medal of Honor for their bravery. |
1940 |
1st great dogfight between Spitfires and Luftwaffe |
1941 |
Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
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) |
1951 |
Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels" premieres in London |
1953 |
79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8 |
1953 |
WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF |
1958 |
US schools 1st use Cliff's Notes |
1958 |
Mao Zedong starts "Great leap forward" movement in China |
1958 |
Explorer 1 ceases transmission. |
1959 |
"Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 44 perfs |
1960 |
"Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances |
1960 |
"Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24 |
1960 |
Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina |
1960 |
WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast |
1960 |
WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC) |
1962 |
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1962 |
OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life |
1962 |
Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7 |
1963 |
NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000 |
1964 |
Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) |
1965 |
Franz Jonas elected president of Austria |
1965 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
1965 |
Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150 |
1966 |
The Beatles release "Paperback Writer" |
1967 |
Government bans submarines near South Africa |
1968 |
AC Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam |
1968 |
Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London |
1969 |
BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus |
1969 |
Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes |
1969 |
Who release rock opera "Tommy" |
1970 |
Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside US (England) |
1970 |
SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings |
1970 |
USSR performs nuclear test (underground) |
1970 |
A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage. |
1971 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale |
1971 |
Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands |
1974 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1974 |
Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed |
1976 |
Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic |
1977 |
Benin adopts its constitution |
1977 |
Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell |
1977 |
Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 |
1978 |
AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M |
1978 |
General strike in Peru |
1979 |
"Kids Are All Right" premieres |
1979 |
1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly" |
1979 |
Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Düsseldorf |
1979 |
Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy |
1979 |
West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president |
1980 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton |
1981 |
Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage |
1981 |
NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 501 |
1982 |
BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina |
1982 |
Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic |
1982 |
Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles |
1982 |
Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders a saint |
1983 |
Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air |
1984 |
Tottenham Hotspur win 13th UEFA Cup at London against Anderlecht |
1984 |
Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game |
1986 |
US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa |
1988 |
Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990 |
1989 |
3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone |
1989 |
Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe |
1989 |
Lincoln Square in Bronx named |
1989 |
Cleve loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East) |
1990 |
A C Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna |
1990 |
Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion |
1990 |
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26 |
1990 |
NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0 |
1991 |
Last Cubans troops leave Angola |
1991 |
Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0 |
1991 |
San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship |
1991 |
US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion |
1992 |
NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game |
1992 |
President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees |
1993 |
Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1994 |
270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia |
1994 |
Roman Herzog elected president of Germany |
1994 |
"Star Trek The Next Generation" finale airs this week in syndication |
1995 |
47th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks) |
1996 |
Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric |
1997 |
"King David" closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC |
1997 |
Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV |
1998 |
The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes. |
2000 |
Eminem releases 3rd studio album 'The Marshall Mathers LP', is fastest ever selling studio album (Grammy - Best Rap Album 2001) |
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 $1.18 for the first time since its introduction in 1999. |
2004 |
Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others. |
2006 |
41st Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans & Keith Urban wins |
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. |
2013 |
Patrick Roy is named head coach of the Colorado Avalanche, his former team where he won two Stanley Cups |
2014 |
Russia and China veto the U.N. Security Council resolution to establish an International Criminal Court for war crimes in Syria |
2016 |
Indian Climber 3rd to Die on Mount Everest in Recent Days |
2016 |
Peace Corps Coming to Vietnam for First Time |
2016 |
Arriving in Vietnam, Obama Aims to Lure It Away From China |
2016 |
Obama ends arms export embargo on Vietnam |
2016 |
Thailand school dormitory fire kills 17 schoolgirls |
2017 |
At least 19 killed in blast at Ariana Grande concert in British arena |
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