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What Happened on May 23rd This Day in History

Year	Name
2022	Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party is sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia after winning the 2022 Australian federal election, ending 9 years of conservative rule.
2021	A cable car falls from a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, killing 14 people.
2021	Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.
2017	Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares martial law in Mindanao, following the Maute's attack in Marawi.
2016	Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, kill at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen.
2016	Eight bombings are carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people are killed and at least 200 people injured.
2015	At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma.
2014	Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
2013	A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
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.
2006	Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
2002	The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
1998	The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.
1995	The first version of the Java programming language is released.
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.
1971	Seventy-eight people are killed when Aviogenex Flight 130 crashes on approach to Rijeka Airport in present-day Rijeka, Croatia (then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
1971	The Intercontinental Hotel in Bucharest opens, becoming the second-tallest building in the city.
1960	A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
1951	Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement with China.
1949	Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
1948	Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
1945	World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
1945	World War II: Germany's Flensburg Government under Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are arrested by British forces.
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.
1934	American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
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.
1932	In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.
1915	World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
1911	The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1907	The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
1905	The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II publicly announces the creation of the Ullah Millet for the Aromanians of the empire, which had been established one day earlier. For this reason, the Aromanian National Day is usually celebrated on May 23,[3] although some do so on May 22 instead.
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.
1873	The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1863	The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
1846	Mexican–American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
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 Baháʼí Faith; Baháʼís celebrate the day as a holy day.
1829	Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
1793	Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1788	South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
1706	John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.
1618	The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
1609	Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place.
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.
1533	The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1498	Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
1430	Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.

Famous People Born on May 23

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Year	Name
1997	Sam Timmins, New Zealand basketball player
1883	Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1939)
1977	Richard Ayoade, British actor, director and writer
1946	David Graham, Australian golfer
1908	John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1984	Hugo Almeida, Portuguese footballer
1949	Daniel DiNardo, American cardinal
1939	Reinhard Hauff, German director and screenwriter
1837	Józef Wieniawski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1912)
1800	Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Mexican general and president (1855) (d. 1877)

Famous People Deaths On May 23

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Date	Name
1994	Olav Hauge, Norwegian poet (b. 1908)
2006	Lloyd Bentsen, American colonel and politician, 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1921)
1841	Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
1979	S. Selvanayagam, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (b. 1932)
1989	Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian director and producer (b. 1915)
1815	Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (b. 1753)
922	Li Sizhao, Chinese general and governor
1992	Kostas Davourlis, Greek footballer (b. 1948)
1981	Gene Green, American baseball player (b. 1933)
1962	Louis Coatalen, French engineer (b. 1879)